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25.01.2022 2019 is over. Another year gone. Another it goes so fast (too fast!). ... Adding a puppy to our family. Reuniting with friends made while traveling, and climbing to the top of Mount Kosciuszko. Moving closer to the beach but further away from family Making the difficult decision to cancel our first overseas holiday, then our Cape York trip, then losing our 4WD and therefore unable to use our caravan, and having to upgrade to a cabin in Cairns as our annual holiday. Visiting the Daintree and snorkelling in the Great Barrier Reef. Walking/hiking/biking 2019 kilometers between us (yes, we made it - yesterday!). Putting the kids back into school (so many mixed feelings). Successfully grew food in the garden, and for the first time, really found a love of gardening and the simple, easy joy it brings to my life. I’ll be doing some turn back times to reflect on all of this, and sharing here (better late than never). To be honest, I’m 2019, I felt like I was smashed by life and adulting, and wishing I could run away in the caravan again, but knowing that when we did that, it didn’t solve all our problems. Forgetting what was important and getting priorities all wrong. Not making time for the things I love. So, in 2020, as a mindfulness exercise as much as a creative project, I am doing a 365 project. One of the things that happened in 2019 was that I stopped capturing our life, except when we were on holidays or on special occasions (and sometimes it was still only on my phone). It might seem like a small thing, but it isn’t. Capturing our family life, the everyday (extraordinary) moments has, in the past, been a way for me to remind myself that there is beauty in every day. It’s been time I’ve given to myself to stop, to look for the beauty, look for the moments, notice them and appreciate them. It’s only now that I realize how much I need it. So, day 1, H and I (and Bella!) spent hours at the beach, we walked and took photos. This is ~ Day 1/365 ~ Happy New Year, everyone. I hope it brings more joy and less busy-ness, more adventures and less stuff, more love and less hate. I hope it brings hope (because the world really needs that), and more importantly, actual steps towards healing each other and our beautiful Mother Earth, who is suffering so much. Remember, each of us can make a difference, no matter how small (a lot of small differences add up to a big difference). It’s better to do something, than to do nothing because you feel like you can’t do it all.
22.01.2022 Absolute bucket list item today (and the kids are super jealous because I went on my own due to budget constraints, which made a good excuse for some solo mama time, and we unfortunately didn’t see turtles when we went to the reef all together) I can’t even describe how much I loved this place - but ESPECIALLY this, watching a turtle swimming about in the water with me (the coral and other fish life was amazing too!) It was incredible! It really stirred something in my sou...l, actually, to feel such a part of this magical, wondrous underwater world just for an hour. I would actually go so far as to say I would recommend visiting Fitzroy Island over going to the outer reef. There’s an amazing (but really tough) hike up a mountain with the best views, other shorter walks, including to Nudey Beach, which was named Australia’s best beach in 2018, snorkelling straight off the beach and heaps of other water activities on offer. No cars, it wasn’t too busy either, and you could do everything in your own time, as long as you made it back to the boat on time. I’ll definitely look at staying at the resort or campground for a few nights next time. For me, this definitely ranks up there out of all the places we’ve been so far. Far North Queensland, in general, has been amazing. It has both of my favorite things - rainforest and ocean There are loads of hikes and safe swimming spots, waterfalls, beaches, wildlife - a nature lover’s paradise! We will be back, and hopefully with Luke and the kids in tow, much turtle and other wildlife spotting will happen (other people today saw sharks and rays, but not me - I did see Nemo though!). Luckily it’s only 10 hours’ drive from our place to Cairns
09.01.2022 We made it up to Bowen for a day trip, before I go on call soon. It was sooo beautiful. It’s hard to imagine the hell that my southern friends, and so much of the country, is going through while we are in paradise, still able to breathe clean air, without threat for our lives and our homes. But I couldn’t help but really, truly think about how lucky we are on this day, at this moment in time. And how much I hope my kids can say the same about their life, their home and the ...world they live in, in 10, 20, 50 years... At least, for now, they have this, and we’ve seen so much of the beauty this country has to offer, and we plan on continuing to discover and explore. There are many places we travelled to that are now burnt, still burning - and quite probably changed forever. I’m thankful we got to see them, and that our children got to see them. I hope that those places, and the people that live in them, are able to recover, and that this will be the wake-up call that is needed for us to protect Mother Earth and all that inhabit this wonderful world we’ve been given
06.01.2022 More life. My mission of making life something I don’t want to go on holidays to escape from. I think it’s working. We are surrounded by beautiful places, and close to both ocean and rainforest. ... I’ve finally worked out life so at least the weekends are free to explore and/or rest - FREE TIME, people, this is BIG! - and I am less busy on other days too (especially in the school holidays). It’s really nice, and it’s worth persevering for. So many years I’ve spent consumed by the busy-ness, and so many years I’ve struggled against it, but I’m finally feeling like it’s coming a bit easier. Talk to me again when school (and extracurricular - though we’ve cut back) starts back though For now, I’m LOVING the holidays! I’m still working, but only 3-4 days a week, and only 2.5 days for someone else, so the rest I get to be my own boss. I’m finding joy in our local hangs, our beach walks, the garden, just...life. I think finding joy in life every single day, creating a life filled with things that truly make you happy, is what it’s all about. I gave myself a word of the year, this year. It’s THRIVE. Because I’m tired of surviving. I don’t want to survive life, I want to ENJOY it and I want to THRIVE! Not in big fancy ways, but to just feel like my life is full and rich and fun, and that as a person I am nourishing myself physically and emotionally in order to thrive and be my best self.
