Well it’s official. After 24 hours of flying West, I’m home.
With mixed feelings.
It’s tough leaving someone you love for someone you love. And it’s tough to leave a home you adore for a home you adore. Will I ever get used to having my heart stretched across the globe?
Here is a collection of little moments from my time back home. I gathered these moments in my diary, and although I didn’t have time to post, I wrote down my post ideas and thoughts as they came to me. And this one is the start of many to come, I hope you enjoy…
waking up to the call of the kookaburras.
sitting, chatting and laughing on the porch with my cousin.
finding memories around every corner.
wearing a singlet on a winter’s day…
spending many precious moments with this little one: my new goddaughter…
drying my cream cashlama cardigan in the warm winter sun…
doing my washing in a laundry room.
driving along pittwater road and seeing glimpses of ocean everywhere.
seeing the yellow wattle bloom and appear luminescent against the blue blue sky.
sun-drying my hair while sipping tea with manuka honey…
snacking on vita wheats with butter and vegemite.
seeing ocean behind and ocean in front…
seeing palm trees in the landscape.
radio hopping and finding acdc’s thunderstruck. turning it up LOUD.
laughing at Ed Kavalee. And wondering, what is it about his voice that I adore.
coming home with sand in my shoes…
indulging in a hot bath nearly every evening while listening to the eucalypts sway in the night breeze…
and being reminded by each moment that australia truly is an amazing place.