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CUT!! And thats a wrap folks......

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SNAPSHOT  by Rana Well this is it folks! 2 years of planning, saving and preparing for this trip of a lifetime and in what seems to be a blink of an eye, it is all over - we arrived home feeling foreign, changed and started to contemplate how we could make sure that the experiences we had would hold meaning for us as a family..... Without a doubt this has been the most amazing, challenging, invigorating and confronting experience of our lives. W hat had begun as an opportunity to see all the corners of Australia, follow the waterways that are cradled by dry barren desert, luscious rainforests, golden beaches and to embed ourselves in its history and culture, slowly become a story about us as a family. We savored every moment of watching our children discover it all, and yet this trip soon revealed itself to be so so much more than even we expected....life is so fragile and yet we don't have any idea of the power we have in our own hands. We created two chi

Week Four | Silver Linings

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  S NAPSHOT I can't remember the last time in my life I didn't feel safe.....its an unusual feeling and for someone with a rather colourful imagination I have had to rein myself in this week - I have two little girls constantly searching for my reaction on people and situations.  Everything is new to them (and to me sometimes!)....... We have seen various shades of dark and light this week - the best and worst of a few different towns....the stark realisation of how privileged our family is.......we have a lovely home, good jobs and wonderful friends and family......yes we work hard for it but our children have never known or witnessed hardship. They certainly have now. We navigated our way through the minefield of questions.......and came out the other side - compassion is an under rated quality but something they showed in bucket loads.....there was an element of guilt for me witnessing that hardship then swinging around and spending what seemed a large amount o