Across the seas and land I go…

Next week I will be blogging from the homeland as I am off on an adventure to Australia for a few weeks. I am off to get some happy soul family time with the mumma and siblings and to reconnect with my long lost summer wardrobe.

As much as I will miss my Canadian, with us being our all too familiar 12522 miles apart, I am really looking forward to spending some quality time with my family and friends again. 7 months is a really long time to go without giving your Mum a hug.

I’m super excited to go home and see all the people in my life again but it’s a strange feeling to be leaving my love behind. He had to do this a few times when we were living in Sydney and I was on the other end, watching him leave while I stayed behind and was left alone. So to now be the one doing the leaving feels almost bittersweet.

I’m planning on lots of photography and photo shoots when I’m home in Sydney and will hopefully get to the beach and to wander around the markets that I miss. I’d like to do a few “Wandering Neighbourhoods” from Sydney as that was something I never really did at home.

I’ve also got some happy photography news coming which I was hoping to share with you this week but it hasn’t arrived yet, so that may have to wait!

See you on the other side, unless of course my news arrives. Wink, wink.

No matter how homesick I may get a few days before Christmas, my mood can always be lifted by popping on the Charlie Brown Christmas Album. There is something in those piano notes that just cheers me up and forces me to take a good, hard look at myself.

Spending my first real Christmas away from home makes me realise what I really want from life and how I want my Christmases of the future to be. No Christmas as an adult can ever live up to the Christmases your parents made so full of merriment for you as a kid, but somewhere inside of me, I’ve never let go of the magic of Christmas.

Late last week I received a Christmas package from my Mum and as happy as it made me, I know it was hard for her to have that be all we have this year. She told me that she has put some presents for Sean and me in our stockings at home in Australia and I absolutely love the fact that even though we can’t be there, our stockings will be hung just as always.

Being with my Canadian sweetie at Christmas is the best thing I could hope for and getting hugs from him at this time of year are always extra special. I love that he is able to show me his Canadian Christmas and all the magic of a time that he has grown up with. I really am oh so blessed to have him in my life and tomorrow he is taking me somewhere magical and snowy.

I will hopefully be back here again one more time before Christmas. I hope you’re enjoying your holiday week!

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