30/12/2025
2025 āØ
What a year. The kind that stretches you, softens you and changes you forever.
We started knee deep in big feelings. Selling our family home, the one we built from scratch, held more emotion than I expected, even though the decision had been made months earlier. It felt unsettling and nerve wracking and I questioned our sanity more than once. But the universe clearly knew what it was doing. The house sold instantly, leaving us stoked and briefly homeless. So for the following two months we lived in a beautiful beach house, and some of my favourite memories of the year were made there.
April came and we hit the road. Almost immediately it felt right. Four months of magic through the outback, NT, the Kimberleyās and finally the Ningaloo, with days that made us stop mid sentence and ask, is this actually our life? Every day felt like a pinch me moment. We all grew in ways I didnāt expect, and the kids still say, āremember when we did that?ā which is the biggest win of all.
By August things shifted. Our girl was homesick, I missed my people and we stood at one of those travel crossroads: stop in WA and work for a while, keep going, or go home? We chose one more three month travel stint, tracing the WA coast and across SA to Melbourne.
Melbourne nearly broke me. Two hard weeks of curveballs: I got offered an epic ambassador gig to do marketing for one of the biggest van manufacturers, we sold our van because we couldnāt get it home, bought a new car from Brisbane, parenting solo for the first time all year, adding Sonny to the chaos and finally headed home. The weeks that followed were heavy. Coming back to real life was harder than I expected. Iām grateful to be home, surrounded by our favourite humans, but after a year full of adventure, settling back into the grind hasnāt been easy. Add gastro, covid and basically every illness going and weāve been running in limp mode. So I stopped. Switched off online, cocooned ourselves, slowed everything down.
2026 is going to be big. Thereās a lot quietly brewing. For now, weāre soaking up the slowness, letting this year land before the next chapter takes off.
And honestly, what a year to land. So grateful š¤
