I’m sad.<\/p>\n
My little girl is sad and I’m at a loss as to what to do. It’s because of us and our upcoming #yTravelOz road trip.<\/p>\n
She’s been excited about it for a long time and we’ve worked hard to keep that up for her, sharing our plans and talking about how great life will be on the road.<\/p>\n
But, now it has hit her what leaving means, saying goodbye to her friends and family. She does her best to stop her bottom lip from quivering and the tears from falling. It’s breaking my heart.<\/p>\n
I hold her close and tell her it’s okay to feel sad and to cry it out. I tell her I don’t know what else to say. I share with her all the positives of going away and why Mummy and Daddy are doing it. We talk of how exciting it will be to be together all the time, the grand adventures we’ll go on, and now Mummy gets to be her teacher. And how great it will be when Nan and Pop come to visit.<\/p>\n
I share how I understand how hard it is to leave those you love and how it hurts your heart. Mummy has done it over and over again.<\/p>\n
“But, you know Mummy’s friend Bec? Well she’s my oldest friend and I’ve left her many times to travel, but she’s still my friend. You can never lose a good friend, and there’s so much space in your heart to make many more.”<\/em><\/p>\n I try to explain why we are leaving to travel around Australia. But, how do you say because if we don’t go soon, Mummy’s spirit will break<\/em>. Does it mean that I’ll break hers in the process of trying to fix mine?<\/p>\n I can only hold onto what I know and what those who have done this before have shared with me.<\/p>\n “It’s truly the best thing we’ve ever done.”<\/em><\/p>\n I think I know what the best thing is and I see the bright future and then my baby’s eyes well and I realize I don’t know anything.<\/p>\n I can only clasp my hands together and pray I’m not a spirit breaker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’m sad. My little girl is sad and I’m at a loss as to what to do. It’s because of us and our upcoming #yTravelOz road trip. She’s been excited…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11792,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,16],"tags":[871,111,173,21],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n