If you follow us on Instagram you will have seen this week our latest reel talking about being a long distance daughter and long distance friend.
A combination of listening to Crowded House ‘you better be home soon’ on the radio today and hearing this audio and words today by @josiebalka hit my little long distance daughter heart. Absolute blubbering mess 🤦♀️
In truth I don’t get as homesick as I used to, it has been almost 19 years since I left my Aussie shores and made a life in the UK but I do miss my home home, my family, my friends, my country and even the person that I used to be there.
I have to watch from afar the Christmas’s, birthdays and celebrations that we aren’t there for, seeing everyone grow up and change from the other side of a screen or on the trips we all make and it’s hard but it’s also hard knowing my choice to live here, means my family and friends just get the same from my life snippets of Dottie growing, seeing our adventures and life from the other side of a screen or the stories we tell. It’s not easy but it’s the life we choose and the life we’ve got. It’s a privilege.
As a parent now I both dread and hope for the day Dottie does what I did to my parents and goes off into the world to be a long distance daughter. The apron strings don’t go that far for her now IYKYK but one day my heart will break and swell at her getting to have the amazing experiences I get to have by having two homes who always welcome you with open arms.
This feeling of two homes is what inspired and help feed into the ideas of a Christmas decoration that is for those of us with two homes, those of us away from loved ones and those that are missing someone special or a special place. Our Christmas wishes bauble is personalised with two place names and we can customise the text from 'we miss you' to something else if required. The perfect little decoration to send to a family and friends across the miles to remind them that just cause you aren't together you are still thinking about them.