A bittersweet goodbye ...

Months and months after a very sudden and shocking departure from
Hamilton island, and as this roller coaster year draws to a close ... Ill sneak a moment to reflect and conclude. Looking back I'm so glad I forced myself to document our last few months spent up in the island ... It was an amazing experience for our family and now reading some of this i can again appreciate that we literally were living in our own little paradise. (I'm sad we didn't get to share it with more of our friends and family)

How quickly The memory does fade, and so I'm glad to have this little record of our lives up on the island both for myself and of course for the girls.



This year has been such a huge year for us, I feel like its been a year for learning, challenging and just surviving .... I learned that everything can change in a moment ... You can go literally from heaven to hell in a heartbeat .... And we really did just that.

The pain of those weeks spent with our little sunshine suffering I cannot even begin to describe, because there are no words. It was a nightmare realized for any parent, and we of course were no exception ... My angel was just that through it all, she was so brave, so strong, so sweet .... Never ever more proud to be that little girls mother ... It was her fighting spirit that got us through .... And through it all we did come, healed and helped by phenomenal family and friends, people that put their lives on hold and literally saved us, picked us up in those moments of hopelessness and made it so we could just get our baby well ... Thank you, a thousand times, thank you.

And now many months on, with our strong little sunshine smiling and well ... Settled back into a beloved little home filled with happy little memories
.... Enough time passed with our family feeling happy, healed and whole again. I feel as though only now can I properly conclude and appreciate how special our time was on that island, what an amazing part of our journey it was .... I love how the girls light up when they talk about their time there, I love that we could give them that ... Their own little paradise, cemented in their childhood memories forever .... The adventures dewdrops and sunshine on the islands xxx


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