Josh and I met in our early 20’s at his Birthday Party. He had traveled from Western Sydney to my hometown on the Mid North Coast with his mates to celebrate. A mutual friend introduced us, and at the end of the night, Josh walked me to my taxi. I (unknowingly at the time) shut the taxi door on his finger. Months later, when we met again, his fingernail was still purple.

He was ”Woodsy” and I was ”Bee”. Maybe deep down, we still are.

In the early years of our relationship, we loved listening to Jack Johnson. One of our favourites was Angel. Four kids later, his lyrics – ”you gotta be careful when you’ve got good love, cause them angels will just keep on multiplying” – feel truer than ever. Together we created a life: 4 kids, a business, side hustles, a huge home with acreage, investments and copious amounts of stuff. A life SO BIG it was swallowing us whole.

Then, one day while folding mountains of washing, I looked at Josh and asked, ”are you actually enjoying this life? Like are you having a good time?” He wasn’t. And the truth was, I wasn’t either. We had abandoned our values, our hopes for what life together could be. We didn’t even believe in the life we’d created, we were just surviving it. Working six long days, sitting up late doing book work once the kids went to bed, maintaining the house and property on our ”day off”, raising kids we barely had time to enjoy… we had become people we didn’t want to be.

So this is our leap of faith. We sold the house, got rid of the stuff and now its just us…
Woodsy, Bee and our four ”angels”. This is our next chapter: living fully, laughing freely, and loving each other deeply – through travel, nature, and the everyday adventure of family life.

Come along!
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