Our October

I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday..

I decided to post a quote to start this blog post in which really stood out to me this month.

Sometimes in life we have to make choices we ourselves or other people are not going to like or understand. We have to do this throughout our lives to protect ourselves or our family as parents or as individuals. Navigating life does not come with a manual, but by trial and error and only when we find peace do we realize that the hard choice we had to make was actually worth it.

This sums up my October. 

The most peaceful month this year.

The month started with a late night drive to St Kilda pier.

The views were beautiful as David and I walked hand in hand.

The cool breeze off the water was so beautful

Photos below..

This month was a fun one for Justine! 

Justine was rewarded with Student of the week at school:

She went on her very first school camp:

And couldn't wait to tell us all about it over dinner:

Work-wise, it was actually a pretty good month. My boss has put pressure on me to spend more money on my groups as we have funding specificaly for me to run them and to also do an event calendar to have more of a plan for up-coming groups. 

This month our Aboriginal Yarning Circle enjoyed creating crocodiles out of clay:

October also had be attend my first Health Conference, I took so much away from the 2022 Ngar-wu Wanyarra Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Health Conference at the University of Melbourne - Department of Rural Health in which my coworker Gillian Thatcher-Ind and I attended on the lands of the beautiful Yorta Yorta people yesterday. Listening to what our people are doing for our people in the health sector was so encouraging and inspiring. We as First Nation people need to be role modelling and leading the way for our youth. As Adam Goodes said “You can’t be what you can’t see” Teaching our next gen should be our priority as it was in our culture before colonization. We need to educate ourselves and equip ourselves to make changes where changes need to be made and be the strong black leaders using our voices to call out rascism and injustices of our people. So much to take in and reflect on after yesterday but so proud of what we are doing not only for but with our people!

As we all know, as our children get older it gets harder and harder to spend time together or find things we all enjoy doing together.

This month, the only way I could entice my kids to come out with us is if it was for scary movies.

Something about enjoying scaring the heck out of thier mother is really appealing for them both so this month we went to a few different movies and a theatre production together for Friday night fright nights begining with the movie Smile. Click here for movie trailer.

And then there was Ghost Stories, click here for reviews.

And we also went to my Cinema Nova to see Bodies, Bodies Bodies which scared all of us and had Nevaeh wanting to leave the cinema. Trailer can be found here.

While David went to see his daughter one Sunday afternoon Nevaeh and I went fishing:

I cant tell you how much the ocean calms and grounds me.

Another big moment this month was finally getting out with my girlfriends again after 3 years, it was so much fun enjoying belly laughs over dinner and catch up on all the goss over drinks:

And to top of a really positive month, we all took Justine to the Arcade in Melton:

Looking forward to next month where we have three birthdays, a local festival and Melbourne Cup.

What are you looking forward to in November?