• My husband, kids, and I spent Christmas traveling instead of visiting with our extended family. • To create magic for our kids, we had presents shipped to us and decorated our whole caravan. • It wasn't a traditional holiday, but it was a blast and we loved video calling other family members.

Christmas is a really, really big deal in our house.

It's when our close-knit extended family gets together to celebrate, feast, and spend time with one another.

However, my husband, two young kids, and I spent last Christmas sitting in our caravan on a remote beach in South Australia, just the four of us.

It was a far cry from the holidays before. But after years of deliberating, we'd just recently packed up our lives and belongings and headed toward the Australian outback for a yearlong ad

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