The trials, tribulations - and treasures - of a trip to...
We booked to fly to the UK later that month but that, of course, never happened. Instead, we kept track of Mia’s growth via photographs and videos from our daughter and WhatsApp video calls. Over eight months we watched from a distance as she got her jabs, discovered her voice (loud and bold), started scooting around on her bum and then crawling tentatively. We fell in love with her over our phones. International travel started again and we booked to fly to the UK, a trip that would span Christmas Day and New Year’s Eve. Daughter Kate and her partner James had moved into the country now a...