The circle OF LIFE
Crying with happiness, my dad Dave, then 74, enveloped me in a hug. ‘Congratulations, love!’ he beamed.
‘Another baby in the family,’ my mum Sue, 68, joined in.
It was December 2018 and we were celebrating the news of my first pregnancy.
My partner Jonathan had a six-year-old son.
Our baby was the latest to join the Crease brigade.
See, I’m the youngest of eight.
That meant I’d already got 21 nieces and nephews, plus five great-nieces and nephews, too!
A huge, close family.
And Mum and Dad were always at the
