Grandma for one day
Jul 14, 2020
4 minutes
WORDS: FIONA KINLOCH, TRACY GAYTON.
Scrambling for my phone, it would have been impossible to have dialled my mum’s number any faster. It was May 2017 and after eight months of trying with my partner, Paul, then 34, a pregnancy test had come back positive. ‘We’re having a baby,’ I gushed the moment Mum, Elizabeth, then 70, answered, and we burst into excited chatter about me becoming a mummy and she a grandma.
I grew up in a tight-knit family, sharing some of the happiest times with my brother, James, Mum, and my dad, Graham. Sadly, Mum and Dad split when I was 18, but Mum and I propped each other up as we adjusted to life without him around as much.
Even when I left home
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