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  • Pick Me Up!

    Wrapped IN LOVE

    Dec 09, 2021 5 minutes

    I’M SO GRATEFUL

    Waving goodbye to my fiancé Nick, now 39, I stepped outside and shut the door.

    It was Christmas Day 2009, and I was going for a stroll before we set off on a drive from our home in Sydney to Newcastle, Australia

    We were going for Christmas lunch at my uncle’s house.

    I was 32-weeks pregnant at the time, and I thought a quick walk would prevent my legs from seizing up on the journey.

    Nick was putting up a trampoline that our daughter Ashlee, then two-and-a-half, got from Santa.

    It was a beautiful Australian Christmas morning and I felt full of love and excitement for the year to come.

    You’ll be with us for the next one, I thought to myself, rubbing my kicking bump.

    Nick and I couldn’t wait to grow our family – we’d always wanted a house

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