Can I have a baby sister?’ my little grandson Noah, then three, was always asking me.
My daughter Mayara had given birth to sweet Noah at just 18. She wasn’t in a position to care for Noah at the time, so we decided I’d raise him while she worked and built a career.
So he’s lived with me since he was just a few months old.
Before Noah was born, it’d been easy to imagine my days of bringing up young children might be finished, with my son