Walking into the garden, I found my daughter Rosie playing with her dolls.
‘Hug!’ she smiled, wrapping her tiny arms around me.
At six years old, Rosie was obsessed with the movie Trolls and absolutely loved hug time.
She was the kindest little girl and when she wasn’t playing with her Lottie dolls, she was trying to hug either myself, her mum Hannah, 49, or her four siblings, Leo, 14, Poppy, 12, Ixia, 10, and Zebedee, five.
We definitely had a busy household, but life was good.
Rosie is a child with Down syndrome, but we treat her no differently to the others.
To us she is absolutely perfect, and we wouldn’t want to have her any other way.
However, when lockdown was enforced last year, with five kids and
