You know that God has a sense of humour when you write a blog about having routine and planning and then your other son gets Covid and all that goes out of the window!

Our little two had colds last week and so we did lateral flows on them that came out negative. But as we had my father in laws wedding on the Friday we thought it sensible to do the PCR tests as well, feeling confident they would be negative, but meaning that if one of them coughed at the wedding we could put peoples minds at ease by telling them it’s not Covid.

I’m sure you can guess what happened! One of the tests came back positive. There ensued lots of tears and hand wringing over what to do. Do we all really have to isolate? Should we really miss such an important day in our family? In the end integrity won out. We stayed home and missed a lovely day with family.

There’s so much debate still about what the kindest thing to do is as I wrote in a previous post but I know that, however hard a decision it was, we did the right thing. We protected others and the wedding went ahead without a hitch.

Instead of being there in person we dressed up and stayed home. My littlest even wore a top hat for the occasion!

Here’s a photo of the happy couple. We know they had a lovely day even if we couldn’t be there and we know we’ll have another opportunity to celebrate with them soon.