Celebrate when you can

Next week sees one more celebration that happens in extreme lack of proximity.

I'd been looking forward to celebrating my mum's 90th birthday in person. But it's not to be.

Now I am not writing about this for sympathy. So many people have so many similar and more heartbreaking stories than mine.

But when we can finally get together, I want to celebrate every milestone we missed. The happy and the sad. All the births, funerals, birthdays, engagements, weddings, graduations, festive holidays that we couldn't do in person.

I really want this celebration to have a name? What would this ONE celebration THING be called?

Gayle Smerdon