Emma.

We hardly knew Emma when we got here, she and Tom met in Kula Lumpur. Tom was living in Sydney and Emma (born in Yorkshire) was living in Hong Kong, they got married overlooking Sydney Harbour then left for England not long after… that was two years ago. At least we had met Emma before she married our Tom, unlike our son –in-law Tim whom we met at Sydney Airport two months after he married our Nerys.

Emma is a dancer and choreographer, we can tell how much she loves her work when she has something special coming up… she never stops dancing in her head as it were, she teaches at a couple of Dance Schools and local schools and is much adored by her pupils if the family across the road from us is anything to go by… Emma taught one of the girls at a Holiday programme not long ago. Emma has put on a few shows here in England while we’ve been here as well as taking Abi overseas to do some big productions in Dubai, Hong Kong and Thailand.

I don’t think I had any preconceived ideas about whom our Tom should or would marry or not marry but with Emma he has won the Jackpot many times over she is a lovely, very special person, one in a million, a gem among gems and all the clichés one can thing of… to put it bluntly… he is very bloody lucky to have found her and together they are just perfect and a joy to be with.

The first time I realized just how much I love Emma was when Tom was preparing for one of his trips OS, he was fluffing about in a nervous mess trying to find his music while she quietly packed his bag, found his credit card, his phone, settled his nerves, changed Abigail’s nappy, cooked a meal, did the washing, cleaned the windows, vacuumed the floor, made the beds all the while going over a dance routine she had to do that evening………. Okay… Okay… I’m getting carried away now; domesticity isn’t really one of Emma’s passions LOL… Tom, Abi and dancing are though!

Let not those of you reading this think that there are no flaws with our Emma… there are and I’m going to embarrass her here by mentioning a few… there was the time she put a new breadboard in the dishwasher, it broke in two but all she said was, ‘I learn a lot with my mistakes!’ LOL… then there was the time she was going out to get keys cut for their home for us, something that was going to happen in week 1, it was now about week 8! She packed Abi up into the pram and left the house without any keys! Tom was up North with David buying our car but he’d lost his keys somewhere in the house days ago! To pay Tom credit with no fuss, he arrived home climbed over the back fence, got a ladder and climbed upstairs into the bathroom window… I won’t tell you how many times credit cards, phones, keys and music get lost they all get found in the end so what does it matter! We love Emma to bits!