Six months ago, if you'd have asked me what I'd be doing this week, I'd have told you that my boyfriend, his Mom and I would be getting ready to fly back to the UK and have our first
ever joint family Christmas before he and I headed off to an exotic location for beaches, scuba (me) and surf (him).
The conference, a
joint scientific and
family symposium, attracted more than 175 attendees from North America, Europe and Australia — the largest
ever in the history of the event.