She and her friend are trying to get away for a two-week break over Christmas but on Saturday evening the airline confirmed the flight would not be leaving before Sunday.
This Christmas the family will gather once more around the centrepiece of their lives, the TV, settling down to an evening's viewing of an Animal Hospital Christmas Special.
Later in the week, I was also part of the tens of thousands of people on the streets near Rockefeller centre for a cold but nice evening to watch the new Christmas tree.