But…how?????
Fourteen years ago (ignoring the time-difference between the UK and Canada), I was in hospital, experiencing the beginning of the induction of the labour of my first child. Nothing would happen overnight, but I would spend the following day in labour, and give birth shortly after midnight.
This evening after dinner, that first child was given an electric shaver, as a birthday gift.
I can’t believe it’s been fourteen years since I first looked into Barney’s face. I remember being awed by the process which started with an ovum and a sperm, and produced a baby. I’m still awed by that process, but I’m perhaps even more astonished at how that baby turns into…well, almost a man.
Fourteen years. A lifetime. And somehow, also, the blink of an eye.
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Happy Birthday Barney. And a razor? Please stop scaring me *whimper*
aww, congratulations to you all on this milestone birthday of the boy-man born at the magical hour of midnight
It is scary, isn’t it?! I felt that way when Josh was 13 last month – and he doesn’t need the razor yet (though he IS looking kinda “fluffy”!).
Suddenly, I look at him and see a young man. *shiver* scary and oh so AWESOME too! I look at him and find the same sense of awe and amazement actually that I felt looking at him, my firstborn, and thinking wow, I had something to do with that!
Even though these days it is more “he’s like this despite me, rather than because of me”! xx
ITA: awesome is an excellent word to use. I feel the same way about our five year old but I am sure I will feel it even more strongly as you do by the teen years. It is both wondrous and scary to contemplate all at the same time so I shall get back to enjoying now as practice for enjoying it then.
I wonder if our feelings will change once our children are adults? Or will it just be different? The hormone-driven growth of the brain/body finishes at about age 20? or does that just develop in a different way then?