Oliver turns 16

16 right this moment!

The one who made me a mom!!

Consider them, everybody, after they say time flies by on wings.

It does, simply swifter. Peregrine Falcon quick.

I blinked and may need missed it, like a movie in quick ahead, the plot factors really feel blurry.

However I used to be there, by the early colicky nights that pained us each, the milestones of shifting colleges, new cities, constructing friendships not least, our personal, these miles of cuddles by childhood which grew to become much less frequent as soon as puberty hit and the actual fact I have to stability on a stool to achieve him.

It’s like we’d have role-reversed alongside the way in which however I missed that too as a result of development creeps up on you slowly, like growing old, and earlier than you recognize it, you continue to really feel 16 however have a 16 yr previous son beside you. 

Born at Queen Charlotte’s again in 2010, the hospital was enveloped in uncharacteristic snow for London, even on January tenth, unrelenting, for the three complete days and nights I spent there with the tiny, chubby stranger I’d solely simply met I in some way felt I’d at all times identified. 

Alarmingly, he’s now 6 ‘1, sharp jawed, doe eyed, the double of Jacob Elodi so everybody says, cerebral with a Sixth Type scholarship in his again pocket and a vivid future forward.

He of contagious snicker, charming smile, sturdy sense of self value (that took me 40 years) and most significantly, an ever-enquiring thoughts. Comfortable birthday candy son of mine! We did it. 16 complete years!