
“I know now that everything changes and it’s usually too quickly.”
Now that my firstborn is eight years old I can truly appreciate this statement that I wrote when he was only four. We have moved through so many phases, and currently we are smack-bang in the middle of the ‘I’m too big for cuddles’ stage. (Sometimes anyway!) Of course it’s sad, but I try to hold onto the bigger picture – the need for him to begin to assert his independence, to move out into the world. I console myself with the willing warmth and delicious softness of my ‘baby’ boy – now five!