Oliver turns 16

16 in the present day!

The one who made me a mom!!

Consider them, everybody, once 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 way of 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 way of childhood which turned much less frequent as soon as puberty hit and the actual fact I must steadiness 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 progress creeps up on you slowly, like growing old, and earlier than you understand it, you continue to really feel 16 however have a 16 yr outdated son beside you.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 entire days and nights I spent there with the tiny, chubby stranger I’d solely simply met I one way or the other felt I’d all the time identified. 

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

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