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To feel it hasn’t gone fast

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alloftheothers · 17/04/2025 08:35

DS(4) got his school place yesterday.

I’m surrounded by ‘hasn’t it gone fasts’ on social media which obviously take with a pinch of salt but also real life. It’s gone so fast, where has that gone, hasn’t it flown by.

I seem to be a lone voice in thinking ‘no.’ Light years have passed since I was pregnant with DS! It feels like ages since I was pregnant with him and he was a baby, even a toddler.

I love him to bits of course but it definitely feels a long time since I was childfree!

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jellyfishperiwinkle · 17/04/2025 08:50

Yeah, I think the first year feels like ten.

What did go fast is when DDs got to secondary school. Primary school went on forever!

It's like when people say they feel 20 inside. I feel great, but very much 49 inside and out, and there is nothing wrong with that.

Comedycook · 17/04/2025 08:46

Ha! Agree op....my DD was 2 and half years old for about four years....

isolate34 · 17/04/2025 08:45

Yeah I think this. Tbf mine is 7 now and the years have seem to gone more quickly since he was 5 but still it seems like a different lifetime since I didn't have him /was pregnant