To wonder who is fucking around with time

[scarednoob]

12 hours ago, I had baby DD. Today she's 1.

There's no way it's been a year, so either someone has made the days shorter or someone has pressed fast forward. What the hell is going on?!?

[MrsMook]

The Millennium was 16 years ago!!!
I was already an adult! Something must have gone wrong with the space-time continuum because I'm still being IDed

I'm not quite sure how I'm the owner of a nearly 6 year old, but it's an improvement on the toddler stage.

My baby brother is off to uni. When he was born, it occured to me that when he reached my age, I'd be in my mid-thirties and that seemed really old and grown up. He's now past that age and I'm still feeling like a teenager myself.

[BrieAndChilli]

I also still think of my sister as about 14 as that was the age she was when I left home to go to boarding school, she is actually 32 with 2 children!!

[glueandstick]

My tiny newborn is now crawling and beginning to talk. Those 7 months has gone so quickly. Held a newborn today and for a fleeting moment it could have been the little monster chewing my knee. I had no idea that purple line to crawling could go so fast.

[ArcticMumkey]

I know! Someone has replaced my newborn with an 8 month old, who can I write to?

[scarednoob]

My mother always said she still felt 21 inside and I rolled my eyes and scoffed at the silly old thing.

I've been 17 for 21 years now!

[OpheIiaBaIIs]

Oh, and it's not 21 years since I was sitting outside pubs in Camden ogling Britpop types and going clubbing until 4am when I had to be in work for 9am. It's not. Two, three years tops. Definitely.

[OpheIiaBaIIs]

Is it wrong to wake one of them up for a hug?

Bear I still go and tell DD to shove up when she's in bed so I can get in and give her a cuddle. She's 19. I also go into her room before I go to bed to kiss her goodnight - if I forget, she tells me off next day.

See, I told you it was only a couple of years since I brought her home from hospital

[M0nstersinthecl0set]

I first graduated 20 years ago?! WTAF.

[WickedLazy]

Brieandchilli, I'm only 24 and that blows my mind too. I was born in '92, I started secondary school in 2003, so 2002 was only... Fourteen years ago

[BrieAndChilli]

1990 was 10 years ago.......hang on it was bloody 26 years ago!!!!!!

[PinkSquash]

It was 5 minutes ago I took DS1 home from hospital, a tiny screaming red faced little angel.

He's now 10 and doing his entrance tests for grammar school tomorrow.

Then there's my baby baby, one that I literally sneezed out, he started primary school two weeks ago. How?! He should still be in nappies, tugging on my trousers so I will pull him along.

[RosaRosaRose]

thewoolly I remember my big sister, years ago, telling me (the still childless one) how much harder it was to read the riot act when you had to stand on tiptoe to even look up at them.

[TheWoollybacksWife]

I can still feel the weight of my PFB in her car seat. She claims she passed her driving test this week maybe they do lessons in a Cozy Coupe or something.

DD2 also has more makeup than Boots and is getting ready for a night on the town. As for their baby brother - he's as tall as me but I am a shortarse

Mind you, I only took my wedding vows at 2pm and MIL has sent a card saying happy 27th Wedding Anniversary. I can't have been married that long, surely.

[RosaRosaRose]

I'd lie down along 5yo quietly and breathe in her lovely scent. How lovely bear

[Bearfrills]

oysterbabe, turns out I'm way to pregnant and hormonal to watch that video. Now sobbing all alone on the sofa because DS1 is at swimming lesson with DH, 5yo DD has put herself to bed (she's an odd duck, takes herself off upstairs when she gets tired instead of fighting it like any other child), and 2yo DS is spending his second night asleep in his big boy bed instead of his cot.

Is it wrong to wake one of them up for a hug?

[RosaRosaRose]

oyster don't make us cry then!

[BeautyQueenFromMars]

😭😭😭

[scarednoob]

Well now I'm sobbing!!

[Oysterbabe]

I'll just leave this here. 😢😢😭

[RosaRosaRose]

About last Thursday fortnight my parents were directing my life. Somehow it morphed into me directing theirs by about the next Monday and now the children I had in that short break are advising me on mine and no doubt, by about next Tuesday week will be selecting my care home. happy days.

[scarednoob]

So glad it's not just me!

Mind, I bet our mothers all said the same thing. And their mothers before that.

[Haudyerwheesht]

I brought ds home last Christmas Day but he tells me he's 10 this Christmas!

Also yesterday I was 5 days overdue but keep getting rsvps to dd's SIXTH birthday party.

[70isaLimitNotaTarget]

YY the videos of toddler DC.

DH filmed them in the garden, DD was just over a year, doing that wide foot gait that they do when they potter round, bend, eat the sand

DS was maybe 3.9, climbing on the picnic table , dressed in a long teeshirt and tiny boxer shorts. DH how could you let him climb on things and film him.?

Now DD wouldn't go near mud and muck, she's never out the bathroom and her make-up bag is like a Dept store.
DS is tall , handsome, chiselled cheekbones, hasseling me to buy him face potions and whitening toothpaste (this was the boy I had to chase with the toothbrush )

They are becoming young adults in the blink of an eye.
And I am getting ancient.
They'll shed the need for my help like a snake sheds its skin


(Might get to spend some Time Alone with my lovely DH, holidays without having to worry about term times )

[nowahousewife]

Taking PFB to uni tomorrow, how did that happen?
I am reeling with how fast it has gone, only 2 yrs until the other one heads off.
True what someone said unthread, the days are slow but the years fly by.