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?!?

[BendydickCuminsnatch]

It breaks my heart, feels like the first 21 years without kids lasted for 100centuries and now all I wanna do is enjoy the little buggars and be immortal... Like is that too much to ask?!

Exactly that.

Omg I'm going to be dead soon. We should all definitely seize the day!

[Badders123]

My poorly, jaundiced, tiny, floppy baby is now 13
He is 5 foot 7 and needs to start shaving soon...
😳😖😁😫😀
I'm in denial.
God, it goes sooooo fast.

[BakeOffBiscuits]

My baby DD is just buying a house with her fiancé. We went wedding dress shopping last weekend.

Last I've I looked she was whizzing round in her baby walker.

[PersianCatLady]

The night my DS was born my Dad said to me "enjoy because time will go so fast it seems like only yesterday me and your Mum were having you".

Anyway so I thought what a ridiculous thing to say what with the sleepless nights and the sheer amount of overwhelming change time moved so slowly and then I started to lose track of time and it seemed to speed up.

Now my DS has just turned 17 and I realise that my Dad was actually right.

[Memoires]

Weirdest thing, I had a baby a couple of months ago and she tells me she's 17 and is spending the weekend with her boyfriend. How?

Even weirder, when my dad asked me how old I was on a relatively recent birthday of mine, and I told him 30 and he didn't believe me. I had to make him calculate from 1958 before he agreed. He spent most of the day muttering, looking into the distance.... And now I find I'm approaching 60 rapidly - that is old

[Puremince]

I had to write a paragraph about myself and said that my children were almost grown up. They pointed out that they are in their twenties, have left home and are fully grown up. How come I hadn't noticed that?

[OpheIiaBaIIs]

About a year ago I brought my beautiful newborn DD home from hospital after a four day labour.

She starts uni next week

My mother said when DD was born that her childhood would pass by in a flash and she'd be an adult before I knew it. Pah, thought I, 18 years is a lifetime away. Once again, mother knew best.

[squeak10]

It really goes flying when they start school and you working in term times. Mines of to uni !!!

[DailyMailEthicalFail]

You know how just after you give birth you can still 'feel' baby movements inside for a bit?
I can still feel them, I swear.
Only he is now 11.
Size 10 feet and 5ft8 and with a faint moustache.

[DailyMailEthicalFail]

And my darling little fuzzy peach of a newborn dd?
She is 9 and properly properly feisty (and I am SO proud of her, and the big lolloping one too)

[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.

[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 )

[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.

[scarednoob]

So glad it's not just me!

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

[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.

[Oysterbabe]

I'll just leave this here. 😢😢😭

[scarednoob]

Well now I'm sobbing!!

[BeautyQueenFromMars]

😭😭😭

[RosaRosaRose]

oyster don't make us cry then!

[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]

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

[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]

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.

[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.

[BrieAndChilli]

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