Single Mums

Wow I don’t know if it’s just me or not but these last few months are really flying. While most of it is probably due to how busy I’ve been at work, I think somewhere in amongst all that, time seems to be zooming on as my little man will be turning 16 in a couple of weeks and I’m having some minor adjustment problems.

It seems like only yesterday that this little 6 pounder was cuddling up with me, a tiny little thing that changed my life. Of course it wasn’t long before he was roaming around following me everywhere I went, listening to me when I talked to him and generally thinking I was the light of his life. His Mum! The one he relied on, listened to and believed in. Even though we crossed paths in those years, having the odd little tiff, he was (and still to some extent is a Mummy’s boy - as most boys tend to be)

But now? well now my little man is not so little anymore - he towers over me, outweighs me and is starting on his new path in life. While he still tells me everything (sometimes there’s somethings a mum really doesn’t need to know) and still turns to me on occasion when he needs something (aside from the usual: money, food and a chaffeur) with each passing day it seems to be a little less.

He has a part time job, so he’s not scrounging off me as much, he’ll probably have a licence within the next month so won’t need my chaffeur services as much and judging by the horde of girls that seem to be following him around I won’t be the main female in his life for much longer. Of all that’s changing though, it’s the getting of the drivers licence that’s really causing me to want time to stand still for awhile longer, I just don’t think I’m ready to have him driving himself around the place.

Ahh well I guess it has to happen sooner or later - perhaps by the time the twins turn 16 I’ll be ready for it.