Thirsty Thursday: The kids really are growing up so fast...
Sarah McCarthy’s Thirsty Thursday column is brought to you each week thanks to Invercargill-based law firm Mee & Henry Law.
Sarah McCarthy’s Thirsty Thursday column is brought to you each week thanks to Invercargill-based law firm Mee & Henry Law
THIRSTY THURSDAY 53
I apologise, wholeheartedly, for the calibre of this week’s Thirsty Thursday. I’m struggling with my stupid back and my brain is empty.
A friend suggested that I write about the dire state of the driving in this town, but I find that a bit difficult because a) I am not allowed to drive at the moment and therefore don’t care about driving and b) this suggestion came from the man who backed a moving truck into his neighbour’s car just last week so I’m unsure of what to say without causing offence.
This year for Mother’s Day I got the first ever gift made for me by one of my sons that is an actual thing and not just bottlecaps stuck to a piece of paper.
The big one made me a chopping board, and it is the best present I’ve ever gotten. I needed a new one, as I am working with a giant one that is really a serving board as my old faithful (cheap) chopping board had been falling apart slice by slice, and in my head I had decided I wanted to buy a really nice new one but never got around to it. So this chopping board was both much needed as well as being super thoughtful, although I suspect it may just be a coincidence.
Every time I look at it I think about how much work must have gone into making the shape and sanding the edges and I think about his hands, once so tiny and curled into my palm, being now so big and deft and full of the promise of creation.
When the boys were little and I struggled with them both, I would bristle at online things where there would be a cartoon picture of a balloon or some rubbish and it would say “the days are long but the years are short SHARE THIS NOW OR MARK ZUCKERBERG WILL EAT YO KIDS” or something similar.
But now, I don’t know if it’s the menopause (my lady sticker straight up fell off this morning, so thanks soooo much for the rubbish gear Simeon you waste) but the time between then and now seems to have shrunk to a sliver.
The kids really are growing up so fast and their needs are changing and who I am to them is evolving all the time. AND THAT IS DISGUSTING. I’ve only just gotten my head around some really crucial bits of parenting but now they both have a bit of a swearing problem and neither listen to me at all until I yell and then I’m mean mummy, so I really don’t know how I’m going to be able to sort either of them out when they are towering above me with their giant feet and all of that hair.
Although the way my back feels, I may be able to have a very knobbly walking stick and can just smack them really hard on the ankle bones with it if they get too annoying. I mean, at least it’s a plan.
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