Outlook your key to peace

MY little boy is about to start Year 2 and I keep wondering where it has all gone.

I still remember how I would carry him on my left hip. He seemed to be permanently attached there and I couldn’t imagine it ever changing. It felt like forever but life moves so quickly. Friends warned me when he was a baby that it would go quickly and they were so right.

The first day, let alone year, of prep came and went in a flash. He and his friends were swimming in their uniforms on their first day but before long were filling them out.

They grow, they change and they will thrill you with all these wonderful new additions that make them who they are.

Despite being told I would be distraught on the first day he started prep, after dropping him off, I went home, wondering when the flood of emotions would kick in. They didn’t.

I was proud of him (and also counting down the hours until I could see him again).

The thing is, he had a lifethreatening illness a few years ago and that gave me a new perspective. He may never have made prep at all.

So the lesson in it for me was that, yes, life is short and precious, and we must celebrate all these milestones because that’s another day we’ve had on this planet. So when you get back to the car, and the tears start to fall, I hope you laugh through them, because your child is on their way.