Starting early
Last Thursday night Zach, Sami and I were sitting around the table after dinner and the subject of learning to drive came up. Early in the New Year Zach will be turning16 and therefore able to sit for his driver’s license. I guess I knew it was coming but, where did the years go? I still remember the day Zach was born and the nurse weighed him on the scales shortly after being delivered, with his strong and powerful crying still reverberating off the walls of the operating theatre. He looked at up at me with such curiosity, but as I spoke to him he seemed to calm down. Strangely he seemed to recognize my voice but I suppose this is rather normal especially given that I'd been speaking to him via my ex’s stomach over the course of the pregnancy, and I mean every night. I have very fond memories of being in bed together at night and me reading him stories from our newly acquired library of story books that we'd invested in - such a new parent thi...