I couldn’t believe the time had come for my little boy to grow up and get his own place. I remember when he was 5 and I was pushing him round the yard on his trike. It felt like only yesterday and yet all of a sudden I blinked and 20 years went by! My little boy is all grown up and now he’s moving out into his own place, getting an office job and is becoming a man.
After he left school he had a long string of dead end jobs. None of them he was any good at and the ones he was good at he didn’t stick at. So when he told me he had an interview for a big firm in the city I was so excited! I only hoped he wouldn’t mess this one up like the others. When he got the job he decided to find himself an apartment. He borrowed the deposit (and several pans) from us and moved out. I really felt emotional and like I was losing him so I kept coming up with excuses to go over there. I’d buy him gifts, I’d buy him furniture, and I’d even make his meals and put them in the chiller for him. In the end he told me enough was enough. He promised that he would come and see us every Sunday for lunch and that I wasn’t allowed round unless I rang first! But out of all this came some good. He loved his 5-set tie and cufflink set I bought him as one of his gifts! Well I couldn’t have him going to work all scruffy now could I?! The gift set was a great buy, and I get him to wear cufflinks and ties. He is really my grownup boy!
