Gift from God

ACE is 12 today. We have to pay full adult price for him at buffets from today onwards.

Parenting isn't a science. In a lab, we get to control all the variables. At home, we are lucky if we get to control the TV remote.

"Children are from heaven," so wrote Dr John Gray. I agree...ACE is a gift from God.

He can be exhausting, maddening and irritating - but he is still a gift. He can be funny, endearing and lovable - and truly feel like a gift. He can wrench my soul and break my heart - precisely because he is such a precious gift.

And to top it all off, he is a gift that comes with strings attached.