There are a few folks around here who remember when my son, Dominic, was an infant, which is when I started participating on the SDMB (back on AOL). He’s largely the REASON I started participating, actually, because it gave me something to do while holding him and staying home all day.
Well, next Tuesday he becomes a freshman in high school.
How the HELL did that happen?!
He’s also taller than me (barely) and wears bigger shoes.
OK I’ll be the wiseacre. You have an 11 year old son going into 9th grade? :dubious:
So, how long until OpalKitten starts posting?
I did say “back on AOL” 
Probably never, since I think he’s too sensitive to last around here. There is a certain “picking on” mentality that goes on among some members here that I don’t think he would be able to deal with at his current maturity level.
(On reading that again it might sound accusatory–I don’t mean it like that. It’s just that he’s really sensitive and even gentle teasing sets him off.)
He’s going to love high school, then.
This is actually impossible. Dominic is, in fact, four.
I remember him from when he was Nicky!
That’s what I was going to say.
Then I remembered I was still in high school when I registered at this place.
Then I realized my 10th reunion will be next summer.
Then I was sad.
I was in recovery from my first prolapsed hemorroidectomy when I joined the SDMB, now I’m in recovery from my third—where indeed has the time gone? Embrace the memories, fellow dopers, live is fickle and fleeting.
Hopefully it won’t be as bad as middle school :X
And not just Nicky, but “Nicky Boober” probably.
Thanks for again reminding me just how old I am. Lucky thing I was smart enough never to have a kid or I’d be a grandfather by now.
Opal, I feel your pain! Mudgirl was just a baby when I started lurking around here; she was maybe 2 and 1/2 when I finally joined. She started middle school this year. 
Where does the time go? (Yeah, yeah, I know: it’s wherever all the lost socks are!)
MilliCal was two when I joined, and she’s been in Middle School for a couple of years. She isn’t taller than Pepper Mill yet, but her feet are definitely bigger.
Time flies when you’re having fun.
Great googly moogly! Her feet are bigger than her mom? Where do you find shoes?
My life is completely different from when I registered here! But I’m pretty astonished in general to have a high-school sophomore, an eighth grader and a kindergartener. I still feel like I’m about 25.
The biggest mystery of life is how they grow up when we don’t get any older.
Heh. I just had one of those ‘fleeting time’ moments as I was sitting here at my desk and my eyes happened to fall on the picture of my son in his army uniform. Then I glanced out the window and saw his old cat, Frankie, sitting in a patch of sunlight out in the yard. My son, the soldier, was four years old when he picked out that kitten at the animal shelter and we brought him home…
I called to Frank from the window, but he didn’t hear me - he’s pretty deaf now at the ripe old age of eighteen. :eek: