Time flies

We were out last night celebrating 20 years of marriage (and it being 20 years, were more practical than romantic and had the boys with us also) and I remarked that the last few years had gone really quickly.
Joe (nearly 18) said he thought his life was speeding up compared to his perception as a child.
It is a phenomenon that seems to be universal.. the older you get the quicker it appears to zoom along. We were watching a programme about Stephen Hawkins the other night and there was something on it about time being distorted around planetary masses.. maybe time also distorts (accelerates) around the accumulation of memories and experiences we gather as we age? Or - maybe the older you get , the fatter you get and therefore more your mass distorts time and space – haha.
Anyway – it is genuinely surprising to a part of me to be at my 20th anniversary, about to celebrate my toddler son’s 18th birthday and late-twenties-early-thirties-world-view-me’s 44th Birthday. Blimey. Gosh golly. Oo er.

We're off to Amsterdam (not with the boys though) for an anniversary weekend ater today. I've never been but Anita has and I'm really looking forward to it.

When I get back I'm going to get back in touch with some newly-found Kelly family members I managed to uncover recently and who have also been looking at genealogy stuff - very exciting and also satisfying in that it opens up my sense of heritage/clan-ship (if that makes sense) knowing I have an extended family that until recently consisted (of those alive of course) of just my bother, my dad and my auntie (from the kelly side). Now I have a couple of 2nd cousins, some twice removed (I think thats the right term) and a whole set of new (for me) family anecdotes and historical memories. A lovely thing.