A new season …

Yesterday, my youngest son exclaimed, “Mummy, it’s a new season.”

I was playing Connect 4 with him, but kinda tuning him out at the same time … I know, my bad … so I just gave a bog standard reply of “uh huh, that’s great.”

Truth be told, I wasn’t entirely sure what the little man was referring to and as he was kicking my ass at the game, my concentration was on that.

“Did you know that?  Mum?  It’s a nee-you season,” he said again, this time with even more emphasis on the new.

At this point, I figured he was repeating one of the trillion adverts running at the moment informing us all about a new season of this television program or that television program, so I said,”yes, son isn’t it great?”

Because mummy  he loves the music and dancing, I have been known on occasion to let him stay up and watch Glee so I asked him if he was excited about the new season and did he want to watch it with mummy.

He gave me one heck of a puzzled look and said, “no silly mummy. It’s a nee-you season.  Called autumn.”

My eyes widened a little as he continued with, “you know, when all the leaves fall off the trees.”

Penny.

Dropped.

“Oh,” was all I could get out. 

I guess that told me to pay better attention to my smart, beautiful, little boy.  They grow up. 

Way. 

Too. 

 Fast. 

Don’t they?

 So, yeah … happy Fall y’all.

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