Flying - up, up, up and away

The new skill that Zach & I have been learning this last year is how to fly - in three different ways!

Gliding

We took up gliding about a year ago, and flying has become a pretty big part of our lives where we travel out to an airfield about two hours from home and generally stay for the weekend.

We have about 40 flights each and a total of about 20-30 flying hours each.

Zach is keen to solo and even has a $20 bet running with me that he will solo before me. Zach has therefore been greatly encouraged by the instructors who say that Zach is ready to solo and is probably a flight or two ahead of me.

Mother & son - losing & refinding one another

After Zach's Mum kind of broke up with him in late 2017, Zach lived with me full time for a period of about three months.

The good ending to this story is that he and his mother reconciled in about March of 2018, and Zach has therefore re-established his relationship with his Mum and is happily a child who can once again, proudly boast that he has two homes.

The separation between mother and son happened after a decade of Zach living week about with his mother, and with me.

His mother was concerned about Zach's screen time and wanted her rules on screens to implemented in both homes. While I shared her concerns, I was happy dealing with the issue in my own way, and happy for her to deal with the issue in her home in her way. We agreed to disagree.