You know you've had too many children when...

[LynetteScavo]

You nearly have a heart attack paying for their new school uniform, then struggle to carry it all home.

[Hassled]

I have so many children I've forgotten who's who. DS3 is often called by the cat's name. I figure I only have to start worrying when he answers to the cat's name.

[fruitshootsandheaves]

You drive away with a car full and realise there's one still standing on the drive

[MedusaIsHavingABadHairDay]

Three of them have gone to the Reading festival and the house is too quiet, too tidy and you can't imagine how anyone can find one child hard work!

I have never been alone with just one before and it's just really weird for me!!!!!

[Chummybud1]

When your house is as chaotic as mine,

[queenmaeve]

my blog post on this!

[mumatron]

queenmaeve that blog post is lovely. you have beautiful dc.

[queenmaeve]

thanks mumatron Send your dp round here for an afternoon and it will soon put him off!

[mumatron]

i think it would only encourage him!

[picnicbasketcase]

Erm... They just fall out rather than giving birth to them?

[queenmaeve]

at picnicbasket!

[queenmaeve]

Hassled, I used to laugh at my mum saying a load of names before she got the right one, now Im as bad

[deemented]

Oh i do that too!!

[NickNacks]

queenmaeve I've just got hugely distracted and spent two hours looking at your blog!

I have a scaled down version of your brood...with the little girl to tie things up. :) Always wanted lots of boys you lucky lady!

[PacificDogwood]

You know you've had too many children:

-when you shout out random names and the child you mean responds
-your car is bigger than the local school bus (well, almost)
-you go through 24 pts of milk/wk - at least
-nobody is saying to you 'when are you having another one?' anymore
-the futility room contains more pairs of shoes than the local Clarks shop
-you have run out of hands
-you have run out of gin
-your older children are desperate for a bit of mummy attention
-your washing machine is about to go to the European Court to sue you for inhumane treatment

[Smellslikecatpee]

I'm one of 8, sometimes Ma could forget why she was yelling at you by the time she got to the right name

[queenmaeve]

nicknacks feel free to look away!

[Loshad]

when you mainly addres them by their ranking in the family (ie ds1,2 etc ) as opposed to their name, and they don't turn a hair

[madhattershouse]

@pacific


But I do still have some !

[Fuctifano]

Junior Dr's are introduced to you as "a frequent flier" so have a feel of an experienced fundus...
Loshad, with you on chronological order, never thought it was odd, other people (with 2DCs) do.
The school uniform stockist says how sweet you are are picking stuff up for friends.
The staff in Clarkes wince and don't try to flog you gym shoes.
The teachers at the primary school mix their names up as badly as you do.
Clean socks make their way to feet via the clothes horse, tumble drier or sock box but never drawers.

[CardyMow]

With you on the socks there Fuctifano. (love the name btw). I raise you the same with underwear. .

• If you consider it a miracle to be up and out of the house within an hour and a half.
  

• If you have taken to buying different colour socks for the same-sex dc so they don't get mixed up. And also different styles of underwear (i.e. pants for one, boxers for another).
  

• If you just call 'boys' and 'girls' down to dinner. .
  

• In the summer holidays you find your house has turned into the neighbourhood childcare facility, with what seems like every child in the world between the ages of 5 and 15 in your house eating all your food...
  

• If your handbag always cotains at least one stone, a used baby wipe, a hairband or 3, a dummy, an odd sock, and some random grotty sticky stuff that you couldn't identify if you wanted to that has seemingly covered everything else in your bag.

[Chummybud1]

When your kids friends are round you just think it's another one of your own.

[electra]

You're driving along and suddenly realise you're not sure which of your children are in the car.

[FellatioNelson]

You are still dripping bath water 20 minutes after getting out of the bath.

[FellatioNelson]

And I don't mean because you haven't had the time to get dry.

[ragged]

I have done that driving thing, Electra . Loads

You've forgotten what it ever meant to have parenting ideals.
The kids call you by the wrong name, too.
You no longer have any faith in your parenting ability, because 2 of them turned out lovely, one is iffy and one is a little horror -- and you have no idea what you did different with any of them.