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Worst thing - not having enough hours in the day to just sit and read

Best thing - being able to play like a child again, like building a den or making a magic potion with leaves and petals in the garden

Worst thing: tiredness!

Best thing: Seeing this little child, who was once just a dream, become a lovely person. Seeing them smile and laugh and play and nto worry about how they look, what's cool etc.

Favourite - snuggling up in bed on a cold morning, tickling and giggling.

Least favourite - the drudgery of the extra housework

Worst thing: Permanently feeling/being late for everything because there are not enough hours in the day.

Best thing: The smile on either of my children's faces when they look up and see that I have come in to the room.

Favourite thing: Releasing my inner child and playing, I never had lego growing up, now we have loads but I am still not very good.

Worst Thing: Loss of independence and lack of sleep

Worst thing: never having any time for myself.

Best thing: skin to skin cuddles with my children.

Favourite thing: Full body check kisses from my little boy

Worst thing: The perpetual, necessary planning and packing. And then something crops up and it all goes to pot anyway.

Favourite Thing: being the most important person in the world to my children

Least Favourite Thing: the isolation

worst thing; the feeling i get when one of them are poorly.

best thing; is spending every second of the day wiv my girls cuddling, playing and watching them grow up into little princesses.

Best thing: Smiles and cuddles.

Worst thing: Poo. And lack of sleep.

Favourite thing - the kisses and cuddles, snuggling up on the sofa to read a story, watching them when they are asleep.

Least favourite - constant housework. And the expense of everything.

Least favourite: No time for me anymore - my time is not my own!

Favourite thing: When DS stays still long enough for a proper cuddle (which includes the bonus that I get 2 minutes peace just enjoying him and collecting my thoughts)

Worst - being exposed to cartoonito, no?

Best thing: When they say they love you and cuddle you

Worst thing: knowing I will worry about so many things for them forevr!

best thing - little cuddles on cold mornings, school assemblies when they cant see you but you can see them looking for you - their faces when they find you are priceless. watching a baby grow into a person, with their own personality and sense of humour

worst thing - the never ending guilt. that you maybe didnt handle something right, or you didnt spend enough time with them today or you cant make their school play - guilt

best thing - cuddling up with both of them when they're sleepy/asleep and sniffing their hair

worst thing - feeling torn in two when they both need something now!

another 'worst': those days when "go to the toilet" is just an item on your to do list!

Best thing: cuddles and kisses (mostly) on demand

Worst thing: never being able to properly 'switch off'

best thing - watching them develop into people with their own personalities, likes dislikes and opinions.
worst - not being able to go to the toilet alone!

worse thing, working single mother guilt, not doing the right thing if I do, not doing the right thing if I dont.

best thing, watching dd1 making dd2 laugh

Best thing: Watching them play nicely together.
Worst thing: Sleepless nights with toddler.

Best things: seeing their wild imaginations at work and watching their horizons expanding as they grow. Also seeing them rugby tackle the other children out of the way at nursery when I walk in to pick them up

Worst things: the worrrry, the lack of a decent lie-in with tea and the papers, and the endlessly repeated monotony that is 'dinner'.

Best thing: when they are still young enough to have NO inhibitions.

Worst thing: the feeling of constant responsibility, even when they're not with you.

best thing: when they get a sense of humour. My kids can make me literally cry laughing

Worst thing: The expense!