things I didn't know I found annoying until I had children.

A certain high pitched "MUUUUUUUM" which DD2 makes when she wants something.

My older DD reading the laptop over my shoulder.

STOP IT!!!! I want to have a private life!!

All of these!

The questions...Oh man the questions...some make sense some don't.. . Means I am ratty at DH when he asks anything too

Having to drink 150 cups of imaginary tea a day and somehow doing it wrong

Being expected to "look" every 3 seconds. Usually while pulling on to the motorway, handling a large, hot, heavy dish or being in another room... Probably the bathroom.

Putting gloves on. Putting gloves on again. Putting gloves on again. Putting gloves on again. Whatever the weather.

Random people saying "look at her eyes". I have had her nearly 3 years, I know what her eyes look like. I also like her t shirt. Curls in her hair. Sense of humour. New shoes. She is more than a walking set of eyes!

Clothes, not others!

YY to repetition!

What I wouldn't give to not have to watch toy story again today. Or read a spot book.

Getting my clothes dirty. Pre-DC you might spill a bit of coffee or sauce and just dab it off. If I had to dab every time I got a bit of yoghurt/crisp crumbs/ketchup on me my others would be soaking wet all day.

Thank you all, you have just removed any faint vestige of regret/wistfulness I may have felt about getting my tubes tied last weekend.

For me it was the noise and the relentlessness of being constantly asked things or demanded of me. She's 12 now so still does it to some extent but I find this time 100 times easier and more rewarding than the toddler years!

The clinging to your leg while you cook is infuriating. DD also likes to stand really close behind me so I can't see her and almost fall over her when I try to move. I have set up a little table at the other end of the kitchen specifically to try and avoid this. I send her to peel the paper off onions.

An ex colleague of mine used to spend her evenings pre-DCs' bedtime on her feet, even if watching TV, just to stop them sitting/lying/crawling on her.

For me, it's the volume. The sheer noise of them, especially in confined spaces, such as cars. And the fact that I become a shrieking lunatic, after 50 zillions times of asking them to keep it down and them totally ignoring me.

Can I add more? I've had a bit of a morning and this thread is right up my street!

Putting shoes on.

Leaving the house by just, I dunno, walking out the door.

Getting Ds into his car seat when he doesn't want to get in it.

I may add more as the day progresses!

Cheerios. I never knew they could be so rage-inducing. It's like groundhog day picking them off the floor, and they get everywhere

Saying the word no, again and again and again and again...

Being expected to hold conversations when I'm on the loo.

Oh my god the physical contact. DD is only 5mo but a lot of days when DH gets home I'm just like "don't touch me just take this baby and let me cook tea"

Reading books to them.

The sound of something dropping in the floor. Even something mess-less like a rubber. Because I'll either have a battle getting them to pick it up or ill do it. Again.

Being touched here too. I hate the leg grab when you try and walk anywhere. I cooked an entire roast dinner with a toddler attached to ny leg once. It took ever ounce of willpower I had not to do some sort of ninja kick to flick him off would only have made his clingy ness worse

I also miss being "off duty" even watching tv downstairs on an evening I feel twitchy listening for noises of escaping / needing a wee / nightmarey toddler.

Oh yeah, with you on being touched - or more specifically being tapped.

Yes to being touched! I go crazy by the end of the day and want to curl up inside a protective dome all on my own.

Also noise and mess while I'm trying to eat. I would give anything for one meal without background singing about sausages and smears of yogurt everywhere.