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

[BusyCee]

repetition
loud noises
things being spilled on the floor
being touched

To be fair all the above happened far less frequently before I had children. Repetition is a particular annoyance - not just me saying the same thing over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again, but chanting, singing the same line of a song repeatedly, taunting etc.

Love them, but dear God for just 24hrs of peace....

Gloves,trying to put gloves on small children is a pain.

Yes, yes dustarr - "Stick your thumb out. Like this. No, the thumb we're trying to put the glove on. The thumb. Argghhhhhh!"

Bed time stories. I loved story time, I really did. Threw myself into it, I did. Different accents, different voices, like mini plays, story time was.

However, occasionally I would be so tired, so very tired. And was guilty of trying to skip a couple of pages paragraphs! But They ALWAYS Knew. 'Ooh - have you missed out a bit there, Mum?'

Or even 'That wasn't the voice she had yesterday'

I get
Mum why can you not touch a lorry?
Mum why can you not touch a lion's head?
Mum why can you not touch a witch?
Mum why can you not touch Elsa?
And so on and so on

Swash

That's reminded me of a game DS used to play.
Suddenly, out of the blue he would come out with something like:

Mum - would you rather be a hedgehog or a kangaroo?
Mum - would you rather be a lion or a hippo?
Mum - would you rather be a giraffe or a frog?

And I would have to choose, giving my reasons why.
Funny now, looking back, but at the time - OH GODDDD!

(Oh, and PS - back to the Cheerios thing, I've just found three on the sofa, two on the floor in the hall, one in the bathroom and five under the microwave)

My DC are now grown up but occasionally they still do the Muuuuuuuuum thing and last Saturday my DGS said Naaaaaaaany? Aaaaargh

Oh yes, the rubbish and the carrying every damn thing.

I arrived at DD's school from work, carrying a small handbag that contained a purse, a phone, my keys and a book.
10 minutes later the same bag contained two broken crayons, a throat sweet wrapper, a hairband and a crisp packet picked up diligently from the path because they've been doing sustainability at school and it's wrong to leave litter. I also managed to carry DD's coat, cardigan, lunchbox, book bag, homework folder that doesn't bloody fit in the book bag, the picture that she did at breaktime and refuses to put in the book bag, the water bottle she doesn't want to put in the book bag because it might leak..

DD did acknowledge that I might be struggling, and generously offered to put her hairband back on

I think that every mother secretly envies the octopus.

I think we should have a quality panel for bedtime books.

If you're going to make a rhyme, make it fucking scan. Julia D is pretty good at this although the Highway Rat does my head in.

We had one called Emergency which DS had at bedtime for ever a year and the rhymes didn't scan - read them out loud author!!! If there are more words in one line than the next then it WON'T read properly however hard you try and Mummy will hide forget where she put that book.

Oh, and taking turns to press the crossing button. 9 and 5 and they still squabble. Amazing neither of them has ended up in the road already...

Oh and the burning need to ask a question and then NOT listening to the sodding answer....

The constant "muuuuum" before every question even though I'm in the same room. Feel like screaming "I'm stood next to you, just ask the bloody question!"

The questions...., always with the questions

Holding things.... All the time....

The 'can you put this in your handbag Mum?' No I can't it is my handbag for my stuff. You have got pockets. Otherwise my bag would be full of conkers, interesting looking pebbles, fir cones, etc.

My bag at the moment includes two rubber rats, an assortment of cars, broken crayons, spare pants, some half completed colouring in, stickers and a selection of miniature dinosaurs. No wonder I have an achy back and shoulder.

Oh and of course, sticks and leaves.

Ruby you must be a nice Mummy. After my third I am ruthless

Pushchairs, children should be born fully capable of walking. I used to think they looked pretty useful.. Lots of room for shopping bags. No. They are heavy and annoying and half the time they have a mind of their own.

YY to repitition
'Mummy spider'
'Ohh yeah a big spider'
'Spider'
'Yep that's a spider'
'Spider.. Spideeerrr'
'YES'
'LOOK SPIDDDEERRR'
There are only so many times you can pretend to be as excited by a spider as a toddler.

Juice, everything about it. Making it twice because the first time it wasn't good enough, cleaning it up off the floor and everywhere else.. Being forced to drink it...

Also being asked to sit in ridiculous places. My 2 year DS loves to sit in the to unit and scream at me to 'COME INNNNN'

I could go on forever but I'll stop there

Oh and do anyone else's children like to hide things then have you search the ENTIRE house for said thing only to give up... then 2 minutes later they go and get the thing you were trying to find from wherever the hell they originally put it??
This annoys me to no end.

Paw Patrol. Mr Tumble. Magazines with plastic crap attached to the front (especially lipstick).

Listening to songs I actually like more than two times in succession. Robyn "Dancing on my Own" = masterpiece and DD loves it (about which I am grateful and proud) but fourth time round it gets a bit old.

Yes to the hiding things,not to bad now.But when they where younger every thing went missing.
Everything being a competition and counting everything the other child gets.God forbid you give one of the other darlings something extra WW3 breaks out.

I'm sitting here reading this with my snuggly newborn pfb and both laughing hysterically and wondering what on earth I've got myself into!

Work meetings in which nothing is being agreed, or the information could have been communicated by email. In my experience, they're usually run by men who like the sound of their very slow voice.

I think we would be more successful as a country if everybody in all meetings was paying overtime to the child minder just in order to attend.