How you know you're very definitely a mum and no longer a fabulously cool thrusting happening young thing...

[angelene]

Singing along to the Wombats single and replacing 'Let's dance to Joy Division...' with 'Call the Koala Brothers...'

Any others?

When young men in cars don't toot you anymore and builders on sites look away disinterestedly when you push the buggy past.

When you go out and there is always a spare nappy, wetwipes, a biscuit and a avent cup in your handbag and you don't actually have a child with you.

When you ask your DP just before leaving the house " have you been to the toilet?"

When you turn up at MIL only for her to announce "Oh i've just bought that bag, they are ever so handy with all the compartments" about your lovely new handbag
When popping for a swim involves a whole boot full of bags and a whole washing machine full of towels and costumes afterwards!
Also when you have been outting off renewing your passport for the last year as you dont want to have to replace the photo of the hot young twenty year old with the tired, mother of three pregnant spotty thirty one year old

When you tell everyone you meet that your eldest is starting secondary school in September and not one person says "oh, you're not old enough to have a child at secondary school."

When you wait patiently then announce "Green man!" to your friend when you are waiting to cross the road - and all our kids are in school at the time. And she doesn't even bat an eyelid, so at least I'm not alone in my Mum-ness.

My Moment of Revelation came in a picture-framing shop where the young shop assistant was talking to her friend about the last ever episode of Buffy - which she had seen in the States but hadn't been aired in Britain yet. She was just about to describe the final denoument when I shrieked across the shop "Don't! Don't tell me the end!" The looks they gave me said quite clearly "you watch Buffy?" - a mixture of pity and amazement - I could tell they thought I was far too old to be a Buffy fan.

When you don?t mind rifling in your ds?s nappy for a sample of poo to send to docs
When you get some kind of pleasure picking the dried up snot out of ds?s nose with a cotton bud (having soaked it in baby lotion first)
When the girl at the checkout says ?is that cd for you? You?re a bit old for that aren?t you?? when you buy the latest Avril Lavigne
When you are out on a hen night, dancing too vigorously and realise you have wet yourself slightly
When you look at beautiful trendy young girls on said hen night and think ?tsk tsk she hasn?t got a bra on??
You choose a holiday based on whether they have a kids club rather than whether there is a nightclub
Soooo many more??.
Great thread

Ooh. Love this thread...

When you use a rucksack instead of a handbag, even for work, just so that you have your hands free.

When you tell all your friends that baby wipes are the best invention ever and you don't know how you coped before you had them.

When you can't watch films where someone is doing something drastic 'to protect their kid' without seriously thinking about what you'd do if it was you (and/or start crying).

When you and dh get excited about spending the afternoon at a garden centre as it has everything - even a play area!!

When you buy fridge magnets instead of clothes or jewellery on holiday........ Just been to Camden (with kids), ds got a t-shirt and I realised I was 20years too old and 2 stone too heavy to even be there

When you've just booked a trip to a "Thomas" extravaganza on your birthday, and you're actually looking forward to it!

When u spend way too much time on MNET and u didnt know it even existed a year ago!

When you look forward to belting out the words to the baby singing class's special song but have no idea what's in the charts !

That, and the fact that you don't care that there are miscellaneous stains on your (once fabulously cool)jeans before you leave the house :-)

when your man takes your son fishing and does not spend his first day off in 6 months with you!!!!!!!! and you just look at your high heeled shoes in their boxes in the wardrobe and think how much space they take up

when you connect the word "imagine" to story makers and not John Lennon

When you don't mind that your baby has been sick in your mouth

When you fall in love every day - I've never known a love like it

When you think the 'number rap' on CBeebies is cool

When you go to a gig (rarely) and come out to a load of people your age waiting to pick up their teenagers

lol sophie..and when you get over-excited at a cbeebies concert because it's the nearest you've been to a gig for ages...

When your hairdressers says she'll cut your hair like she cuts her mothers.

When my dd spat out some cake into my hand in the Waitrose coffee shop and I popped it into my mouth because I didn't have anything else to do with it, causing the "happening thing" at the next table to gag!

nelliesmum

NEVER EVER DO THAT AGAIN - please no

Okay...sorry!!

When your attempt to 'play' with the kids involves trying out the new trampoline daddy has at his house and realising that actually mummies pelvic floor is knackered (blush) and then being mortified because the youngest is now 3.5 and I thought it had recovered (sad)
All mummies BEWARE trampolines!!!!

but then enjoying the hilarious belly giggling as the 'younger' generation (I'm 25!) enjoy what I no longer can- I don't even get to feel sorry for myself anymore (smile)

ok - need to practise emoticons but you get the idea!
:D

when all your knickers are white,cotton,midi.

When you cross the road only at the lowered curbs even when you don't have a pushchair.

When you anwer the door to the shocked postman while breastfeeding.

When you are still wearing only nursing bras even though you have stopped breastfeeding, because you haven't had time or inclination to buy new ones.

When you can talk loudly about poo without batting an eyelid.

When you keep the empty toilet rolls in case someone comes over all crafty.

When you organise said toilet rolls and other potentially useful things into boxes with labels such as "felt bits".