You Know You Have Young Children In The House When...

• The laundry basket is constantly overflowing. The washing machine is on every day. The job is never finished.
  
• Your best, most expensive, high heeled shoes only come out when your daughter has friends round and they decide to play dress-ups with them.
  
• You realise you haven’t worn nice clothes or high heels for several years (with the exception of our wedding last February).In fact you pretty much live in trainers or gum boots now, and it’s a truly exciting day when the ballet flats or boots come out of the wardrobe.
  
• The same goes for handbags. I used to have heaps of pretty handbags. Now I carry a humungous sack like thing filled with spare clothes, water bottles, snacks, more snacks, tissues, toys, a toilet roll, etc, etc. 
•  Your kitchen cupboards are full of fruit roll-ups, little boxes of raisins and kid-sized packs of crackers & cheese dip, six different bottles of food colouring, and a truckload of different varieties of cake decorations and sprinkles. I never had this stuff BK (before kids), and can think of plenty of better things I’d prefer to fill the cupboards up with!
• Your toothpaste tube has a permanently congealed, sticky blob of toothpaste at the top. 
• You realise you are probably playing a key role in keeping New Zealand’s dairy farmers in business (we go through 6 litres of milk and who knows how much cheese and yoghurt each week). 
• The kitchen floor is NEVER clean, despite sweeping and mopping several times a day.
•  If you want a relaxing bath you have to clear a trillion toys, water bottles, bubble makers, funnels, etc out of the way first. 
• You can’t remember the last time you went to the toilet on your own. 

This is what real life is like in our household. But it's worth it of course, because they are gorgeous!!!