Everyone goes on about buying cots, buggies, nappies and all that crap. But there are other less obvious things that you need more off. For instance we now need more pencil sharpeners, something I hadn't even thought about for about 25 years.
Packs of a4 paper, keeps any group quiet in my experience, be it painting, aeroplanes, models, simply indispensable, ( even gave a pack as a gift recently)!!!
More hours in the day
Another Pair of hands....
Red wine. That's the missus talking .btw. 🙂
Sleep! How much a series of disrupted nights sleep and general sleep deprivation can effect you..
iPads . I mean books , sorry.
sleep.
Kids' shoes and a slow cooker.
I know everyone says sleep and time etc etc.. I was thinking of less obvious things.
Thermometers. Currently at 6.
Carpet cleaning comapnies.
Patience
Tippex
Plasters (only with red dinosaurs on)
White socks with no frilly bits - NO FRILLY BITS. Did I mention no frilly bits?
Cupboard full of at least 600 rolls of bog paper.
600 litres of toothpaste (1ml gets onto the brush, a pint spooged all over the sink)
Magic cream (savlon)
As said above 1500 sheets of a4 paper (1 percent of each page gets used. A drawing is made up of 100 pages)
Cheese in a red packet (must be red)
Little b*#&t*&ds but I love them
Chocolate and sweets for bribery purposes.
Emergency supply of paint to match internal walls. Just had our first "mural" incident last week!
Good reflexes at 2.30am and the ability to make a watertight bowl from your hands.
The ability to ignore the smell of vomit which you can't shift from your hands...
Carpet cleaner
Sudocrem. Didn't know it existed before our first was born. We have always had at least one pot in the house ever since and I take it on holiday too. The first born is now 22.
And +100 for patience
Patience
This.
Selflessness
The ability to fix the unfixable...
The ability to fix the unfixable...
Also needed by the next leader of the Conservative party...
Bulk calpol, tankers of the stuff.
Pencil cases, at least one new one per child per year.
Back-packs, at least one per child per year.
Money
Kitchen roll
Babysitters.
Superglue to repair toys with.
Another job.
Diplomatic skills -North Korean style.
AA &AAA batteries.
ear plugs
A spare fit wife to do all the stuff that gets left undone by the overworked stressed out No 1 wife.
Like the husband.
Alas my wife didn't see eye to eye with me on that, so what was undone stayed undone.
The ability to listen to facts about vikings for several hours straight without going completely insane, apparently.
Ah, I was prepared for that kind of thing. I remember it from my own childhood 🙂
Patience and batteries.
Though a spare 'fit' wife sounds... actually I think I'd rather a cleaner.
Puke and sh.t coloured clothes, so it all blends in
Reliable car you don't mind looking like a refuse truck
Spare fridge as there's never any room for beers otherwise
+1 for Sudocrem, never without it now (mine are 22, 25, 27)
Things you don't need - Alarm clock
Stickers. Lots of stickers. They're like crack for small people.
Love.
You thought you had enough of it, but suddenly you realise you need more. More than is available. Anywhere.
Boxes of tissues, several in every room, for when instant access is critical.
Things you don't need - Alarm clock
We have to wake our kids (4 & 7) every morning for school, 7.30.
A Costco card. We'd be bankrupt without one.
Scalextric
A capacity to endure Star Wars facts
A Cub leader's uniform
Patience
Adaptability
Boxes. Lots of boxes.
We're on holiday this week so:
More shoes than I thought possible.
A rucksack of rucksacks, for walking and riding.
Bottles, lots of water bottles.
Wipes! Lots of wipes. In every room.
The ability to resist the advances of plenty of yummy mummies you meet on the school run.
Daydreaming - you ain't getting any sleep so you might as well dream while you're awake...
Morphine
Impulse control. To stop you giving them the clip round the ear they so richly deserve
+many for patience and batteries.
CaptainFlashheart - Member
Love.You thought you had enough of it, but suddenly you realise you need more. More than is available. Anywhere.
Aah, CFH, you've just made me want to hug my girls when I get home and send you a virtual (manly)hug in case that's a cry for help. 🙂
Discovery Shed for the 4am fishing programs. Trust me, when you're on the red eye feed watching a group of blokes sat on a riverbank doing nothing is perfect.
You'll also need the ability to describe what colour the number 4 smells like. Negotiating with toddlers is half art half science...
Pornhub, because when you've got two young kids you ain't getting none. Sleep is what beds are for now.
Storage space.
Lots and lots of storage space
In the words of the great Bolton.....
Time, love and tenderness.
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There's one thing you need less of, in fact you need none at all - bike cleaning fluid. Baby wipes are awesomely cheap and very effective bike cleaners
Cost saving totally nullified by pretty much everything else, but anyway...