And then the kids came along.
Now you consider yourself lucky if you manage to go to the loo without a small child hanging off your leg or someone asking for the 54th time that morning if they can have another biscuit.
Sometimes you are just so desperate to get 5 minutes to yourself that you do things you know that rationally you shouldn't.
So I thought I'd share with you some of the things I have done over the years to get a much needed, I'm- going-to-flip-out-if-I-don't-get-a-, moments peace.
A common occurance in our household is the Cheerios \ rice \ raisons all over the kitchen floor scenario. It's not like I don't know they're doing it. It's just that at that particular moment the full cup of coffee sitting in front of me, or the article I can read from start to finish - uninterrupted - is worth the 40 minute clean up* and aghast looks from Disapproving Dad when he walks in.
Then there's the 'oh no I know he shouldn't be playing with that' moments. Not just once I have let one of my little darlings play with, and subsequently break, my only pair of designer glasses - 'yes sweetheart you just take them into the playroom and come back when they resemble a coat hanger'.
Which brings me to mobile phones...suffice to say - toilet, bath, garden wall. Grrr.
I should also probably admit here that yes, I did put three kids in the bath with a bottle of Fairy Liquid and a bottle of paint once. (Note: Once. It wasn't pretty and it wasn't worth it).
Ok, to finish, I'm not proud of this one, but, you know, needs must.
So go on, 'fess up then, what have you done recently for 5 minutes peace?
*(I say 40 minutes but in actual fact it's more like 40 days - for weeks after there will be cheerios found stuck to everything from pyjamas to cushion covers. You have been warned.)
