Tell Tale Signs

Want to know a few tell tale signs that you are a full hands on Dad:

• You used to cycle to work humming the cool rifts of the likes of Korn, Metallica or Limp Bizkit. Nowadays more often than not the soundtrack to Fireman Sam is constantly stuck in your head.
• You have forgotten what the middle part of a garlic baguette tastes like as you cut all the nice fleshy bits out for the boys and only get to eat the crusty outside bit yourself!
• You start putting on the pounds as you would rather eat the boys left over's as opposed to throwing away good food!
• You have read the pop-up dinosaur and Fireman Sam books so many times that at night time when you read the boys their night time story you can read through the books with your eyes closed and know each page word for word.
• Poo, wee, snot, bogies, dribble, sick.............it really doesn't matter anymore. Over the years you have seen and cleaned up so much that you are hardened to whatever the children throw at you (or throw-up on you!).
• 6.30am is a lay-in!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh to have a night with 8 hours uninterrupted sleep would be like heaven.
• A good weekend used to be judged by how much you got completed around the house and then the intensity of training sessions down the gym. Nowadays it is judged on quality time spent with the boys, heading over parks, out on the bikes, finding ice cream vans, playing in the garden, teaching them painting/drawing etc.etc.etc.
• When ever you walk into Tesco's / Sainsbury's you always check out the children's clothes, toys and children's book isles!!!
• Road rage now involves calling the driver who just cut you up a "monkey" instead of using swear words.
• Your garage which once housed a pristine classic American car now stores multiple children's bikes and accessories, push chairs along with box loads of baby clothes which are all too small now.