10. Getting the kids to stop pinching each other in the back seat of the car when you know they’re strategically pinching each other in places that you can’t see.
9. Poop in the bathtub.
8. The time she insisted on wearing her fancy dress on a trip to the ice cream store.
7. Permanent marker, Play Doh, toothpaste, cupcake sprinkles.
6. Learning that your child is “too talkative” in class.
5. Seeing your makeup all over Barbie.
4. Finding Barbie’s newly shorn hair all over your bathroom.
3. After a long day at work, allowing the kids to play Wrestlemania with the couch cushions on the living room floor.
2. The first sleep-over.
1. Your keys hidden ever so carefully in the pocket of the fireman costume “in case of fire.”









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