'you've got your hands full'

**cuffleygirl** · 28-09-2010, 12:08 PM

Cherry - you've made me smile too!

The people who this, all seem to think they are the first to say it too!

Another one that gets me when I've got a side by side double or triple - oh that's a wide load!

**cas2805** · 28-09-2010, 12:29 PM

I am so glad that's not just to me then! When I started and they asked me if they were twins I just said "No there is a month between them" I would then hear their little brains working.

I now love, how seeing me pushing the triple buggy, makes so many people smile (or laugh!)

I will start saying "That's the way I like it!" from now on, thanks

**brightstar** · 28-09-2010, 01:12 PM

I was trailing my six across the playground one day to breakfast club, a little girl came running around the corner, came to an abrupt stop and said "Whoa, thats loads of kids".

**FussyElmo** · 28-09-2010, 01:33 PM

I remember at church once the lo's were doing the navitity and one of asked if they could have a real baby Jesus. One of them piped up to ask me as I always had loads of children

**Blaze** · 28-09-2010, 01:38 PM

Originally Posted by cherry

I also get comments when I have a lot of children with me and if I'm feeling naughty say "Yes and they've all got different fathers"

I do this too when in a certain mood!

**snufflepuff** · 28-09-2010, 03:14 PM

I'm always being asked if the LOs are twins and I usually say 'no, she is 2 and a half weeks older than he is' and you can almost hear their brains ticking. So funny!

**Monkey26** · 28-09-2010, 04:21 PM

Yep, this comment comes to me a lot, especially on a Monday when i have the triple buggy out and a walking toddler... sometimes i just smile and walk on, other times i stop and chat and sometimes (when feeling cheeky!) i agree when people ask "are they triplets??" then say "now, would you like to take a closer look?!" - the twins are tunisian, very slight, dark skinned and mops of lush dark hair and the youngest baby is very fair with blonde hair, blue eyes and is a right cutie chubster

xx

**nannymcflea** · 28-09-2010, 04:29 PM

I had strange looks when I had 2 about the same height but completely different in colour.

I did find that I used to get more support from shops and people on buses when I wore my childminder sweatshirts!

Not that it should make any difference but it did.

**Alibali** · 28-09-2010, 04:31 PM

If I had a pound for every time I heard that I'd be a very rich woman

**WibbleWobble** · 28-09-2010, 04:38 PM

i was walking through town (sisnging wheels on the bus) with two mindees in double buggy. A grey haired bloke walked up to me , i thought he was going to say something like "youve got your hands full "etc but no

he said

"you are greedy"

?? eh??

"you are greedy, you have had your children so close together"

gobsmacked!

i wish i had told him to ...go and jump but

A. I was on duty
B. i dont swear outside
C. i was too gobsmacked to say anything..

he just walked past me...i stood with my mouth open...

mandy xxxxx

**samkeddy** · 28-09-2010, 04:46 PM

Just been to the shop with my kids plus 1 mindee and guess wot?.............................................. .........

Yep got it again!

**naartjies** · 28-09-2010, 05:17 PM

On some days I walk to school with 7-9 kids from 10months - 10 years (2 are mine) when some one says something I just laugh and say 'I am growing them in the garden'

that stops people in their tracks.
We live in the same road as the school so can't get away with 'they are all mine'

**mamasheshe** · 28-09-2010, 06:22 PM

or i get which ones are yours?

**PRINCESSDAISYFLOWER** · 28-09-2010, 06:34 PM

I was in the que at the post office a few weeks ago. There was me with my baby bump. mindee 3, ds 23months and mindee 13 months.

there were 2 old biddies behind me started chatting about me

" look at her! obviously here to get her benifits and look at all those poor kids must be different dads!"

to which i turned round and said "shocking isnt it and they all have different mothers too"

Im sure they are still standing there trying to work that one out!

**caz3007** · 28-09-2010, 06:37 PM

Originally Posted by PRINCESSDAISYFLOWER

I was in the que at the post office a few weeks ago. There was me with my baby bump. mindee 3, ds 23months and mindee 13 months.

there were 2 old biddies behind me started chatting about me

" look at her! obviously here to get her benifits and look at all those poor kids must be different dads!"

to which i turned round and said "shocking isnt it and they all have different mothers too"

Im sure they are still standing there trying to work that one out!

I never think if good things to say at the time, only after. Bet they stood there open mouthed and you could see their brains ticking away

**mamasheshe** · 28-09-2010, 06:39 PM

Originally Posted by PRINCESSDAISYFLOWER

I was in the que at the post office a few weeks ago. There was me with my baby bump. mindee 3, ds 23months and mindee 13 months.

there were 2 old biddies behind me started chatting about me

" look at her! obviously here to get her benifits and look at all those poor kids must be different dads!"

to which i turned round and said "shocking isnt it and they all have different mothers too"

Im sure they are still standing there trying to work that one out!

**Saranotts** · 28-09-2010, 07:13 PM

Best one for me, was from an entertainer called Simple Tom at the Robin Hood Festival, who took one look at all the kids with me, winked and with a grin said "I like's a busy woman" my friend and I still giggle at that.

The problem is when people say "gosh, you've got your hands full", I always feel the need to justify looking after all the children and that they are all well looked after.

**Blaze** · 28-09-2010, 07:16 PM

to the different mothers & I likes a busy woman comments - made me properly laugh out loud!

**Helcatt** · 28-09-2010, 07:44 PM

Regularly get that comment when out with the triple. Are they triplets? No, there's 13 months in total between the three, with my lo is in the middle. Or people assuming that its a set of twins and then a younger sibling (my wild redhead of a daughter could not pass for being related though the other two could, at a push be confused for brothers)

Or when I have two, lots of twins comments and then very confused when I say that there are 6 months between them - they really can not work that one out!

When people ask how I cope, I usually say that 'its tiring but its great fun, and the best part is, I hand some of them back at the end of the day'

I love the comment about the different Dads

There's many a day where I could ahve happily had a sign on the buggy saying

No, they are not triplets
No, they are not twins
No, they are not even siblings
Yes, sometime it is hard to push a triple buggy up a hill!
Yes, it is a wide load

HX

**Chell** · 28-09-2010, 08:05 PM

Slightly OT as it is about my own kids but this thread reminded me. We were staying in a hotel a few weeks ago. At breakfast the manager asked if my two DDs were twins. DD2 had just turned two but is very small for her age. DD1 is five and a jhalf but very tall. She wear size 7-8 clothes for the length. Luckily I had my back to him as I sat PMSL that he could possibly think that they are twins.