1. Your blood pressure starts to rise when you see other people’s holiday snaps all over Facebook.
2. Your Outlook calendar on the weekend looks just as busy as your work days.
3. Your youngest child doesn’t have a passport. And he’s five.
4. Six coffees per day is your norm.
5. You catch the kids wearing their swimmers to school instead of underwear.
6. You keep catching little colds because your immune system is exhausted.
7. Your child, their teacher, your barista, your Mum AND your boss all tell you “You look tired” in the same day.
8. You’re completely out of mini shampoos and conditioners.
9. Your suitcases are used for storing winter clothes or dress-ups.
10. You’re swearing more. For no good reason.
11. You’ve readjusted your definition of a holiday to be a weekend without kid’s sports or birthday parties.
12. The kids desperately need some new content for ‘show & tell’.
13. You find yourself theming dinner each night to holiday destinations and your household is starting to get sick of tacos.
14. You’re on track to be this year’s workplace winner for the highest number of unused annual leave days.
15. The last 100 photos on your phone are screenshots of places you want to go but haven’t actually been to yet.
16. The holiday snaps on your desk at work are faded. Either you have an amazing sunny office space or it’s time for an update.
17. You’re putting off doing the laundry/making dinner/praising your child’s ‘art work’ by reading this list 😉
