I want to live vicariously through you tell me about the great stuff in your life

Lovely thread. So glad for all of you whose seriously ill DC are recovering and doing well. I also have a DC with a condition- not as serious as mentioned on here- but it's manageable. Nevertheless I need to get away from the caregiver role sometimes.

I had posted upthread about how I am finally doing a lot of theatre, gigs, music and dance in my 50s now I no longer need childcare and DC are doing their own stuff. On reading back it sounds a bit insensitive and cruel in a CoL crisis. So I thought I would share that I use a seatfiller site to get cheap deals, and I often go alone, so I get better seats. I have already posted this in another forum, but I went to Swan Lake in the Round on Friday at the Royal Albert Hall in a great seat for only £15 using this seatfiller site . All Show Listings | London | Central Tickets. I am now a premium member and get tons of cheap deals, though there is also a lot of junk. I am in London Zone 3, so obviously easy for me to go last minute.

In my 50s, I feel the need to have a bit of veauty and wonder in my life, as I have spent so many years taking care of everyone else but myself!

@Meetingofminds , so happy for you too

Thats lovely @Bectoria2006

My daughter finished her GCSEs today. She started secondary school shortly after having finished treatment for cancer. We had no idea how the treatment had affected her learning and memory. She has surprised us all!

5 years on she will have her last scan (fingers crossed) this summer before she starts college and is living her best life. She has some complications but overall is doing better than we ever hoped.

There have been lots of emotions and happy tears today (from me!!)

DH and I dropped the kids off at breakfast club and school today and played tennis for over an hour in the sun before starting work today. Was bliss.

A nice one from me today is being put on new meds and I swear I can already feel a difference (for the better) on the first day!

Also my dd is winning an award, which I am very very proud of her for. As a single mum these things both feel like massive wins 🏆

It's almost the weekend and I have successfully stuck to my diet plan and not had any sugar or alcohol since Sunday and have already lost 1.5kg as a result so am feeling very positive and excited about this summer finally managing to shift 10kg and get out of the 'too fat to wear my favourite jeans' category. Hurrah!

Also, I transplanted tomato seedlings to bigger pots and they did not die.

I decided to retrain in a new career, started a course on aircraft maintenance at a vocational college down the road from me last autumn. I've now finished the theory part of the course, passed all my exams (which is quite an achievement considering most of my class failed the last few exams we did) except for one essay exam I'll resit in September and I recently checked my grades and I'm getting top grades in all but one subject, which has second top grade (and physics hasn't been graded yet but I expect top grade for that too as I got 90% in the exam and contributed in class) and I did all this while severely anaemic (found out at the end of term - should have booked my check up at the beginning of the year!) so I feel really quite proud of myself.

In the autumn I'll be doing my work placement, building wooden seaplanes, and I'm very excited about it. I loved working on the planes at school, feels like I've finally found what I want to do (previously a cleaner, which I very much did not enjoy)

Lake swimming is my favourite kind of swimming. I live a couple of minutes walk from a lake, there's a little swimming jetty behind the old church hall (now a private dwelling but the swimming jetty is still in public use, thankfully) and I love to just go down there for a swim, sometimes several times a day (on very hot days). The water is lovely and if I'm lucky there's no one else around and I can swim in peace. Nothing better than floating on your back watching the clouds and listening to the birds - so much better than any swimming pool!

@Godnotthisagain Thank you and I hope your friend is feeling well again soon. Everyone's hysterectomy journey is so different.

My DP is the stuff of dream, he's a handsome Viking who looks amazing and is as sweet and kind as you could ever wish for. I adore every large inch of him and he loves his family. I have a lovely house, a wonderful daughter who is so clever and loving, a lovely stepson who makes me laugh constantly, and two bonkers, smelly, idiotic dogs who are my greatest supporters. And a slightly terrifying cat....
My sweet peas are doing well and I've just got a new job that I'm so excited about. Life ain't bad!

I'm just travelling back from a week doing a quite perfect job. It literally landed on my lap and has snowballed into something really quite interesting.

I'm moving house at the weekend. Back to the house ex DP and I bought together. I moved out years ago, he's moving and giving it back to me.

I feel like circles are being squared with very little input from me and I'm very grateful.

Thanks I enjoyed this lovely thread which I worked my way through during the night feeds with my baby. He is our little bit of happiness right now. Our third time lucky after two miscarriages and so adored by us all. Hope the sun is shining where you all are today

DS and I are planning trips by train to a couple of nearby cities - both into history so enjoy museums and a bit of shopping. Big family holiday planned for end of August.
House needs a big tidy so we have ordered a skip. I may even tackle the lawn at some point - has always been DHs job!!

Me too!!!! What are your plans for the summer? I'm thinking a couple of holiday breaks abroad, sorting out the house and garden, and a trip to London. Any other ideas?

Tomorrow we're heading down to Cornwall for a week with our DDs who are home from university. We've blown the budget and are staying at the most gorgeous cottage over looking the river. DH and I have a huge, free standing copper bath in our en suite! We're planning picnics on the beach, lots of walks and playing French cricket. Also got a table booked at Rick Stein's. Cannot wait!

I live in a nice house, mortgage-free and with no structural/damp/roof/window etc. problems
I have a wonderful husband
We have enough money to live on
I have a lovely family
The last CT scan following breast cancer treatment showed no recurrence

However it has not always been like that and I feel very lucky. There are lots of things I would like, my health back, more money for holidays and so that I could retire, a swimming pool! But I am very happy with what I have.

This is such a beautiful thread! Love reading about little things in life that make others happy. It was DS sports day yesterday and he won one of his races so he was so happy but I just loved seeing how happy he was taking part in all the races. Every time he ran past me and DH he would give us the biggest smile and wave. It was a great day.

sounds utter bliss.

These posts are so lovely!

I love to appreciate the small things.
I'm having a gorgeous, peaceful morning, my working week is done.

School run combined with dog walk, home to peg out the first load of laundry and now I'm sitting in the garden with a pot of tea and a croissant, listening to the radio and the birds singing their hearts out.
This is my bliss.

Oh my gosh. I'm in the newborn trenches. Can I visit? 🥹 Sounds lovely!

there is a Robin in my garden that follows me around. I've never fed him, so not sure why. adorable little thing.

That's the best one I have read. A friend of ours is having a rough time at the moment as she is right in the middle of the same thing having had her op a couple of months ago. Her recovery hasn't been quite as quick but she's getting there.

Wonderful to read an account from someone with a positive outcome. Thank you.

What a lovely thread!

My life is not problem free, but:

I am staying with my parents for a day or two. I love them, and this house, which I was actually born in.

I got a promotion at work recently and am loving my job - it is really fulfilling.

My partner and I have really started to talk more openly recently and work on our relationship. I now think we can have a brilliant future whereas previously I have worried we wouldn't make it. We have both started to learn the art of compromise.

I only have a few friends but they are loyal and funny and amazing women and I love them. I have plans to meet up with each of the most important ones in the next week or so.

My lovely daughter is going camping at the weekend with friends. Can't wait to hear all about it - I think it will be great.

We bought a holiday home a couple of weeks ago that we've been yearning for, for 25 years.

It is a specific house that we narrowly lost out on buying 25 years ago when we lived nearby and have always regretted not getting it. The plan was to have it as our primary home, but we were were simply outbid. It then sold again just before covid for the first time in about 20 years, before we even realised it was on the market (devastated).

Last year we were on holiday in the area and decided to pop a letter through the door. Well lo and behold we got a response in April this year and we got the keys 2 weeks ago.

Unfortunately our lives are now firmly established 2 hours away so moving here full time is out of the question at the moment, but this will be our seaside bolthole for the next 20 years and then we will retire here.

5 bed detached, 1.5 acres of gardens, 100 meters from a lovely quiet, non touristy beach with lots of walks for the dogs. It is literally everything we wanted and the best bit is that we are in a place in life that we could buy it mortgage free so we don't have to airbnb it to make ends meet, it will remain our own private bolthole for us and our families. We are absolutely on cloud nine at the moment, we have been here for the last 2 weeks (yes we took the kids out of school but I don't care!).

DW and the kids have to go home this weekend, I have to leave tomorrow as I've got a job to do in London on Friday and need to travel home first for kit, but we can leave it all set up so we can now pick the kids up from school at 3:15 on a friday, zoom down here and be settled in before 6! No need to pack or plan or anything, everything is here.

SO SO SO HAPPY!