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

Trail running. Love it. Love powering up hills.

‘Very’ mature student doing an MA. I oscillate from ‘can’t do this’ to ‘this is fab’. Currently in a ‘this is fab’ hour.

I've recently got back into playing the piano, which is such a joy. I achieved Grade 8 in 2016 at the age of 18 after having played since the age of 4, but was unfortunately forced to give it up when I went to uni/moved out of my parents house/got my first job in the city etc.

However now I have my own house with my husband, I got my own piano as well and it really does feel like I never stopped playing!

I’m in my very late 30’s and have just booked a 4 day dance music festival in Malta! Do love a good festival at least once a year, won’t be stopping any time soon.
Also my new air b&b business is going well - just gearing up for the most important bookings of the year in a couple of weeks - eek!
This is a lovely thread, thank you - it’s been a challenging year but it’s nice to focus on the positives.

I'm just about to announce my retirement after 39 years in the workforce.

I’ve been off work since December last year and I’m taking the rest of this year and half of next year before I look for work.

I had a serious burnout last year and closed my business. We’re comfortable and DD is almost finished as a trainee solicitor so we don’t have any dependents. So DH insisted I take 18 months to recover.

I walk, swim, listen to music, crochet, watercolour paint and I’ve read 48 books so far this year. I’m not totally better but I feel much better than last year.

I'm about to apply to a Masters program starting in September. If anyone has the chance for some extended time off take it! Don’t wait until you burn yourself out so badly that your body literally makes you stop.

I used to find running really painful, so always gave up. Long story short, I had awful pelvic pain during pregnancy (pgp) that stayed for 2 miserable years after I had the baby. This led me to finding an amazing physio, who through an intensive ten week programme changed the way I walk, stand, and taught me to lift weights and introduced me to barefoot shoes.

it totally worked for me and now I am pain free.

This week I dared trying running again....... and ran 4 miles! I can't believe it! I ache a little (obvs!) but not in pain. I am so chuffed. Excited about doing more and getting fitter into my glorious middle age :) :)

I went to my friends and spent the afternoon with a ten week old puppy snoring on my lap.

I'm in the process of packing up my house after 10 very happy years abroad to move across the world to a new country. Today I took a load of really nice toys and clothes my baby has grown out of to a local Roma family (they are not treated well here). The smiles and thanks were just pure unadulterated joy that for a minute I completely forgot about all the stresses and anxiety about the move and was just able to enjoy the moment. Especially as it is Eid.

Really?

I have decluttered my whole home and my life.
I made a thread about it.
Feels great 😃.

My cat, who is friendly but not a lapcat, or even a sit close to you cat, chose to join me on the garden chair and actually sit right next to me. Which was lovely.

I was reading through this lovely thread, and came across @Milosmum61 post - that's wonderful news for your DD.

And it also reminded me of being on a similar thread 15 years ago, when I posted that I had just received the letter discharging my baby DD from the care of the paediatricians, fully recovered from her shaky start in life in SCBU. Tomorrow, I'll be taking my beautiful 16-yo DD to her prom. And all I can think about now is how I wept when I got the letter, and lovely MNetters celebrated with me!

Oh and my tiny strawberries are delicious.

Went sea swimming with DD yesterday evening. Stayed in for a while in our wetsuits, swimming across the bay and spotted some horseshoe crabs as the visibility was good. Swam out to some rocks and heard the sea birds and some music from the shore - old classics. On the way back we swam through a sun trail and warm currents.

My DS and his partner are expecting a healthy baby girl after a missed miscarriage the week before Xmas,my DIL spent Xmas recovering from a D & C so we're thrilled for them;this is the first grandchild on both sides and first neice for all their siblings.

This Christmas will be baby's first Christmas so what a différence a year makes

My little dog is on my feet while I lie in the garden under a fluffy blanket in the evening sun watching my husband and son-in-law building a garden shelter for the new outdoor kitchen. Lovely.

This is for particularly for the mothers of young sons. Mine are all grown up, have lovely wives / partners, we all get on well, live within half an hour of each other and see lots of each other. No drama. It’s lovely. I appreciate every minute of it. It can happen!

DH and I are retired - well almost retired. A chilli is cooking in the oven, DH is putting on the rice and chopping a pepper and then we’ll have a glass of Cremant de Loire while watching Celebrity Catchphrase (bugger the football).

I can see the Three Sisters in the Canadian Rockies from my bedroom window.

I'm sunbathing on my new deck in a house we bought and renovated. We are having the gardens done professionally after years of being frugal and saving. The kids are happy and have left home and I just booked a holiday for my husbands 60th I honestly could not be happier xx

I was given 2 tickets for an excellent tribute band as part of a birthday present.
I'm going tonight with a friend I don't see very often.
As an extra treat we're going out to eat first at my favourite local restaurant and to have a long overdue catch up.
I'm really excited about it!

I had a difficult work meeting supporting someone, and afterwards I walked into the field behind my house and lay on the grass for half an hour listening to a radio 4 drama. It was so sunny and lovely and reminded me that I need to take time to look after myself too.

What a gorgeous thread!

Im still at work but I’m all smiles as I’ve just got off a video call with my two grown up DDs (still my babies!) planning the weekend as they are coming to stay and going To see Taylor Swift. It was very funny and lovely I genuinely feel like the luckiest mom to have them.

Love this thread. I've got a she shed where i do all my arts and crafts and I've been pottering around out there today. May do some gardening later, it gives me a chance to look at all the tiny wildlife living their tiny lives in my garden.