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

My dd, who had a bit of a wobbly time towards the end of secondary school and didn't know if she even wanted to go to uni, has just done really well in her end of first year exams and is coming to do a talk at my school about her course. I'm really proud of her. Ds seems to have smashed his GCSEs and has got a place at a great school for next year. We're all off on a lovely holiday together in July.

I’m on countdown to go away with my adult dd to see Taylor Swift, feel happy she wants to share this with me as it’s been a hard few years, getting divorced. We are going for full on sparkles 🙈 I’m getting on a plane on my own, first time in 30 years!

I am starting a new job in September but different to what I was doing before and working for a friend in her business so will be very different. I only had 3 months mat leave before going back to work full time for financial reasons, so this is my time with my son.

Then YANBU!

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This sounds great!

Tempted to tell my DH I'm stressed by having to work too and Jack it in. A whole summer just lazing around while he provides for us sounds blissful in all honesty.

I've just got back off a six day holiday to Greece with some very good friends, we laughed so much, drunk ourselves silly and thoroughly enjoyed every second!

Our tadpoles have grown legs and we have a newt in our year old pond.

I had surgery three and a bit weeks ago, having waited over 18 months, and it's been great overall but have really missed being able to walk the dog. This morning I walked him and we were both thrilled I could, he was a very happy bouncy boy and I loved getting the fresh air. Lots of belly scratches for him once I'm done with work!

I’ve recently given up work as my husband could see how stressed I was getting. DS has just left High school and we have loads of things planned for the summer.

At short notice (Friday afternoon last week) I managed to rearrange my days at work this week (they are very flexible like that) and spend Mon and Tue helping with a school sailing course on the Norfolk Broads. Stunning location, the weather was pretty good considering how grim it has been, and the kids were well behaved. I'm now back work (but actually looking at riverside houses on the Broads on Rightmove, trying to workout how to afford one :-))

I think my DD has recently turned a corner from being a grumpy, moody teenager and gone back to the cheerful, chatty, thoughtful child that I always hoped was still hiding in there somewhere

lovely News …..hope the rest of her treatment goes well 🍀

I caught a hedgehog on my wildlife cam, been hoping there was one for ages and now i have proof (a brief glimpse of a spiky bum). Has made me ever so happy.

I'm just packing as I am off to the IOW festival tomorrow! Very excited, it has been sometime since I last went to one, the weather will hopefully hold out and I get a break from my lovely, but tiresome 3 and 6 year old!

Looking forward to Prodigy, The Streets and PetShop Boys!

What is the AIBU here?

This is wonderful!

That is amazing news. Sending you and your dd all the best ❤️

I am usually very busy but today I’ve been very lazy and literally sat on my arse watching numerous travel vlogs on you tube - ironically living my life through them and then giving you my life to live through here 😳🤣 and I’ve just eaten whatever I fancy, lovely fish finger sandwich with salad on fresh bread and then tea and chocolate. Then I went out and did some gardening and watered the plants. It’s been a really nice day.

My adult daughter is having treatment for breast cancer. Today we decided to have lunch at her favourite place before her mid-way ultrasound. We had a lovely, chatty lunch and then got a call from the genetic counsellor telling us that her cancer is not from a faulty gene, which had been a huge stress factor for her. And then we were told that her tumour has already shrunk to half the original size and there is no sign of spread to the lymph nodes, despite some swelling that was worrying her.

Right now, that feels pretty great to us!

This is the loveliest thread. I get home every night to my husband, I truly fancy and adore him as much as I did when we first met. We are trying for a baby and life is so exciting. I never even used to think I was maternal, I just love him so much every moment indoors together is a dream and its lovely to be this obsessed..my boyfriends before him all cheated and treated me terribly. It all seems worth it now to end up here :)

I escaped an abusive marriage 2 years ago. I have 3 wonderful children though. I met a new partner and he is a walking green flag, we are so happy and taking things at a slow pace but really see a future in it. I've got a new job, huge pay rise and I have bought my own place. I've got 4 (!) holidays booked in the next 12 months. Unashamedly living my best life :)

I am living my best life in my fifties, now that my childcare years are done. I spend every week going to the theatre, museums, galleries, talks and gigs.

I do all this on a reasonable budget with seatfiller or cheap tickets. I also go away by myself on weekend trips as often as I can manage.

It's my time now, and I refuse to feel guilty.