To ask you to tell me something lovely.

My baby girl has started squealing in delight and laughing which is the cutest thing

I’m home from hospital on my
dogs birthday 🥰

My 3rd and final baby is smiling more and more. My middle child has finally recovered from a horrific illness and my eldest has come on leaps and bounds these last few weeks. At one point we were told he was non verbal autistic, now he's the chattiest, most confident, happiest little soul. I'm feeling very grateful. Hope you have a better week OP!

DD17 just triumphed playing the lead in her musical theatre group production. People were talking around me about how good she was without knowing I was her mother. Pride is not the word I"m looking for....

I went out for a walk early this morning. Most of the people I crossed in my walk were teenagers/early 20s. Everyone said "good morning" as we passed.

For the last 6 weeks my boiler hasn’t been working. Weather changing, kids in the house I was worrying and needed it to be working.

contacted 4 different gas safe engineers all of which didn’t get back to me.

Recommendation from a friend for one who couldn’t get to me for another 3 weeks, I booked him, got a date & time in the diary. Worked for British Gas for over 25 years, his family lived behind my family 2 generations back, I know them well. His parents knew my grandparents and parents as neighbours for decades!

He actually turned up at the time agreed, did his thing worked on the boiler for around 90 minutes.
Said goodbye and would send me the bill…. Bill arrived.. £80 for a service.

When I asked him about the repairs he said he only had to adjust some settings picked up by his calibration device so he did a service, boiler is a good one, in really good condition but settings had gone a bit wonky.
Lovely lovely man! Tradesmen like that are gold dust.

My team won tonight's church quiz.
Prize of a big bar of Dairy Milk each.

My 9yo DS has been going through a particularly difficult phase behaviour-wise recently. Every day has felt like an uphill struggle. The other night, I went to tuck him in as normal and we had a chat about it. The next day, I picked him up from school and he handed me a homemade envelope made out of school notebook paper, and inside it was a little note that says “I love you Mama. Thank you for always listening to me.” 🥹🥹🥹

I have had long covid for 18 months which has affected my sense of taste/smell. Today I could taste pickled cucumber for the first time since I became unwell!

My DD (currently in final year of A levels) has had terrible health over the last couple of years - thankfully now much improved. But she's missed a lot of school and her predicted A level grades aren't what she was hoping for.

She is still ambitious (and obstinate!), and she put in her university applications for the particular unis she wanted, even though they were pretty aspirational and her predicted grades meant that she might not get any offers from any of them. But last week one of them gave her an offer, and the grades they're asking for are ones that she might actually get. It has boosted her confidence so much to know that she might be going to a uni she really wants. Her illness had made it seem practically impossible before.

This made me get teary 🥹

Aw thank you for this thread op - some very beautiful posts on here ❤️

This isn't from today but I'm still riding the high of it.

My 6 year old DS who is autistic and has never strayed outside the same... 7 or so safe foods ate fish fingers and chips for dinner! Last week he also ate a mc Donald's happy meal! It's an absolute break through. Only a few months ago he was having meltdowns if he even saw a non safe food on his plate! Eating a mc Donald's was out of the question, he even had his lunch box of safe foods with us for him to eat but he asked for a happy meal like his friend and brother, we got it expecting him to just want the toy and probably cry when it was put down but he just ate the whole thing. I was holding back the tears I was so proud of how fat he's come.

One of my pedigree sheep is very old, 13, and her twin died last month, she was lonely and got a bit thin. Today I noticed she's chummed up with another old girl and was happily skipping around in the sun. It really warmed my heart, they are such endearing animals 😊

My dd21 has found her dream hamster after her other one passed away. Shes been looking for the perfect replacement for ages and has now found ‘the one’ 😊

Had some money go missing at work ages ago and although my boss 100% trusts me, l still felt like l was under suspicion. Anyway it turned up this week in a totally random place so a big relief! And my boss had forgotten all about it!
I hadn't!

My elderly mum with dementia and breast cancer said to me thank you for being you ❤️

Had a very kind e-mail from a parent from one of my difficult classes, it concluded with 'We Appreciate You.'

It's a very difficult class. It meant the world.

Some really cute, sweet, endearing stories on here! 😍

I've not read a book in over ten years.... This week I've finished 3. It's great to get back in to reading!!

My son, who has autism, has just completed the first week of his first job. He's dealing so well with travel logistics, learning new skills and interacting with colleagues. Massively proud of him and it's wonderful to see his growing confidence.

I went to my favourite coffee shop this morning. I sat outside, looked up and in front of me was a tree with beautiful autumn leaves. It looked great against the bright blue sky and with the sun shining on it.

Bus fares, were a pound today. You could go wherever you wanted in the county for a pound. Special Weekend.

Awww, I'm so glad. 😍

My DH finally has finally had the very complex operation he's been waiting nearly 3 years for.
He's not out of the woods yet as other issues have developed while he's been waiting but I think we might get that retirement we hoped for.
Feeling quite optimistic.
Hope next week is better for you @SheepytheDuck