What's the loveliest thing that anyone has ever said to you and it really registered?

Oh Apple I'm crying now!!

We had a long hard struggle to conceive DS, and due to fertility issues he will be our only child. He is autistic with severe speech delay.

Last spring when DS turned 3 I was really struggling with the fact that I'd never heard my own child call me "Mummy" - something that everyone else just seems to takes for granted. I was talking to a very wise and lovely lady ay my church, and expressing frustration that I felt I had been waiting forever to be called Mummy. It was a small thing, but just mattered to me - a lot.

She patted me on the shoulder and said, "Apple, he calls you Mummy all the time. You just don't hear him yet". Needless to say, I burst into floods of tears.

But I held onto her words through some difficult times! I still well up when I think about it.

DS finally said "Mummy" three days before Christmas.

'I can't believe you're a real person!' Dh in a tipsy stupor when we first started going out

Yesterday, the chairman of the board of the company I work for told me that, if it wasn't for me, he genuinely believes we would have gone bust 18mo ago.

I am still speechless as this had not even crossed my mind before.I was just getting on with my job. :)

at Franca

Sobbing at some of these

A friend "You are the kindest person I know"
DDad "You're turning into your Mum, you have unbelievable patience and love for your children"

And last week DN was off nursery and given the choice of dsis taking the day off work or spending the day with me, she chose me [preening Auntie]

My parents have each seperately told me i'm a ' fantastic Mum' which made me wobble a bit ( always worried i'm getting it horribly wrong )

And just lately was in the presence of two friends when one turned to the other and said " Duchess has delightful children, happy and kind and polite " nearly bawled there and then !

Children stuff, it will stay with me forever ... another one though which made my day, week, month, life ! My best friend and i were talking about our DHs and i admitted i've never felt good enough for him, even though he has never been anything but absolutely lovely to me, when she said " really ? because one night he told me that he couldn't wait to marry you so he could show you off, and couldn't possibly imagine life without you , you're the love of his life " i started crying there and then !!

A 4 yr old ds once entered the bathroom while I was waxing my very hairy calves and asked me what was I doing. I said "I am waxing my hair, ds" and he said "Oh why? it is beautiful", while stroking my (very hairy) calves...

It still warms my heart, bless him.

I still get dewy eyed.
Especially as like mst teenage boys he ended to look at me as if I was a slug with legs

A girl on my course told me that she is always pleased to see me because I am so smiley and it makes her feel happy. I am going through an awful time at the moment and thought I was wondering around with a face like a boot. Her comment made me feel a lot better and I think I make more an effort to be that smiley person now.

I don't have much confidence about a lot of things. I had a crap education but I feel I have some common sense.
Ds1 had been to his interview at Oxford.
When he came back he was raving about two of the women he met there.
He said 'they were great. Other than you and my English tutor at school they are the smartest women I have ever met. You should have gone to uni mum - you have no idea how brilliant you are'

I still fill up thinking about it and it made me feel much braver about things.

DD 2.5 has just started saying 'I loves you sooo much' and 'mummy you're luffly'

My auntie earlier this year told us our 2 DC do us proud. I felt like saying 'wait til the terrible twos really hit'

A friend (who'd I'd only known a couple of moths through work as a nanny) told me (after I said that I didn't know if I'd have kids...I don't reckon I'll be very good at it as at least I can hand my charges back...was slightly jokey!) I absolutely had to have children, it would be such a waste of me if I didn't

I realise most people would be about it, but it's genuinly one of the nicest things ever said to me

I have realy struggled with our ds at times, and often feel like a crap mum

One of my friends told me I was her mummy mentor. (she asks my sdvice lots on parenting issues) When I laughed and said but I am hardly a good role model, look at how hard I find ds, she said, that is why you are my mummy mentor, I watch you dealing with him and you are so wise, I hope I am like that as a mum too.

it was possibly one of the nicest things ever said to me.
Still not sure it is true (had majorly crappy morning with ds this morning) she doesn't see me shouting when I am at the end of my tether, but I treasure it.

Worra I'm afraid it's quite the opposite where we are concerned. I can be ready and sitting enjoying a glass of wine and he'll still be faffing around deciding which colour shirt to wear!

"You're one of those girls who thinks they can act like a bitch because they're pretty."

At the time I thought I was a right minger, so that perked me up.

I watched a crap film with dh about some people who resorted to cannibalism whilst stranded up a snowy hill. I asked him afterwards if he'd eat me if I carked it in that situation. He said he'd lie down next to me, hold my hand and die himself as it wouldn't be worth going on. I think perhaps he just thinks I'd be full of gristle and bones...

I did overhear a conversation not meant for me once and the absolute love of my life at that time (aged 17, didn't know he knew I existed) said to his mate "showy's the sort of girl you could take away for a weekend, spend all your money on her and just be grateful if she even let you hold her hand for five minutes". And let's be clear here folks, I'd have let him hold more than my hand. That meant a lot actually. I'd adored him from afar since we started secondary school and was so desperately in love with him that I couldn't even look directly at him, let alone speak to him. We became friends later, still friends now, and he admitted to me one night (he was tipsy) that he'd spent 7 years of school/college steeling himself to speak to me but was frightened he'd blurt out 'I love you' and I'd cry with horror and he'd have to open his wrists immediately. It made me feel very special. High School was shitty and I felt very unloved.

My dad visiting me in hospital after having ds and he said ' I could't be prouder, I really couldn't'

I had a customer tell me at work that I was wonderful and that I'd made their day with how helpful and nice I was to them, and thank me for sorting them out.
Its such a simple thing but it made me a bit wibbly because so many people are rude to you when you work in retail

In a school report in the sixth form, 'Margaret, as her name implies, is a pearl in our midst, whose lustre never dims!' Didn't appreciate it at the time, but it was rather nice, wasn't it? Not at all creepy!

I saw an ex a little while ago on the bus. We'd had a bad break up - neither of us were well mentally at the time, and it could have only ever ended in tears. Anyway we were sat next to each other on the bus chatting, and I blurted out, "I'm sorry." He smiled at me, gave my hand a quick squeeze, and told me that he only remembered the good bits. We went past a fountain that we used to meet by, and DS was talking about it, I said, "Yes that is the fountain, well done", to which ex smiled and said, "Yes, it's the best fountain in the world!"

I'd carried around the upset and embarrassment of what had happened for years, and it physically lifted the weight. We're both happy now - I'm with DP, and he got engaged over Christmas - and it was just so nice. Also fought against my filters of ''If I upset someone once they will hate me forever''.