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If you could relive one day again, which would it be?

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norbert23 · 02/02/2019 19:08

Just that really, you can't change anything but you could just enjoy every part of it again. Mine would be a day at uni where all of my friends hung out for st Patrick's day all day and the sun shone happily. Had such a lovely time! There are more poignant ones but that day was just tons of fun!

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Crunchymum · 02/02/2019 20:30

Would love to relive the first few months with DP. We "re-met" (were together for 3 years when we were teenagers) at the start of a beautiful summer and it was such a heady, carefree, romantic, emotion fuelled time!!

Kintan · 02/02/2019 20:31

Any day in summer from my childhood, just hanging out at home with my parents and brothers without a care in the world. I was lucky enough to have a pretty idyllic childhood surrounded by love, with everything taken for granted. Life has thrown a few curve balls since then!

Sparklingbrook · 02/02/2019 20:40

I don't want to repeat any particular day.

Would love to go back to the 80s for one night. Full time job, out nightclubbing at 16, dancing without a care in the world.

TroysMammy · 02/02/2019 20:43

The day my niece was born. All I could whisper to her that she and her Auntie would have so much fun. I was too choked to say anything else to her.

8 years on we have had a lot of fun together and she knows her Auntie loves her very much.

bobstersmum · 02/02/2019 20:50

I would like to revisit a few days really, it's hard to choose just one. But the day of our secondary school leaving party was just brilliant. It was before all the prom type shenanigans, we all just put our best grown up going out clothes on and the school had booked a room in a hotel for us with a dj, we were all together for what we knew was the last time, all so young but feeling really grown up, we kept going outside for fresh air in the warm evening and to take turns at swigging from giant bottles of cider, great music and just lovely memories!

The day I had my second dc was perfect, out of my three births, his birth was just amazing, everything went so smoothly, delivered in the pool in a gorgeous room high up with a really big window we could see the sun just coming up as he was born, it was really moving, there was no rush no fuss it felt like the most natural thing.

sparklesq · 02/02/2019 20:50

Any day in the school hols as a child. Being looked after by my parents, playing with DS, playing outside with friends, being tucked into bed, having no cares in the world.

3in4years · 02/02/2019 20:51

Any day spent in the sunshine on the beach, preferably with a good friend.

SilverDoe · 02/02/2019 20:53

The second summer after I started seeing my DP (we’ve been together six years now), there was a beautiful summers day and we went out walking a lot and probably for a drink, I don’t even remember exactly.

But I remember standing outside the house we were living in and he cuddled me, I could smell the fresh air on us and the flowers and the smell of him, and the sun was shining so bright it was filling up my eyes even through the darkness of my eyelids.

I’ve always felt that if heaven exists, it would be just like that moment. Warmth and light and love and happiness.

DobbyLovesSocks · 02/02/2019 21:06

I should go for my wedding day or the day my DS was born but I'm going to choose my first date with DH. Mainly cos I was 18 and had a killer figure. My friend helped me get ready, we went for a few drinks, told each other we thought we were falling in love. We also DTD and it was perfect. Yeah, I'd relive that

Goldangel · 02/02/2019 21:18

The night before my gran died (she raised me).
She wasn't well, I flew up to see her after work, she hadn't been eating but asked me to make her some porridge, I made her some and fed her, I sat with her until she asked me to leave as she was tired.
She died early the next morning, I was the first to see her.
I wish I had spent the night with her. I had so much more to say. She was an amazing woman.

EssentialHummus · 02/02/2019 21:30

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overitalready · 02/02/2019 21:31

I cant pick one so im going to be greedy!

DD15 will be my only & i would love to go back to that first week of motherhood & drink it all in.

The day i realised my abusive ex hadnt called me all day for the first time in months since i left him.

Being 7 so i could spend the day with my nanny & grandad

My wedding day knowing i had made the single best decision of our lives for me & DD

Tequilamockinbird · 02/02/2019 21:32

The day I got a call to say my terminally ill dad wouldn't make it through the night, and I should go to him straight away.

XP wouldn't let me go and locked me in the house. I so wish I'd had the strength to break out of the house, or stand up to the bastard.

Ddad did indeed die that night. I never said goodbye, and it continues to haunt me 16 years later Sad

Hassled · 02/02/2019 21:35

A day during a particular holiday - the DCs were a combination of teenagers and toddlers, the villa was amazing and came with a gardener who left us figs each morning, we all got on well, we hardly left the villa, we cooked great food - it was just the perfect time and place. Other holidays have had their share of stressy days - that one was just bliss.

Hassled · 02/02/2019 21:37

Tequila - I'm so sorry. That sounds awful. I'm so glad he's an ex now.

gingajewel · 02/02/2019 21:38

Two days for me!

First at my twenty week scan with dd1, I had two miscarriages before that and seeing her on the twenty week scan I had an over whelming feeling that everything was going to be ok. I was so happy and tearful and amazed!
My second day was when I realised I did actually love dd2! She was a tough baby, never slept, cried all day every day and had a bad dairy allergy, she was one and a half and was poorly at nursery, I went to get her and in that moment realised how much I loved her (I no it was a long time but she was so hard when she was little!)

IamFrauBlucher · 02/02/2019 21:39

A summer holiday day at my nans house. She looked after DB and I in the holidays sometimes when we were around 4 & 6.

We literally just pottered around with her in the kitchen, helping her to cook, eating chips in a bowl and watching Pebble Mill at one. My DB would help out DGD in the shed, which smelt of creosote and oil and was full of awesome stuff.

I would help water the tomatoes in the greenhouse and can remember that warm overwhelming green smell.

Sometimes we'd go down to the Italian corner shop for a 99 with raspberry sauce.

We didn't do anything really, compared to kids these days i guess. But it was such peace and warmth and love as our parents were violent and home was unhappy (DGP's were completely unaware). My DB and I got on when we were there, no bickering, no fighting.

I'd give anything for my DS to have just one of those days. He had no grandparents so he'll never have that experience. Sad

Izzy12345 · 02/02/2019 21:41

My wedding day for sure 😊

Exhsuatedmuch · 02/02/2019 21:42

A day in Dec 2017. Oddly my youngest was in hospital very ill and is asd so it was awful in so many ways. We were so worried and so far from home only one could stay so I stayed. She was so ill and so unhappy that it was killing me inside.

It started snowing outside and we were on the ward alone opposite a huge floor to ceiling window. It was so peaceful, I woke her to show her and she managed to get out of her bed and we sat next to the window for what seemed like hours. She's rarely emotional so we don't get cuddles or kisses etc. She just kept looking at the snow and smiling and then sat on my lap and put her arms around me and said it's so lovely mummy,love you.

I cried silently behind her.. She thankfully made a full recovery as we came close to losing her.. Although it was such an awful. Time I often think back to those few hours and wish we could go back and feel that way again.

Joysandsorrows · 02/02/2019 21:45

The one and only night my DH & I witnessed a sunrise together. It was September in Spain, we stayed up all night listening to the sound of waves. Talked about everything & anything. As the sun rose we took a photograph together. We looked absolutely shattered but I love it. The best night of my life.

CocoLoco87 · 02/02/2019 21:48

The day my first DC was born! I was FINALLY a mummy and I had waited all my life for that moment. It was just the best. DC2 was great too, but the first one was a whole new overwhelming exciting experience. And he's still a joy a few years later Smile

WhereAreAllTheUsernames · 02/02/2019 21:55

The day I first met my dp. I would love to go back to before I had my dc just so I could remember how things were when it was just me and him and feeling carefree.

SpaceCadet4000 · 02/02/2019 21:56

There's a few days on holidays that I would happily take again. But DH and I went on the most amazing fjord cruise in Norway and I'd sell a kidney to relive that day. It was something on both of our bucket lists and cost a crazy amount of money, but so worth it!

LittleMissEngineer · 02/02/2019 21:59

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MynameisJune · 02/02/2019 22:05

Too many to choose.

Any day before I was 13, running up the road in the early morning summer light and bursting intoy grandparents house demanding my Nana cook us bacon sandwiches. Going out in the garden and finding my grandad in his greenhouse. He died when I was 13 and Nan when I was let 20’s. I’d love to just see them again and hear their voices.

Any day just after DH and I met, one of the days where we would stay up all night talking about life and our plans for the future. Our DD is amazing and DD2 is, all being well, due later this year. But I’d love to go back to those carefree days just for one day.

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