What have been the best and worst things that have happened to you this past decade?

[ElfByHimself]

Apologies if this has already been done.

Mine
Best: having my 3 dc

Worst: the death of several family members

Moving to the US
Moving to the US

Worst: being diagnosed with cancer.
Best: being told said cancer was stage 1.

• having DS.

Worst. After 30 years, our high street business could no longer stand increasing costs and rapidly falling footfall and we had no option but to close.
Best. After 30 years our high street business could no longer stand increasing costs and rapidly falling footfall and we had no option but to close. This meant we retired a few years earlier than we had planned, with a lower income than anticipted, but no more worrying about customers, staff and how are we to pay the bills, and we have enough to get by. Oh, and not having to get up unless we want to is wonderful.

Best: having my 1st child. DD is the absolute light of my life.
Worst: traumatic birth, near death of newborn DD, PND & PNA, near marriage breakdown.

Best: Having my wonderful son

Worst: My wife dying

Best meeting and marrying husband and having two children.
Worst. Cancer, traumatic birth employment tribunal.

Worst: DD nearly dying in an accident
Best: DD pulling through with only relatively minor health conditions to show for it.

Worst - fighting for support for ds, fighting to be believed, fighting for a diagnosis, watching him suffer whilst fighting for the correct treatment, fighting for support at a school who sees us as the enemy...
All this is mitigated by the Best Thing - ds and the (yeah yeah it's corny) journey we as a family have been on with him, to a diagnosis of an extremely rare genetic condition. He is an amazing one in seven billionish kind of boy.

Best- Meeting my husband, relocating and best of all birth of DD
Worst- Husbands bankruptcy caused by suicide of husband’s business partner

Best: moving to our new home just outside London
Worst: dd's battle with depression and anxiety largely due to a neuro developmental disability undiagnosed by and denied by CAMHS who refused any help when she was cutting and overdosing.

Best is birth of dds

Worst is death of close family members especially my sibling.

Best: having DD
Worst: exDH's MH falling off a cliff.

Best: having a daughter and I love my job. Worst: family members dying and due to genetics me having lots of surgeries

Worst: Mum dying, Nan & Grandad dying, divorce. Lost my job which was bad too but the other things put it into perspective. Started having panic attacks probably due to a combination of all of the above.

Best: meeting new DP, the DC are doing well (ups and downs of course but I think they’re ok overall), setting up own business.

Best: having ds, starting my nurse training, moving house, passing my driving test.
Worst: losing my mum and mum in law. Absolute worst two years of my life

Best: giving birth to my daughter

Worst: facing up to the abuse and having to run away with dd and rebuild our lives

Graduating from university and meeting DP was best

Worst, struggles as a family with DC's conditions and DP's mental health.

Best: moving abroad, marrying DH, having DS

Worst: losing my dad, mental health problems that are thankfully under control now

I'm just going to work by years!

Best: 2013 or 2014
Worst: 2017 and 2019

Absolutely the Best thing was having my DS it has been amazing
Worst thing was loosing my mum suddenly it has and is still, devastating

Worst: my mom dying. It wasn’t expected and such a shock. My so called best friend ghosting me the same year my mon died.

Best: meeting and marrying my wonderful DH. Buying our home and then making it feel complete with DDog

Getting divorced.

Worst: death of my first child and subsequent divorce, deep unshakeable sadness.
Best: having DS, passing my driving test, having the freedom to travel loads post-divorce, my wonderful job.

Best starting to love and respect myself after a lifetime of self hatred, guilt and fear due to a neglected childhood and all that brings.

Worst my daughter going off the rails in her early teen years, cross fingers things are going in the right direction now.

Best things: 2 dc and them growing up into individual people
Learned a few new skills (photography where I've won a few club level competitions etc and knitting and sewing)

Worst: depression
My lovely step-dad dying
Debt