Best day of your life so far

[capgemleopis]

Up late and thinking about some of the best days of my life so far. Goes without saying the day my children were born were my best days but other then that I think the day I found out my first born was going to be a little girl was up there and then probably the day I found out I was pregnant with my second baby was very special.

what about you?

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A Valentine’s Day spent in Amsterdam.

Leisurely breakfast.
Walk through light snow to the Van Gogh museum. Wonderful art.
Hot chocolate and apple cake.
Walk back through the snow and snooze in front of log fire.
Spot of sex.
Delicious dinner of lobster, steak, red wine.
Back to the apartment for more log fire, more red wine, spot more sex and a big fat bifter.

Pretty much the perfect day. I’m teetotal now, but I look back fondly.

I’m not going to include the birth of my children, as it says not to in the OP, and, to be fair, being in pain, sliced open and nearly dying made the days…mixed.

Oh woops didn’t see the bit about not including the birth of your children…well, there aren’t many other days that come close to those. I found my wedding day quite stressful (until I could start drinking haha). Sounds odd but getting my A Level results was a good day..I wasn’t expecting to do well, but got 3 A’s! A time in my life full of promise and excitement but without the stresses of adult life etc

The day I left home for Uni stands out. Travelling 6 hours with my dad, then moving into the halls and meeting lots of people. The sense of freedom and expectation! The whole of Freshers Week is right up there.

The time a group of us rented a canal boat in the Camargue. Breakfast surrounded by flamingos and wild horses. Lunch by the beach. The Captain's Cocktail party we threw. We drank copious amounts of wine and laughed and laughed.

Being in the South of France when dd was little - pool or beach all day, then getting showered and cool and sitting on the terrace with a glass of rose with something to throw on the BBQ.

Weekends away with the girls. Sunshine and cocktails and talking about absolutely everything and laughing.

Happy times - so many of them really! I feel really lucky with my life so far.

My wedding day! Over 30 years later…still very much in love! ❤️

@Fredflinstoneswife You should all be treated with disdain. There have been thousands of religions since humanity evolved the capacity to think, and they’ve all claimed to be right. Why didn’t your God appear before the Aztecs? The Mesopotamians? The babylonians? The Japanese or Chinese or native Australians or anyone before contact with the West a few hundred years ago? Was he happy for them to all go to hell, even though they’d not been offered The Word?

Why, despite your religion being the only true one, do the vast majority of the population of the world disagree? Not a very mighty god, or a very convincing one, given he’s supposed to be omnipotent.

Christians, Muslims, Jews, Shinto, Voodoo, what have you. It’s all nonsense, and the fact that an 11 year old being a sinner is an essential part of your faith tells us exactly how awful that faith is.

I'm not very traditional too. Sorry about your loss.

I can't choose.. It's between the day I found out I'd got into medical school, the day I passed my final medical school exams, the day I passed my final membership exams, and the day I got the phone call from my CD that I was successful at interview for my first (and current) consultant job.

You misread me. I said I'd grown up a devout Catholic. Like most rational adults of average intelligence, I soon outgrew the sort of religious belief that believes a set of heterogenous bits of history, advice, genealogies, poems, origin myths etc written down over a period of many hundreds of years, are the word of some kind of benign omnipotent creator deity.

And yes, it's profoundly disturbing that you imagined, age 11, that you had somehow sinned against a powerful deity who was prepared to forgive you because of some kind of propitiatory sacrifice 2000 years earlier by another aspect of the same deity.

Not a whole perfect day, but one of the best moments of my life that I can remember so vividly was when dd2 was about 4 months old. Was an unexpected pregnancy, dd1 was still so little to me, and I wasn't ready to share myself with another baby, spent the whole pregnancy riddled with guilt and worry, had a stressful birth, she wasn't the easiest baby, and dd1 seemed pretty unbothered about her arrival. Then one evening, dd1 was in bed, me and DH were downstairs with dd2, who was actually not crying or fussing, and heard some little footsteps at the bottom of the stairs... In comes dd1 who says "I can't stay sleep because I miss my sister too much 🥺" with big sad eyes. It was such a special moment, knowing how much she loved her little sister, feeling like, yes this was the right choice, and everything will be okay. They have been inseparable ever since, and really are best friends. Watching their relationship develop and evolve has been my favourite part of being a parent.

My 'pinch me' days are all holiday-related so will probably be seen as selfish. I know I'm very lucky to have experienced them. First sight of the Grand Canyon took my breath away, as did travelling by taxi from JFK to downtown New York. Came out of a tunnel and Bam - movie set! An alfresco dinner in rural France hearing nightingales singing across the valley. The Shanghai Bund at night. Horseriding in the Andes. So many wonderful memories.

My best days are also holidays.
I love my dc to bits but recalling their birth isn't a pleasant experience. I'm so happy they're here but that first 3 weeks can be erased from my brain happily.

One of my favourite memories is driving down mountain roads one summer in Yosemite, music blasting, my dsis and both our dc in the minivan. We were all really happy and I felt so free. Just the best day. Filled with laughter and happiness and the feeling that everything is perfect right there and then.

Definitely not the birth of my dc, those were quite traumatic days!

My best day was just an ordinary day. We went for a walk together, the weather was nice, the kids were getting along and inventing new games. We came home and went in the gardens, the dc's on the trampoline and me harvesting my peas. Dp surprised us by lighting a fire and we had a BBQ. Later we played some games around the fire and everyone was laughing and laughing.

Meeting my DH for the first time and coming to realise he was my soulmate & meeting my DS15 for the first time - he was 4.5 years old and had these big eyes and called me Mummy - was total love

The best day of my life was coming home from the hospital with my newborn son. I cried with happiness all the way and when we got home my neighbours children had made a welcome banner and put it in our window.

Being proposed to in Costa Rica and having my babies 🥰

Wedding day
Birth of each child
A spectacular professional achievement
Completing the Inca Trail and reaching Machu Picchu

Hasn't happened. Some small little things happen that are hide but generally nice and good things don't happen to me.

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Having my first scan in early pregnancy with my boy after a long time trying to conceive - seeing him wriggling around like a little prawn was overwhelming and emotional and just the biggest load of relief happy I've ever felt

Either the day I left home or the day after ds was born (and the drugs had worn off). 😊

Apart from the obvious (my children’s births and my wedding day, some days that really stand out as being just so….happy but also kind of normal).

*Walking through a field holding my boyfriends hand on a warm day when I was 17. He looked at some boys playing a football match and said “can’t wait to watch my two sons play”. I laughed and said “how do you know you’ll have two sons? because I’m having a daughter”. He chuckled and said “yeah we’re having two sons and a daughter”. I felt free.
We do indeed have two sons and a daughter.

• My last day of secondary school. Walking out on that last day, following the crowd with my signed shirt, knowing my life was just about to begin. I was euphoric. I hated school and felt free.

*When my dad left our home when I was 11. He said he was never coming back. I sat there and felt quietly very, very happy…. And free.

There are lots of similar days and the theme is always the same for me. A sense of freedom.

Being in Turin for Eurovision last year.

(My wedding day goes without saying!)

My eldest DDS graduation a few years ago. I'd brought her up alone , it hadn't been easy, and seeing her aged 21 all grown up and wonderful and proud... So many emotions, all of them good.

Wow this is very similar to the third best day of my life

Best two days my Dds arrivals
Just heaven

It yes the next best day was escaping an abusive bastard and having enough reason to be free for him for live (plus what he did that day was enough for me to threaten to get the Met police involved which I eventually did )