Your happiest moment in life so far?

[LaraJ84]

Mine was as a very young adult, lying sleepy cuddling in bed under a cosy duvet with the guy I loved so deeply and completely. He was 1 year my senior at university. We were in his bedroom (in his parents house). ACDC posters on the wall. I wanted to stay there in that moment forever. We got engaged a few years later. He swore he'd love me forever.

Fast forward 8 years and he cheated on me and left me for a much younger woman (who he split with after just a few weeks). Hurt me then more than he'll, more than anything Ive ever experienced so far too, but it never took away from that "perfect moment".
Does anyone want to share their most perfect momemt in life so far?

Lovely thread. I have had so many it’s hard to say, but it’s not the big days, it’s the little things that brought me the most happiness.

Taylor Swift Eras Tour, the best atmosphere of female focused joy after so much anticipation. Perfection!

Wedding day after the nerves of walking down the aisle was also blissful. Pure happiness with everyone you love at the same party.

Birth I was out of it so doesnt rank as high!

Walking round Spitalfields market the weekend after I left my first husband. Peace, happiness and my own company.

The first time another person gave me an orgasm. I was fifty years old and in an extremely cheap Travelodge with a stranger about my age that I never saw again. The purity and simplicity of sex, two bodies, pleasure, afternoon sunlight. Nothing else mattered.

Lying in recovery with my second baby.

I’d such a shit birth experience with my first, my second was utter utter magic. I was talking about having another one before I had feeling back in my legs.

I can remember a moment of pure blissful happiness when I was around 20yo and was doing camp America. One weekend myself a friend borrowed a car and drove into the Californian mountains, it was absolutely beautiful and I felt young, beautiful and completely free.

God I really can’t think 😂 my life is generally very stable and happy so I don’t have many stand out highs or lows. The lows stand out more. I am married with 3 kids but those 4 times always felt just surreal and out of body! Obviously very happy phases of life but not a specific moment.

Birth of our only daughter.
Her first graduation (going to her 2nd on Tuesday)
She hadn't had the best university experience so her achievement was mind blowing.

I can relate to that!

The first scan I had of my pregnancy with DS1, seeing his heartbeat and realising it was all actually real and I was going to have a baby.

Giving birth to DS2 - water birth attended by an incredible midwife with my husband cheering me on, on a sunny spring evening. The look on DH's face as he held our baby and whispered to him.

And then just a few weeks ago, bringing baby DS3 home to meet his two big brothers and my mum. Seeing the joy on their faces and knowing that in that moment, everyone was happy and healthy and our family was complete.

I was diagnosed with PCOS at 13 and told I might never have children, and so I feel so very lucky to have conceived naturally three times and to have had straightforward, easy pregnancies. It's definitely not how I saw my life turning out 10 years ago and has changed my outlook on very many things.

My dh is dyslexic. He was quite badly bullied at school, called thick, stupid etc. his siblings did well in education and went straight into well paid jobs after uni. Dh worked very very hard to work his way up into his job. His parents always bang on about his successful siblings and never mention how well my dh has done to get where he is now.

this year our first child graduated with a first class honours degree. He was quietly chuffed and told her how proud he was of her. We travelled with her and younger dc to watch her graduate. My dh doesn’t show much emotion. I’ve only seen him cry when our dc were born. But as our dd walked towards us wearing her cap and gown just before the ceremony he just burst into tears, big sobs, and we all just hugged him all crying. In that moment I think a weight lifted from him. It was a perfect happy moment I’ll never forget.

Interraling was great back in the day! I travelled around Europe and Morocco. It didn’t cost an arm and a leg either!

I can relate, I remember looking at my firstborn and couldn’t believe a few minutes ago they had been inside me!

That's fabulous, well done!

When I walked back down the aisle hand in hand with my new husband after signing our marriage certificate . It was a moment of utter joy and elation.

Having my first son and just laying in the bed staring at him. When my mum was told her cancer was in remission (sadly that wasn’t to last). Chatting and laughing and drinking in any restaurant with my sister, BIL and Dh. Such good times. When my son passed the Knowledge and drove off in his cab for the first time. My youngest son getting his degree. He really hadn’t enjoyed university. When he got his first job in The City. Could have cried. Going with my fabulous niece as she looked for a wedding dress. So much happiness. I feel blessed.

When I was 15 I walked through a french forest with the most beautiful dutch boy I had ever seen. We had a proper conversation and he listened to me and I suddenly wasn’t that little quiet girl at school that no one took seriously.

The day me and my brand new boyfriend (who I asked out - never done that since!) went to a big city on a train. We were 17 and looked in record shops all day. I felt so cool in my white jeans - a gorgeous day.

The moment my DS was born - no gas and air, no epidural- no time for anything. I got the big rush of love when I saw him and it was perfect

first day of my honeymoon in a cafe, my new DH ordered “porridge for my wife”. After all the stress of a wedding, I loved the honeymoon!

Having my beautiful babies 💛💛💛

Loads. Waking up with a lad I was crazy about after we finally got together and looking out the window from bed at the snow. Being pregnant and so full of expectations and excitement. When my children have made me proud. When my partner makes me laugh til my sides hurt which is often.

The day my Decree Absolute came through and realising that I was finally free from horribly abusive ex-H. The feeling of freedom and relief was amazing. I didn't stop smiling for weeks.

Last year, DH were on a Caribbean cruise, no DD just us, we had been on the beach all day in the amazing weather, and had got back to the boat and had a beer on the balcony as the boat pulled away and at that moment I just felt so happy and at peace, so very grateful. We have had some awful lows over the years and if someone would have said I’d even be here still at this age let alone on a cruise with a content happy DD at home I’d not have believed them so I feel so very lucky.

did a road trip around NZ and have a really clear memory of driving along, looking at the most unbelievable scenery, listening to music thinking it was one of the happiest moments of my life

Watching my grandchildren being born, happiest was the second one though, she flew out on the sofa before the midwife arrived. The feeling of knowing she was good along with mum, the relief of the midwife rushing in 5 minutes after, her sibling coming through and seeing mummy and a baby. All just a perfect storm of happiness.

When my little son learnt how to give kisses and spent all day kissing me all over my face

It was probably a moment I have completely forgotten. I’m happiest when I’m reading/learning/lost in thought, or when I’m someone quiet and empty and beautiful (i.e out in the countryside on a bright sunny day).

I remember walking on the Yorkshire moors with a friend a few years ago (sadly deceased). She was an academic and incredibly well-read. She was also a brilliant conversationalist. The moors were covered in snow and the sun was shining. Absolutely glorious day. No noise, no screeching cars, no ugly housing estates, just nature and silence and beauty. We were both in a good mood and, by sheer coincidence, had both been reading the same book (called The Age of Wonder, which was about the Romantics - Wordsworth, Coleridge, Blake, etc -and how they were interested in the new science). Sounds a bit dry, but it’s a wonderful book full of interesting little facts and anecdotes. The conversation just flowed beautifully. No boasting, no showing off, no pretentiousness or one upmanship, just two people really interested in the same thing and really interested in what the other person had to say. We stopped in a pub with an open log fire and continued talking all afternoon over a bottle of wine. The pub was pretty empty (my ideal), and there was a lovely, sleepy, relaxed feeling to the place. C S Lewis once said that two of life’s great pleasures are walking and talking, especially combined. So true.

i had been reading Peter Pan as a child, so one weekend my mum took just me (no siblings came!) on the tube to see The Peter Pan statue in Kensington Gardens. It’s one of the few times it was just me and my mum as she died when I was young.