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?

Telling my DP's that their grand-daughter was finally pregnant after years of infertility. The joy on their faces was something I will never ever forget. Sadly they both died a few months later (they both had terminal cancer) so they never got to meet their wonderful little great-grandson but I'm so glad they knew that their grand-daughter was going to become a mum

I don't know. I think probably new years day 2003. Dh and I had spent Christmas with our families but we did "our Christmas" together on new years day in our student flat. I had got a toastie maker for Christmas the week before so we cooked a roast together, opened presents and then had toasties for tea while watching a film.

Wow what attentive midwives you had!
Buggering off to the kitchen to make a cup of tea just as you were birthing the baby 😂

Same for me @SmallTortoise
DS2 got back from 1st term at Uni on Saturday night.
We sat round the table and had an Indian takeaway, listening to him talk about his new friends, societies etc.
My happy place is with my kids.

Without a shadow of a doubt, the birth of my DD. Looking at her and feeling that she was intensely familiar yet a stranger too, who I had been carrying for nine months, is with me still, nearly 23 years later.

Plus: passing my driving test. It took me ages to learn and I failed three tests. In my elation, I peeled a banana, lit a cigarette and danced in the carpark of the test centre, much to the amusement of the tester. The elation of achieving something that had seemed impossible, and the promise of complete independence with a motor under my control.

And finally, literally a moment, years ago, playing cards in a wooden hut, high up in an obscure corner of the Dolomites, with very close Italian friends. There was a lull in the merriment that always came with playing cards with them. The only sound was tgat of the rain falling. In that still moment, my mind cleared

Mine was in the semi darkness of the maternity ward. I had had a CS. DS and I were alone . After a day or so of shut eyes he opened them for the very first time and we looked at each other . It was such a magical moment. I loved him so much already !

55 years ago, laying on a hospital bed, looking at my new born child (while the doctor stiched me up) and realising I was in love for the very first time.

Thankfully, I'm still in love. And the glory of every d ay, for me, is that they love me back.

Sure, we have our quarrels and disagreements. But the love is always there.

I can’t think of any! I have had happy moments but the last few years have eclipsed happiness with sadness and depression.

I think being in Canada in the Rocky Mountains when I was 19 was probably one of the happiest times in my life as it was one of the most care free.

Getting a pilot's licence.

After years of feeling like a failure, it was the one big achievement that finally made me realise I'm not completely useless after all. I can achieve something amazing.

Hopefully you didn't get back with the cheat?

Seeing Led Zeppelin live at their reunion concert at the O2 2007.

I was ‘too young’ according to my father to see them in 1975, even though I had the opportunity.

So, over thirty years later, I was finally there. I was ecstatic. Didn’t come down to Earth for about a week.

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