...to start a boasting thread?

[BadgerBadgerBadgerMushroom]

Just a thread for anyone to boast or brag, because if we did it in real life it would be rude and uncouth!

This is mine... I got an overall 91% and 93% on my first semester modules in a uni course - haven;t done a proper exam for around 15 years! :D

what's your boast?

After a major health scare ( cardiac) I started to try to improve my general health and have slowly lost over 2 stone and now walk 5 miles + per day. I'm most proud of not going mad at Christmas with my food intake and keeping to my activity goals. Im even starting to do yoga again, 6 years after I stopped due to lack of motivation.
Love the positivity on this thread, thanks for starting it op

I took 33,125 steps yesterday 👣

I can't tell any of my Mum friends this IRL because they all have terrible sleepers that are mostly grumpy when awake, which unfortunately is a lot of the time.

I've never gotten more sleep in my whole life consistently then I have while on maternity leave! 🤩 I absolutely love being a Mum too.

Our 8 month old baby sleeps from 9 or 10 pm, til almost 11 am, it was 8 pm to 8:45 am no night feedings since she was 4.5 months. I dreamfeed her now when my husband leaves for work then I go back to bed til 11.

She doesn't require settling, we just put her down in her bed and she goes to sleep.

During the day she takes 2 naps, one 3 hour, and one 2 hour nap.

If she has a cold or any type of illness she just wants nurofen and lots of sleep.

She's also not a whingy baby, will eat Anything I offer her the first time, and is hitting all her milestones a bit early. I'm abnormally proud of her very normal looking head since birth and full head of hair, I think it makes her look cuter than most babies. 🙈

I have bipolar disorder so all the sleep helped me recover from initial problems triggered by birth with it as well as recovering from my PND.

It feels so good to get that all out.

I'm going back to sleep now. 🙋‍♀️

My DD is fluent bi-lingual and wants to be a doctor. she has a huge interest in anatomy and anything medical. She and I have a definite telepathic link as she says what I have thought 30 seconds earlier. She is the best. And I make a wicked Mary Berry Victoria Sponge cake.

Came home yesterday from uni - and found this note on desk from 19 year old son .

Ok, I'm back

I fluently speak 4 languages (including my mother tongue, so 3 extra)
I am the most organised person I've ever met
I am REALLY good at cleaning and decluttering (my house is ALMOST clutter free)
I graduated with a first class degree in Scotland then went for a second uni degree back in my home country- first again
I trained my cat (sorry, couldn't help it) and she knows to do a lot of stuff that normally dogs do.

Jesus, that felt good.

Ohohohohoho and I have another one: I NEVER failed an exam in my whole life. Not in uni, not anywhere. And whenever I got an interview I got the job too

I have 4 children 19, 17, 16 and 5 - who are absolutely brilliant, never any school, college or any other complaint. They're just great kids.

I started my ideal job yesterday it's not important or good pay but it's absolutely easy and ideal to work around ds.The last job I had was perfect for me before ds.I think I've got a knack for being employable!

DD2 recently revealed that she and her DP want to move to the town where I live, so I have obviously done something right with her! She also just graduated with a Master's degree with merit and got a distinction for her dissertation. She is very dyslexic and struggles with her mental health, so this was an extraordinary achievement and I am so proud of her.

DD1 is doing an OU course to get a degree while working part time and being a single parent.

I started a new job just over a year ago and received a bigger than expected pay rise a few months in because I was doing such a good job. And my store got a shout-out at Christmas, too!

And another one 🙄 (sorry, I never boast in RL). My visual memory is SCARY. Think Mike
Ross from Suits, except the bastard is exaggerating a bit (it's a tv show after all)

Aged 11 my daughter had her poetry published in a book.

That I've lost 3 stone.

That I had a shit 2018 and totals turned my life around and have a cracking new job.

Ooh, can I?
I’ve managed to completely turn my life around. No one around me really knows details of who I was when I was growing up, or who my family are, or how hard it would have been for me to be a completely different person to what my childhood would have dictated I became as an adult.

People seem to just take it at face value I don’t speak about having any family members past my daughter and my husband, they don’t realise the strength that it’s taken to not have anyone, I’ve been alone completely since I was 17 years old. I’m proud that I made my life better, especially when it was so hard.

What a lovely thread 🙂
The other day I overheard my 2 youngest talking and they were discussing the fact they think I'm really a superhero....maybe super girl because I can do anything. It was so sweet and so serious made me smile all day.

My daughter is doing brilliantly at A level despite finding primary school difficult

My husband is great ( touch wood)

I have lovely dcs

I speak three languages fluently. One of them was self taught

I have two Masters degrees

This might seem like a silly one. But... I recently organised my entire elopement wedding in a matter of months, without ever seeing the venue, on a strict budget and pulled off every detail better than I could have ever hoped! My dress fit me like a glove and I am convinced was practically made for me (although it wasn’t as it was vintage and a fantastic bargain on Etsy) and the pictures are amazing and I am so proud. I didn’t tell anyone, kept the whole thing a secret and it was the best day of my life. I have loved reading everyone else’s. You are all FAB!!

I posted in the relationship thread the other day about an insecurity I have with a girl I met through my partner. One of the issues was that she seemed to be excelling at a sport we are both interested in (horse riding) while I felt due to time, having to work etc etc I wasn't getting much chance and I think I was resenting it a bit.

So I have booked in two training sessions for this month and have been exercising a friends horse this week which I can take on for a month while she goes on holiday. Just a little thing but I already feel a lot more positive!

I had my third DD on Saturday. This morning all three were up, dressed, fed and out the door for the school run at 8:30! I was so proud of myself! Dd1 and dd2 (4 and 2) did not quite understand my mummy was so pleased with herself lol

This is so lovely! Well done OP and everyone else!

My 4 year old makes me proud whenever I see her swim. She is a great swimmer (easily does 50m on her front and back) and she's the youngest by years in her lessons. I taught her myself until recently.

Despite the fact my son wakes 3 or 4 times in the night currently (I could actually weep reading about babies who sleep through - I was briefly smug about that and then it all went to shit) and I am terrible at sleep deprivation, I am managing to run sub-26 minute 5kms 4 months after a caesarean. And despite the lack of sleep and new parenting responsibilities, I am still running, swimming, cycling and training in the gym. My husband is amazingly supportive, does loads with the baby and still puts in about 20 hours of training per week.

Oh, so my friends and family know... but I can't keep on bleating about it, can I? So Mumsnet to the rescue! :D

What a lovely thread.

Mine is I've lost nearly three stones and I've kept it off for over two years and I took up running five years ago at the age of 41 and I still run regularly now.

I got the best Eng Lit results in the country in my A Levels. 100% in every exam and piece of coursework.

Husband doesn't like me mentioning it

Bit materialistic but we are now mortgage free. Happy sigh.

I suffered a serious assault 3 years ago and developed PTSD as a result. Was really ill.for most of the last 3 years and I struggle every single day with my mental health as a result BUT I managed to get back to work in a very challenging career, get a new job a year later and am hanging in there. Every day things get a little better and I'm looking forward in July to leaving my current career and start a new one. I'm very proud of myself for hanging in there and believing every day will be better. It's been a struggle as it's been 3 and a half years now and I'm getting through it a bit at a time. Without doubt the hardest thing I have ever done