For fun - what silly thing are you proud of?

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My husband and son pointed out that it is highly silly from me to be overly proud of having 39kg of Legos (and, yes, I build stuff regularly), and having 57 boardgames. At almost 45 I should have grown up already.

Less silly maybe my yarns from wherever I traveled in the past 5 years collection and the garments made from them :)

My 11yo son breached his bedtime last night to stay up building a 3D puzzle of the Eiffel Tower. I pretended to be cross but secretly I was so happy. He’s had a really shitty start to life which sent him on a path I was certain I could never bring him back from and a couple of years back if you’d asked me where he would be on Friday night after bedtime I most definitely wouldn’t have said building a 3D puzzle of the Eiffel Tower. I’m not religious but last night, I went to bed and thanked whatever higher power it was that allowed this to happen.

And I was very proud of that little Eiffel Tower

That’s lovely Smallsteps88 that your ads feels happier 💕 , maybe start Friday and Saturday night games nights and enjoy being up with a late Fri and Sat night supper

*DS

@midsummabreak

That’s lovely Smallsteps88 that your ads feels happier 💕 , maybe start Friday and Saturday night games nights and enjoy being up with a late Fri and Sat night supper

That’s a great idea! Thank you @midsummabreak

Not sure this counts but to the world I look like a normal boring average person and my house reflects this ... except for the box room which is floor to ceiling toys, comic/film/music merch, posters, books and my beloved furbies 🙈

@Smallsteps88 That’s really wonderful. I felt a little tearful reading it - in a good way!

My silly thing I’m proud of is that my DC speak a language that I invented whilst I was a student 😂 It’s a total nonsense language that even my linguistically talented DH can’t understand or get to grips with. In the whole world, there is only myself, DC & best friend from uni who can speak it 😉

My 11yo son breached his bedtime last night to stay up building a 3D puzzle of the Eiffel Tower. I pretended to be cross but secretly I was so happy. He’s had a really shitty start to life which sent him on a path I was certain I could never bring him back from and a couple of years back if you’d asked me where he would be on Friday night after bedtime I most definitely wouldn’t have said building a 3D puzzle of the Eiffel Tower. I’m not religious but last night, I went to bed and thanked whatever higher power it was that allowed this to happen.

That’s makes me unreasonably happy, @Smallsteps88 🙂

I don’t have anything to add to this thread but just wanted to say how lovely these posts are.

I can touch my nose with my tongue .

I don't turn duvet covers inside out to put them on and have no special method, but I am very fast and I never get muddled putting them on. I just kind of stick the corners in.

I used to think DH was particularly incompetent because he struggles with it, but since reading Mumsnet I have realised that I am in the minority and must be unusually talented Housework is not my strong point in general!!

One of the pumpkins I grew from seed during lockdown is getting quite big. I sit next to it whenever I have a few spare minutes and just look at it. Ridiculously proud, haha!

At almost 45 I should have grown up already

Your husband said this? Who does he think made him the boss? Plus it's nothing to do with being ”grown up” it's enjoying games. I have a big collection of children's books - Chalet School, Jennings, Swallows and Amazons series, which I regularly reread, doesn't make me any less ”grown up”!

The 11yo completing the Eiffel Tower is also a lovely thing.