To ask what the best thing is that's happened to you this year

[PennyPearl]

I can't sleep and thought we'd get some cheer from this thread as it's been an absolutely horrendous year for many so wanted to know the good things that's happened to you this year, it can be more than one:-

After a difficult unstable pregnancy, my beautiful daughter was born at 36+4 days and was absolutely healthy with nothing wrong with her and we got to leave the next day.

I reconnected with an old friend in January after a minor fall out and we've actually become best of friends.

My mum has been diagnosed with autism which doesn't sound good but actually it makes so much more sense now and she has access to the support she needs.

My DH has been accepted onto a university course he's been wanting to do to kick start a new career.

So please feel free to share yours, feel like we could do with a positive uplifting thread

My eldest seems to have made a sudden and complete recovery from the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome which dominated their life since the age of 15. They've were at uni part-time, really struggling to do the basics of living and couldn't socialise much at all.

I nearly cried with joy last Saturday afternoon when I rang up and they said, "Yeah, I'm managing to finish up my essay. Bit of a struggle to concentrate just at the minute. I went out with my friend for a "quick drink" last night, but we ended up staying out way too late and I'm still hung over." Such a normal thing for a 20-something student to do, but a year ago it would have been unthinkable. This is maybe about the third time in their life they have ever got drunk, because it used to take so much out of them that it just wasn't worth the price.

So happy for them!

My beautiful miracle baby

Born early Jan

Horrendous year otherwise but she is a total angel xxxx

I got married for the 2nd time aged 58

I went back to work after a sabbatical, has been fabulous

Dh had a life changing bonus at work that has made our future secure.
Dd passed her GCSE's amazingly after a terrible struggle with anxiety and is loving sixth form and has grown in confidence so much it makes me well up .
We are so desperately proud of her 🥰

DH got a transplant. Been many years waiting, health was very poor. Complete success - health recovering.

Lost a job, got redundancy, then got an even better job that I adore. So it could have been awful but it wasn't!

This is such a lovely thread
Would love to read more lovely stories .

I'm glad I started this thread, I've loved reading them all.

Please feel free for anyone else to share stories or even little wins

My little win is I'm currently at uni studying psychology and I had my beautiful DD in October so haven't been to face to face lessons but I'm one assignment off finishing the semester at the same time as everyone else and I've been getting 1st/2nds on my work 😊

A company I had sent my CV to three years previously asked me to do some interesting, straightforward and well paid freelance work.
This has helped 'rehabilitate' me after a work-related breakdown caused by lockdown and poor jobfit in 2021.

I got a promotion at work - finally! Hard work though.

I travelled abroad for the first time since pre pandemic - and visited a country I hadn’t been to before for the first time since 2010.

I also started learning a new language (nothing to do with above country) which has been eye opening and something I never thought I’d learn.