to well up at this (plus your own welling up confessions please)

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I'm taking some Brownies to an old people's home to sing some carols and Christmas songs. dds and I have just been practising Winter Wonderland. for those of you not intimately acquainted with Winter Wonderland it's really quite a gorgeous 1930s song, with lovely instrumentals, about a young couple in love, gallivanting (innocently, of course) in the snow and then day dreaming about their future by the fire. and yep, I'm struggling to get through it...just thinking of my lovely dds and the other lovely Brownies singing and the lovely old people reminiscing...

sprocket just bawled my eyes out at your story... our dog is 12 and part GS... his back legs aren't too good and he is DH's baby

Time2hibernate - sporting achievements do it for me too. especially ones by youngsters. a bit of stirring music and a medal ceremony sets me off. even if I know nothing about the event.

This thread is making me cry and pretty much anything in it!

I used to be tough too. Having children has left me a sentimental wreck.

Saw Real Rescues on the telly this morning, filmed in an ambulance control room, and they reported a baby was born whilst they were on air, with the help of the ambulance crew. That set me off. (My defence is that the same happened to me too although 6 yrs ago)!

Watching DS1 having a swimming lesson yesterday.

Going to a fireworks display on Saturday.

Remembrance Day, medal ceremonies, anybody winning anything, Comic Relief (I spend more time crying than laughing) and Children in Need,......... loads of stuff.

When that pampers ad with the babies comes on, the boys all come running to watch mummy inevitably start blubbing at the newborn abbies, its guaranteed every time.

YY to Away In A Manger,alsoMorning Has Broken but for more personal reasons.

I noloner watxch Commic Relief ?CIN as I get too upset, in my defencewehave been CIN need beneficiaries in the past though

And this thrwad did it too- DH willlaugh at me. Again.

I cry at everything - funerals, weddings, births you name it, I will cry at it.

When I was pregnant with DS2 I dropped DS1 off at school, he was in reception, and just the look of him going into school, so little and blonde, being swallowed up into school made me cry, I was bit late and hardly any one else was around, so I just let the tears flow in the playground and a Mum who I hardly knew caught up with me in and just put her arms around me and gave me such a massive, knowing supportive hug and held me while I cried. She said nothing, until we stopped hugging and said 'OK now?' I nodded and off she went.

Argh! I can't read this thread, I'm at work.

DS (2) is learning Christmas songs at nursery for their play. He sang Little Donkey to me in the bath last night. Sob.

I was walking him home from nursery the other day, DP had come home from work early and was just pulling up outside. DS saw him and ran down the road yelling "my daddy! my daddy!".

It did make me wonder if someone has been showing him the Railway Children while I'm not around...

This thread maks me cry.

Toy story, railway children and the last bit in Billy Elliot where his dad is so proud and then Billy leaps onto stage...

Most recently, wind the bobbin up.

When I had ds, dd (just shy of 3) came to hospital to meet him when he was just 3hrs old. She looked at him, lying in the crib with eyes filled with wonder then leaned in, took his tiny hands and sang "Wind the bobbin up," so beautifully that the lady in the next bed cried too. I sobbed silently through the entire visiting time. And now I well up whenever I hear children sing that song.

my dad used to sing to us 'what is a mummy daddy'. the saddest song ever known to man, woman and child.

I actualy cried watching a fireworks display on Saturday evening. ds4 , 3, noticed because I was holding him and asked why crying Mummy?. I just said ' because its so pretty

Anything makes me well up. DD gets horribly embarassed by me and gave me the top tip of open your eyes really wide, the tears can't fall out then!
In common with most people it seems, I seldom cried before she was born and sent a tenner a month to Battersea dogs home. Now, I can't even begin to think about child cruelty, child labour or indeed anything where children are hurt.
One constant since she was born that is guarnteed to have me full of tears and snot is a book called 'HUG' it's by someone called Jez something and has only three words in it.

Everything makes me cry, even before DC and especially afterwards.

Father of the bride speeches, Rememberance day, my dad talking aobut his old dog Cleo, the Secret Millionaire, children singing carols. An article in a magazine about the moment army widows were notified about their husband/partners death. The way they described the knock on the door and the fact they knew what the news was going to be had me in floods.

I used to be the worst at Noel's Christmas presents, don't think it's on anymore but every year I would be be in bits realising how lucky my family and I am.

(crying again now!)

I cry all the time but most recent was last night when DH was telling me how he'd seen a steam train go past whilst waiting for a train and as it went under a bridge the group of teenage girls who had been standing there all screamed and giggled. He happened to catch the eye of an old lady standing near him who said 'Ah just like the good old days'. I cried cos it started a discussion about those lovely moments/ glances you share with strangers where nothing much is said but you're both thinking the same (nice) thing.

EVERYTHING!!

Again I never used to pre-dc but now...

Most of the posts on this thread
Most films
Most TV programmes- especially those afternoon dramas on Fiver
Most things my dc's do
Most songs
Most sporting achievements

And any mention of Madelein McCann

DH thinks I'm a loon! Though we have been together 10 years and I habe never seen him cry, I guess I do more than enough for the both of us.

Was pretty bad before DD was born but am much worse now...
1.The charity advert for the donkeys(when pg cried for almost an hour at that),possibly because I cry at little donkey
2.The Notebook
3.When Max died in hollyoaks
4,When I was 7,was on the bus and a horrid group of boys smacked an apple out of an old mans hand just as he was about to bite into it,was inconsolable for weeks,kept the apple from my packed lunch every day hoping to see old man and give it to him,but never saw him.in fact crying now remembering it

Im in pieces reading this!!

I think my DH realised preganancy had turned me a bit mad when i cried for HOURS when Johnathan Trott got his first test century this summer in the ashes. I hate cricket, but he made me so proud!!

I was in the Anne Frank House last month with dd (9) and dn (9).
I was trying to explain to them why the Nazi's made the Jews wear a yellow star sewn to their clothes when a little old man came up with a small yellow star and showed it to the girls and said "I used to have to wear one of these when I was a little boy", and then he started to cry. Gulp.
I had to really control myself and didn't know what to say. I'm crying now typing this.

Baby Mine from Dumbo

The Persuit of Happyness where Will Smith is homeless and penniless, sat crying on the floor of a station toilet with his young son asleep on his lap, and someone banging on the door.

Wildlife SOS when baby fawns die (sobs and sobs)

Elderley people waiting patiently at bus stops (not robust pensioners but the ancient, bent over sort who look frail and papery like a puff of air would blow them over). Its WRONG that they should be waiting at bus stops, especially in the dark, in the cold, in winter and I generally fight with myself not to stop and offer a lift in case they think I am a mugger.

IrritableGrizzly and Shockers sorry to make you upset with the dog story - we are hoping to move house soon to a bigger place where we can get a dog, but am dreading another trip to the dogs home! , I will want to take them all.

Remembered another one - Kylie and Jason's wedding in Neighbours (circa 1989 I think?), complete with the 'Angry Anderson' song....

Polar Express,at the end, where little by little the children stop believing. Every year we watch it we get closer and closer to that moment. So so sad. Oh and that beautiful book Someday. Except my d.d will no longer let me read it to her because I always cry.

Waaaaaaahhhh. Waaaaaaaahhhh.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQb3B3Yx6vE

I sobbed when Mrs Mangle left Ramsey Street on Neighbours!

I work on a touristy kind of thing for well-off folk, usually acting all snotty and bad-mannered to me, so when a lady called up to book her family in, she was lovely from the off which left me with a warm glow, but what really got me was when she said "I'm so glad you are able to do this for me" (book her the places)..."My mother is 92 now and it's probably the last time we'll ever get to experience this with her. It means such a lot", followed by her crying

Also, this gets me everytime. My old dog has special needs and is disabled and the end is inevivitable. Everytime I look at him, i'm in awe of how very incredibly amazing a four-legged, long-tailed little creature could be and I think of how difficult life would be without him because he's so beautiful. Also, when he sits on my knee, as I stroke his fur, he kisses and kisses a million times on my arm. So much love.

Oh dear...just watched the link from fedup...
can hardly see the screen for big huge tears! I wish I wasn't such a cry baby!