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

[hatwoman]

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...

[fedupintheoffice]

and at Christmas we go to the local cancer hospital and they hold a carol service where everyone stands holding a tealight candle in the freezing cold round a Christmas tree. It always gets to me

[fedupintheoffice]

Sorry shellseeker It's a beautiful song with so much meaning.

[fedupintheoffice]

www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrgwxLff4Io

and of course, the legendary Luther Vandross...www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvW6nuQ2B0s

[BratleyBansBaubles]

FedUp, I absolutely love that song, in a sad way... if that makes sense?
Its beautiful. I bought their album because of that song.

[Taramuddle]

Oh sob sob, all these posts!

• when I dance in my kitchen with dp, dd(aged3) & baby boy to 'build me up buttercup'

-at my nephew winning 'man of the match' (hidden so as not to mortify him)
-thinking about my old black labrador roll on the grass in the sun a week before the end
-at 'the choir' on telly
-at the lullaby that is sung so beautifully at the end of dd's music/singing class.
-at my dp posting on my facebook wall that he loved me & was proud of me after giving birth to ds (never having uttered these words aloud)

Incidentally dp is equally blubby since having dc, caught him crying at britains got talent!

[Mermaidspam]

Oh lord, having read the first half of this thread, I'm providing things which make me cry in a happy way

Children singing "we wish you a merry Christmas" at the end of the nativity.

The end of Love Actually

Any birth story on TV

The Coca cola Christmas adverts

[Ponders]

jooseyfruit -

"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."

This has left me sitting here with a lump in my throat the size of an orange

There are no words, are there?

[Boobz]

Oh FFS! Am crying now and I have so much work to do this morning.

The little baby whale trying to latch on to boats.... waaaaahhhhh!

[Bambinoloveseggbirds]

I cried a bit last night when DS (10 months)handed me something for the first time. Was only his little bath toy sharky. I put my hand out and he placed it in my hand. Sob.

Thinking about when I will read the Owl and the Pussycat to DS brings a tear to my eye - also wonder how the hell I will get to the end. Not a sad poem I know, but my favourite as a child.

Knowing I go back to work in 2 weeks - even though I want to - makes me cry.

The West Wing. Used to sob like a pussy at that - even the happy bits made me cry.

Bibo no aozora by Ryuichi Sakamoto makes me cry.

[Tigerlily1]

thanks everyone, i'm now a blubbering wreck!! meant to be having a lie in while my son is at nursery as am about to have 2nd baby but now i just want to go and pick him up and cuddle him!

[Bambinoloveseggbirds]

Ozziegirly, just read your SATC post - "go get our girl". So true. I cried at most of the last series of SATC.

[CornishKK]

I've just woken up my 14 week old PFB from his morning nap by blowing my nose too loudly.

I used to be hard as nails, what happened to me?

I foolishly made up a lullaby playlist om my iPod for PFB, can't get through Liverpool Lullaby without breaking down. Have to turn off the baby monitor so DH can't hear me sniffing.

[Bambinoloveseggbirds]

Another song that makes me cry is Wichita Lineman by Glenn Campbell. WTF!

Sat here sniffling to myself now whilst DS naps. Very constructive use of nap time.

[gagamama]

I had a little weep in M&S last night when walking past the rack of old-lady slippers. This will be the first Christmas I won't be buying any for my lovely Grandma.

[jumpjockey]

Goodbye Mog made me so sad that for a good few years all DH had to say was "Mog" and I'd be in floods. He threatened to say it to me just before our wedding vows

That advert for social work that used to be up on the walls in tube stations about the old man going up to the great pavilion in the sky, he didn't have any family but the social worker helped him be happy on his own [bawl]

dd looking at the shadow of her cot mobile on the wall and smiling when she was about 3 months old.

[HerbWoman]

Loads of things since having children (wasn't completely tough before that, but far better than now). OK.
End of Blackadder goes forth.
The bit in City of Angels where Nicholas Cage watches a mum panicking over her child with fever (cos you just know she's gonna die - tried to watch it when I was ironing once. Didn't get very far.)
At the beginning of Narnia - Lion, Witch and Wardrobe - when the mum says goodbye at the station as the children are evacuated.
End of series 4 of Dr Who - Donna was so fab.
The Little Matchgirl from my 1972 book of fairy tales - at one point DD kept wanting me to read it to her because she wanted to see my cry (how mean is that?)
And whenever the kids do something special.
Too many things, but I can't help it.

[bunjies]

OK I've only read half of this thread and I have to keep taking deep breaths to stop myself from bawling. Not good when you're in an office.

The last time I had a weep was when dh and dcs went back to France without me a couple of weeks ago. I'm currently working in London (only 2 weeks to go yay!) and staying with my parents. They came over for half term and when they left I managed to keep it together being all bright and cheery and talking about how I would be home soon. Anyway, got through the day but when I got back from work the house was so empty and quiet that I just say on my bed and sobbed quietly to myself so my parents wouldn't hear.

I'm going to start again now

[hatwoman]

2 more - only minor welling but still confirmation that I am completely pathetic: articles in the newspaper this morning on the first female Red Arrow and the army sniffer dog who was lost in Afghanistan for a year and then found.

[jeee]

Read "The Silver Sword" to the children, and choked down the tears all through the last three chapters. And "Daddy, it's my daddy", but then everyone cries over that don't they?

[pamelat]

My first Christmas without my grandma too and basically if I think of her at all, or if I see anyone elderly, I cry.

I showed DD a picture of her this morning. Grandma died when DD 18 months so unlikely to remember her? DD said "grandma" and I said "Mummy misses grandma", just about holding it together and she said "Grandma ok mummy" and I burst in to tears.

Bless her.

[pamelat]

read some of these posts and am now sobbing. Meant to be cleaning during DD's nap.

I also cried during the 2 minute rememberance silence and had to leave the office immediately at the end so no one would notice.

[hoppybird]

The Happy Prince, however many times I've read it. Can usually manage ok until this line:

"At that moment a curious crack sounded inside the statue, as if something had broken. The fact is that the leaden heart had snapped right in two. It certainly was a dreadfully hard frost."

Books about spiders dying (Sophie's Masterpiece and Charlotte's Web).

'Away in Manger' sung a little out of tune and nativity plays in general.

Loads of films (Shadowlands, Green Mile, Dumbo, Up etc).

My dc's when they have the quivery-lipped sad face.

[hoppybird]

(and OP, YANBU for feeling emotional thinking of children sing Christmas songs to old people).

[hoppybird]

singing, even.

[morningpaper]

My DD is learning Stille Nacht at school for christmas

She goes around singing it all day

I well up every time she starts warbling it

I am going to be a MESS during the ACTUAL CONCERT, I will have to take a valium beforehand