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...

Do you remember that baby whale that was lost and ended up in a harbour in Australia, starving and trying to latch on to boats to feed. I was bfing newborn DD when I saw it on the news and it was so sad to think of the poor thing without it's mum.

Singing along with Rolf Harris singing 'Two Little Boys'. My excuse is that it is on a cd of classic children's songs, like The Laughing Policeman. However this is no excuse for not skipping that track.

I make people cry. I dont mean to. I have done it several times on MN in the last few weeks.

Sorry.

Oh talking of Daddy! Daddy! ALWAYS cry when I see that scene in the original Railway Children 'Daddy, My Daddy' wahhhhh. I even cry in anticipation of it [soft twit emoticon]

Two Little Boys has made me cry since I was a little girl. It's sooo sad! And when it was re-released last year and was on the radio all the time I thought I might become immune but no, tears every single time!

The end of the Railway Children when Bobbi runs down the platform shouting "daddy, it's my daddy."

Since having DD just over two years ago, everything makes me cry - happy or sad. Pampers ad has just been on ITV so sniffling away now!

the end of In The Night Garden when one of the little creatures is sailing away in a boat

and Two Little Boys here as well

I must spend half my life in tears

[and people being sad at other people chuckling at their sad confessions... ]

Just been to see "Up!" with DSs last weekend - and I was sobbingg! Nobody had warned me.
How can you be made to care so much for some drawn cartoon characters .

Then I again, I too, cry at everything AND am pregnant...

I well up at anything, my tutor group find this endlessly amusing.

ooh, up is soo sad. i felt really traumatised after, that poor old man and his wife. Trying not to well up thinking about it now.

The Streets of London song

Can't read "The Velveteen Rabbit" or get past the first page of "Goodbye Mog" without bawling... My kids think I'm mental

DDs version of Away in A Manger, starring the "Little Ol' Jesus, asleep in the hay"...

I'm going to my 3yo DTs first nativity in December. Looking forward to making a total sniffling nob of myself...

Ohh Goodbye Mog has me in tears too. The sad start to Up totally took me by surprise - I was with an adult friend (none of the children would come with us, so we went alone) but I was worrying about all the other children in the cinema.

Anything mawkish on the TV.

The results of any reality show (actually I don't watch tv but if it happens to be on).

Can't read things in the paper about children being hurt, dying, even slightly upset.

Everything to do with Rememberance Day.

Going to a big firework party last week with DS, first time since his grandad died and DS saying that grandad would have loved watching it from heaven. Made me well up now thinking about it.

Going back to the dog with old people... a friend of ours was a macmillan nurse, and she wanted to find a home for her terminally ill patient's dog. So we were that family. Lovely border collie cross. About a week after he came to stay with us, he ran off. Dad went looking for him in the car... and found him on his owner's doorstep, about a mile away!!
Still makes me cry now.
Dog stayed with us for years though and came to love us just as much.

I well up/cry at anything vaguely sad, it's mortifying and I wish I didn't. The other day I was having lunch with a friend and we were talking about our kids swimming at school when she mentioned the child who drowned during a school swimming carnival - I sobbed into my pasta!

this whole thread has made me cry

Anne of Green Gables - when matthew says 'It wasn't a boy that won the Avery was it? It was a girl, my girl. My girl that I'm proud of' And the next day he Diiiiiiessss

My little boys singing - dreading "Christmas Cafe" at their school soon.

When Charlotte dies in the book of Charlotte's Web- all alone at the fair as it is dismantled.
When Laura's dog dies in the book Little House on the Prairie, all curled up and stiff in the morning and they bury him on the grassy hillside. Laura hopes he is chasing jackrabbits in the Happy Hunting Grounds.
I read both of these to children and was sobbing while they gazed curiously at me and then got impatient for the next chapter.

radio 2 - terry wogans breakfast show - the religious bit the other day....dont ask me why im not in the least bit religious and im not preggars either! but it was on about jesus on the cross, and the criminal being crucified next to him said something about wanting to be forgiven and he said "truly i say to you, today you will be with me in paradise" and it made me cry!!!!

god whats wrong with me these days....

oh and i cant get through the velveteen rabbit either....never have managed it once without crying.

Were you like this - all of you - before you had DC/were pg. I was totally not - like a stone and proud of it. Now the blardy Xfactor has me blubbing as well as the other stuff.

"Guess how much I love you" - I am utterly unable to read to DSs without welling up.

Yes, I have always been a sop, but having had children and being pregnant makes it a lot worse.

I used to cry at the very old BT advert about young woman in New York phoning her old dad in Blighty, FFS!

I can't talk about the film The Notebook. I get as far as 'well there's a man reading to a woman in a nursing home' and I have Go Into The Kitchen. If I watch it, I have to take half a day to grieve. Ditto Brokeback Mountain.