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

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hatwoman · 10/11/2009 20:18

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...

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redsofas · 10/11/2009 23:05

show of hands you just made me cry anything very happy makes me cry too!!! has anyone ever seen the documentary about old people 'eating or heating' that made me cry, the little old lady who couldnt even make a cup of tea because of the shakes and only had a cooked meal twice a week when her support worker visited her and her only company was the television as she had no family or friends left

Poledra · 10/11/2009 23:06

The bit in Love Actually where Emma Thompson is weeping in the bedroom with Jodie Mitchell playing.

When DDs 1 and 2 tell me they love me and that I'm the best mummy ever.

When I remember when DH's beloved grandma died - it was before we lived together and we were going to a ball that evening. He didn't tell me until after the ball when we were back at my flat as he didn't want to spoil my night. Then he buried his head in my waist and wept the most gut-wrenching sobs I have ever heard. I do not know how he had the strength to get through the night with every appearance of enjoyment when he felt as he did.

Whenever I think about the births of ym 3 DDs.

I was sooooo hard before I had children

nappyzonecantrunfortoffee · 10/11/2009 23:07

i always cry at two little boys song too and get really tearey at 2 mins silence for remeberance or any other two mins silence. For this reason i always go to the loo at these times if at work and sit perched onthe lavvy remembering with my tears freely flowing. I also cry at iggle piggle in his boat - i worry its to dangerous for him out to see alone on a dark night!
Mumsnet birth stories also.

redsofas · 10/11/2009 23:09

shabba thats lovely i hope ds' both remember the songs i sing to them

ConnieComplaint · 10/11/2009 23:11

DNGG - I don't have a teenager & it makes me sob!

As did 'UP'. If my sisters' want to make me cringe they just say "Lassie" - apparently I used to howl at it every time we watched it!! (yet I don't remember it).

I read the obituaries every day from the Irish News..... some really sad ones & then I sniff loudly & get on with my day...

My neighbour telling me her parents split just before C'mas & her dad had beans & bread for his C'mas day dinner......

Erm.... Vezzies post...

The thought that my mam had 8 of us, in a small noisy home... then one by one we got married & flew the nest, and now she lives in a silent house just waiting for visitors... (am bawling my eyes out now!) Bloody hell!!

PoppyIsApain · 10/11/2009 23:12

oh and beaches

nappyzonecantrunfortoffee · 10/11/2009 23:13

any song that could be suitable for a funeral.

shockers · 10/11/2009 23:15

poledra You have made me cry. I miss my Grandma every day.

RockinSockBunnies · 10/11/2009 23:19

I always cry at the end of Ghost. So does DD. We sit there weeping. I swear the person that made the music to the film sat there finding the saddest combination of notes to bring about tears.

I also cry (well, feel choked emotionally anyway) in My Own Private Idaho.

Musically, the song my father used to sing sometimes makes me cry - A Mother's Lament -

A mother was washing her baby one night;
The youngest of ten and a delicate mite.
The mother was poor and the baby was thin;
'Twas naught but a skeleton covered with skin.

The mother turned 'round for a soap off the rack.
She was only a moment but when she turned back
Her baby had gone, and in anguish she cried,
"Oh, where has my baby gone?" The angels replied:

Oh, your baby has gone down the plug hole.
Oh, your baby has gone down the plug.
The poor little thing was so skinny and thin,
He should have been washed in a jug, in a jug.

Your baby is perfectly happy;
He won't need a bath anymore.
He's a-muckin' about with the angels above,
Not lost but gone before.

I remember my father singing that when I was little - he died when I was a teenager and it's a memory that makes me cry.

MilkNoSugarPlease · 10/11/2009 23:20

The end bit of Little Women

Goodnight mister tom- when he calls him dad (!)

99% of all extreme makeovers: home edition

Old Ladies/gentlemen who look so frail and lonely

Kids complete innocence...so makes me wish i could relive my childhood

MilkNoSugarPlease · 10/11/2009 23:24

And anything, anything at all remotely relating to a thought of my nan...someone walked past me in the high street wearing the perfume she wore and i sobbed in the road...but even down to someone buyiong the same fags she smoked has me going

BelfastBloke · 10/11/2009 23:25

RockinSockBunnies,

I sing that Cream song to my DD in the bath all the time, and now she's singing along with it too. Big smile on her face.

In fact she's crying in bed right now so I'm off to sing a lullaby to her.

PeedOffWithNits · 10/11/2009 23:26

connie - i have a reputation for crying at lassie too. What was that michael landon thing whre he was an angel - highway to heaven or summat - always weeptatsic stories on there!

Daddy my daddy and this

PeedOffWithNits · 10/11/2009 23:28

I could only watch about 4 seconds of that video, I feel like I have a rock in my throat now. why do i come on these weepy threads!!! LOL

mollymawk · 10/11/2009 23:32

DoNotGoGently - your name is making me tearful now

redsofas · 10/11/2009 23:36

gosh i never expected to cry at dumbo!!!! thanks for that! lol

DontHauntMeBaby · 10/11/2009 23:42

Oh heavens, yes, DoNotGoGently's name ... Rage, rage, against the dying of the light.

My hairdresser made me tell her why Up made me cry. She was washing my hair at the time and I cried into my ears whilst teling her.

Telling DD about the death of Capt Scott and companions (I did tell it VERY well, very stirring). I actually can't explain Remembrance Day to her, can't even start.

Slipping Through My Fingers in the film of Mamma Mia seems a bit trite and obvious, but in my defence I saw it shortly before DD started school AND I was sitting between two friends who have daughters the same age, both called Sophie.

The slightly odd one is that I CANNOT get through the end of The Mousehole Cat without crying.

I'm getting far worse with age, I only hope that I've come out the other side by the time I'm and old lady with an old dog making the young'uns well up.

DoNotGoGently · 10/11/2009 23:42

Sorry MM didn't mean to do that but I am a Dylan Thomas nut!!

TheLadyEvenstar · 10/11/2009 23:45

2 words...

The Champ

when he dies....

and also the song my dad used to sing to me to get me to sleep

You are my sunshine.

DS1 when he performs with the choir as he has a lovely voice.
DS2 now he has learnt to say "Love you mama"

VengefulSinner · 10/11/2009 23:45

My first thought was Goodnight Mr Tom when Willy rides the bike. That made me think of John Thaw and thinking of him makes me bawl everytime. I adored that man!

Then I just realised that everything can make me teary or get a lump in throat since having DS 5yrs ago. Before that I was a 'hardnut'

VengefulSinner · 10/11/2009 23:46

Oh and I will also go and look at DS sleeping and randomly burst into tears over how much I love him.

Which I never admitted to anyone as it is slushy!

TheLadyEvenstar · 10/11/2009 23:48

Vengeful....so glad its not only me that peeks at ds's when they are asleep and end up bawling lol.

dittany · 10/11/2009 23:50

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VengefulSinner · 10/11/2009 23:51
Grin
MilkNoSugarPlease · 10/11/2009 23:59

Have just "youtubed" railway children endoing sob!!

have to dig it out the dvd collection now!!

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