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...

[mollymawk]

Interestingly the top Thing That Makes Mumsnetters Cry seems to be - old men. Especially when (a) accompanied by a dog (especially if also old) or (b) buying a small amount of shopping.

(Have also just thought of the end of Where The Wild Things Are when Max comes home and his dinner is waiting - "And it was still hot").

[MilkNoSugarPlease]

Has no one mentioned the end of "My Girl"?

blub

[JesusChristOtterStar]

donotgogently did you have to ??????
just been on itunes



mistake

nativities are the pits i am howling

[hottiebottie]

I was watching an episode of the Carla Lane comedy Butterflies on the G.O.L.D. channel today, and this line by Ria made me well up:

"It's a curious thing being a mother at a time like this - you find yourself spending your own invaluable hours loving someone who is getting ready to leave."

I loved this programme as a teen in the 70s, now I'm the mum with the teenage children! There are quite a few clips on YouTube, a bit dated but hilarious and very moving.

Also - of course - Slipping Through My Fingers by Abba!

[VFemme]

Sydney airport at 6am as all the international flights are landing and everyone is waiting to be reacquainted with loved ones. I'm filling up just now thinking about it!

Th Scientist by Coldplay - esp the video.

[luckyblackcat]

Oh yes, The Mousehole Cat (old man willing to give up his life to feed the young of Mousel).

Old men - since my dad died when I was 23.

Rememberance services.

The news today as 6 herses drove through Wooton Bassett - my DD also was v sad at this.

Up (and at least one of the trailers beforehand)

I was a heartless bitch before DC, am now a blubbering wreck on a very regular basis.

[SolidGoldBangers]

I apologise in advance for this but:

The Night Garden Theme because it has always struck me as being one of those things that would get played at a small child's funeral - 'Take the little sail down, light the little light, this is the way to the garden in the night'.

[Madascheese]

errr this thread...

My Lovely DS saying 'Happy Birthday Mummy' for the very first time (was 18 months ago but still makes me sob)

Can't sing Somwhere over the rainbow to him anymore - used to sing it when he was a teeny tiny before my ex and I split and is too poignant now.

Anything to do with DS, DP, or any of my family....we had some photos done this weekend and the pics of my parents and DS were heartbreakingly lovely

DS asking if the children who dont have a Mummy can come and live with us so they can be happy again

Could go on all day, I've always been a bt soft but waaaaayyyy worse since I had DS

xx

[LibrasBiscuitsOfFortune]

Puff the Magic Dragon.

[TheLadyEvenstar]

Petes Dragon makes me cry since having ds's

[Raychill]

Oh good golly - I listened to Peter Andre's song "Unconditional" on Radio 2 this morning (not a fan of his music at all) and much to my surprise I found myself getting all teary. The lyrics were about meeting this boy, who isn't his child, but having an unconditional love for him & wanting to be part of his life forever etc. It's really OTT sappy number - but SOB! it touched a nerve. Bless!

[Raychill]

Oh & when I was breastfeeding the Pampers immunisation advertisement make me howl every time!

[FlyMeToDunoon]

The end of Braveheart.

[BiscuitFace]

i was howling at the bodies of the soldiers returning to Britain yesterday on the news.

[FaintlyMacabre]

A tin of spray polish from Tesco. It had a picture of an old man lovingly polishing something on the side. The problem was, I didn't like the smell of the polish and didn't use it, but I felt so bad for the man that I had rejected his polish that it actually made me cry.

I was pregnant at the time, honest.

[vezzie]

On the "slipping through my fingers" tip: when dd was 4 weeks old I had spent a lot of time crying about how exhausted I was and how terrible it all was and what the hell had I done. Then, the first time I walked any distance (after SPD) I put my headphones on and listened to "all my little words" and bawled my head off that - get this - one day she would leave home.

"You are a splendid butterfly, it is your wings that make you beautiful. And I could make you fly away, but I could never make you stay... not for all the tea in China, not if I could sing like a bird"

here

[BiscuitFace]

yes, renditions of slipping through my fingers are a howlfest in this house, both dh and myself

[vezzie]

Oh, two more people are Mousehole bawlers! This makes me feel less odd.

[Serennos]

'Little Donkey'

Why did the donkey have to be so little? And why did it have to plod?

She should have gotten off and walked, the selfish woman.

[bronze]

I'm another who cries at anything

[TheLadyEvenstar]

I cried at one of the harry potter books

[Bolshy]

I used to be resolutely unlikely to shed a tear over anything and since having children I have become a pathetic sniffler. And this thread has me weeping just because it's named some of my top sniffle-triggers: old dogs and smartly dressed old men (reminds me of my dad, who whose birthday it would have been last week). Waaaaah!

[fufulina]

Am also another who never used to cry and since DD cries at everything... I feel like I've been flayed and all my nerves are open to the air - to be brushed by anything including (but note this is certainly not an exhaustive list)

The London marathon
The Great Ormond Street Hospital ad earlier this year
Old footage of the Silver Jubilee (all those people waving flags on The Mall!)
And just read a book 'Call the midwife' - about a midwife in 1950s London docklands - cried a lot at that, but one chapter in particular about a woman who had had to go to the workhouse with her 5 kids was truly gutting. Couldn't sleep for hours for crying.
People eating alone - bizarre because I love going out to a cafe on my own!

[lulabellarama]

The Athlete song 'Wires' that is used in the Great Ormond Street advert.
I always go at the lyric
'First night of your life, curled up on your own'

I quite often cry when I am bf DS2 in the evenings and he falls asleep because I know I'll stop soon and might never hold a little sleepy baby again.