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Tell me about a perfect moment from your life :)

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CheerfulYank · 17/02/2014 09:01

I just had one, all snuggled up in bed with DS (6) and DD (8 months). We're so warm and cuddled up while it's freezing outside. They're both sleeping on their stomachs in their cozy pajamas and I love the sound of their sleepy even breathing. :) DS doesn't have school tomorrow (President's Day) so no morning rush ahead of me. It just struck me as a wonderful moment I should try to remember...DS looking so little while he sleeps, DD's chubby baby hands on my pillow.

It got me remembering a night I spent once when I was 21, lying in a field and drunkenly talking to a boy. It was the most gorgeous summer night, with a breeze and a huge moon and the smell of grass everywhere, and it really seemed like I would be 21 forever.

Just little moments like that, that you keep and remember, times when you wouldn't trade your life for anything. :) What are some of yours?

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WaitingForMe · 17/02/2014 21:08

When I told DSS1 I was pregnant. I was so scared as he's a funny kid with several issues. This slow smile spread across his face as though it was the best thing in the world. I will never forget that smile, it's imprinted deeper than DS's first smile.

JugglingFromHereToThere · 17/02/2014 21:13

"All so fleeting, all so perfect" That's so true Sillylass

Sounds like you all have lots of fun Smile

sassytheFIRST · 17/02/2014 21:13

Watching my kids watching a show at Seaworld. Their faces and bodies told how spellbound they were.

Eating at a tiny Greek taverna, late evening with my husband, then walking barefoot along the sand.

HesterShaw · 17/02/2014 21:17

sassy next time take them to see dolphins and orcas in the wild rather than in a torture chamber.

They, you and the dolphins will have an even better time.

JugglingFromHereToThere · 17/02/2014 21:22

The dolphins off Cromarty Point in Scotland (east coast) are amazing and come in so close to the shore

LePetitPont · 17/02/2014 21:33

Such a gorgeous thread Thanks Definitely something in my eye frm reading through damn those pregnancy hormones

Mine is on our wedding day - walking up the aisle with my mum and dad, seeing all our friends beaming at me, sunshine streaming through the stained glass window.... and seeing my gorgeous husband to be, beaming at each other then clinging on to each other for dear life as he whispered to me: "you look beautiful". Le sigh.

sassytheFIRST · 17/02/2014 21:34

Hester, thanks for that. The show in question was sea lions. And they were most spellbound by the warmup act - a man dancing.
But you just keep on judging...

BotBotticelli · 17/02/2014 21:34

Having the most perfect meal with DP (now DH) outside a small taverna on a back street on a lesser-explored Greek Island. The sun was setting, a large Greek family were sat at the table next to us with kids of all ages playing and dancing between the tables, the food was simple but delicious, my skin smelled of sunscreen and my DP's face was all freckly.

More recently, putting some classical music on our iPod Dock when ds1 was about 4mo...he was such an unsettled unhappy little soul as a newborn, crying all the time, and when he heard Canon in D start up he stopped crying, looked at the iPod in shock and then smiled with this look of absolute wonder on his face and I remember thinking, well, yes, that would be how your face would look the first time you heard beautiful music :)

Weegiemum · 17/02/2014 21:38

I think my perfect moment was the evening we got engaged (21 years ago).

Dh took me to the bench we always sat on, in the park we went to (The Meadows in Edinburgh) and asked me to marry him (and you have to know we're both Christians) "in the presence of God and all the angels around us".

Wedding was beautiful, the days my 3 children were born were unforgettable, but that was my supreme moment.

HesterShaw · 17/02/2014 21:45

Doesn't matter what animals they are. And yes I do judge Seaworld, harshly, like many others in the world do. I'm not going to apologise for speaking out about it.

But I really don't want to derail a lovely thread.

yummytummy · 17/02/2014 21:46

You are all so so lucky. Thankyou for sharing. But I dont think my life has had a perfect moment so far

joanofarchitrave · 17/02/2014 21:54

Thank you everyone for this thread Flowers

I've posted about this before. The week after I left my first husband and went to stay with a relative, I went on my own to a second-hand market in the city. I got up early, had fruit for breakfast, bought a newspaper and read it in silence on the train to the market. I spent the whole morning and a chunk of the afternoon pottering round the market. I bought a couple of tops, a book or two and a set of table mats, all of which I still love 14 years later. I did all this without a moment's stress, without having to plead or bargain for time without an immediate end in view, without having to eat or drink anything I didn't want to, without having to talk about stuff I didn't care about, without arguing or a burning knot in my stomach from not arguing, without anyone resenting me for reading. I cannot describe adequately the sense of holy peace and happiness I felt that day.

BotBotticelli · 17/02/2014 21:54

Oh and I just remembered: singing 'silent night' quietly into ds1's ear as I paced up and down the post natal ward with him at 3am when he was 12 hours old. It was 2 weeks before Xmas and snow was falling outside.

neversleepagain · 17/02/2014 21:59

I have a few but one that I will always remember was the first time I held my twins together. They were born at 34 weeks and were in the NICU for 2 weeks. It was day 5 when I got to hold them together and it was a perfect moment. I remember the way they smelt, how soft the tops of their heads were and how wonderful it felt to hold one in each arm. I put my face between their heads while they slept on my chest and I could feel their tiny faces on each of my cheeks.

One of my favourite things is cuddling them together now.

JumpJockey · 17/02/2014 22:04

Pre-kids, would be when DH and I were performing in a concert with 6 very good friends (several of whom went on to be godparents for the dds) singing one of the loveliest pieces of music I know (alas the only recording on youtube is us [!] so would completely out myself), we did a great performance and all the 8 members of the choir were really well in touch with each other, lots of smiling at each other as we nailed some tricky passages. And just as we finished the final alleluia, a clock in the room chimed the hour telling us we'd timed the performance to perfection. A small thing, but so satisfying!

Post-kids, one evening last summer staying at a friend's house in France, glass of wine in hand, chatting away with very dear friends we only see once a year. Friends who owned the house came out with a hosepipe to do the flowers, and pretended not to realise she was spraying the dds who ran about laughing hysterically. Just one of those lovely summer moments.

LondonInHighHeeledBoots · 17/02/2014 22:13

Sitting round a bonfire in my friend's garden the first night of 2nd year of uni, drinking cheap rum while one of my friends played guitar and sang. We were young and stupid and knew it all, and were all just so free.

When DH and I got together, I was at a party at his house and had popped outside for a smoke, came back and he was waiting for me in the kitchen alone. I gave him a 'friendly' hug, looked up at him and thought 'fuck it' and kissed him. Waking up with him the next morning was wonderful (its not got old 5 years later!)

Walking up the aisle to him was the most surreal experience of my life, and a real 'moment'.

ShabbyChic8 · 17/02/2014 22:19

Loving this thread. I have a few.

I was 21 and on holiday in Greece, we had taken a boat trip to a small island and we dived into the water and swam to shore. I sat in the shallows running my hands through the stones and with every handful I drew up there were these tiny and perfectly formed shells! loads of them! They were so beautiful, I kept a tiny shell in my purse for years after, until the purse got stolen.

Also our last holiday before DC was born, I was lying in a hammock at the top of the communal lodge in the Amazon jungle in Peru. I was sipping a Pepsi Max from a glass bottle (tastes better somehow) and watching a fruit bat fly round and round and up and down the stairwell. It was warm, there was a gentle hubbub from downstairs and I was a million miles from any form of responsibility. It just felt perfect in every way.

redrubyindigo · 17/02/2014 22:24

Ooooh God, yes, yes, yes, yes!!!!

Sorry? What did you ask?

DalmationDots · 17/02/2014 22:25

Lovely thread
For me what sticks out is being aged 18/University age...
meeting my first serious boyfriend aged 18, the innocent kissing to our hearts contents Blush
aged 18 at uni, having broken up with said first boyfriend due to the distance...I then met a wonderful boy who, while it was not meant to be anything more (and we found that out the hard way) we had some wonderful, long and deep conversations late into the night in my university halls room.
Last day of university, aged 21, when we went to the big landmark and watched the view before releasing helium balloons. And just generally university living in some incredible old halls, being in such a beautiful city, walking past amazing architecture everyday and the feeling of the world being at your fingertips (and it wasn't even oxbridge).

Then there are all the children ones but I could go on for days....

Ilikepinkwine · 17/02/2014 22:25

Sat outside a beach cafe on the island of Aitutaki eating breakfast when the owner came out and said he'd had a booking but they had cancelled, did we fancy a free trip around the lagoon on his catamaran? Of course we did, so had the most amazing day exploring the uninhabited islands, eating coconut fresh from the shell and then to top it off I was lying with my hand trailing in the water when this massive turtle swam right under the cat and brushed against my hand. Best day ever.

YoHoHoandabottleofWine · 17/02/2014 22:39

DS2 was born at the end of a month-long dry spell. I was sitting in a hospital bed next to the window with my warm and snuggly baby. It was late afternoon or early evening and raining and all the birds were singing with joy. The air smelt of that smell you get when it rains for the first time in ages.

DS1's birth was long and awful, DS2's was a joy. I was on a high that he had arrived safely, and the birth had been amazing, my family was complete and I never had to do that again!

ChrisMooseAlbanians · 17/02/2014 22:50

The night I first slept with stbDH. It was funny and sweet and gentle and wonderful and I knew he was the one for me even then.

I can't really remember much after DD was born as I was so ill but the night we were all allowed home together was so lovely. My mum had been in and cleaned the entire house and my family had left me a table full of sunflowers and presents and cards. DR sent me to bed to get some sleep not long after we got in but it was so perfect.

LosingItSlowly · 17/02/2014 22:58

Almost dying and seeing God.

I'm actually an agnostic, but hallucination or not, it was one of the most beautiful and profound moments of my life. The feeling of absolute awe is one I'll never forget.

eslteacher · 17/02/2014 22:59

Going backwards in time...

DP asking me to live with him, on my birthday on a v romantic bridge with city lights of Paris all around

Being in the kitchen with my best friend and housemate, singing to Cher while we cooked dinner and drank wine

Eating dinner in Indian restaurant with my parents who I hadn't seen in a few months, getting tipsy and catching up.

Funny that the first one is something special and out of the ordinary and the others are fairly everyday moments that just stick in my head bad being really happy.