AIBU to ask what is the thing you've done in 2016 that's made you proudest?

[Saggingninja]

For me - despite being diagnosed with Cronh's disease, I carried on doing yoga classes all year. Now I'm looser, more relaxed, and a nagging shoulder pain from a 20 year car accident has gone.

What are you proudest of? It can be big, small or miniscule.

Just googled

how much does a sheep cost

and bloody hell - for £1400, does it talk or something?

£7000?

Wut?

That'd better be a really excellent sheep.

Become a much better, closer and stronger team with DH since DD was born.

Lived. I don't mean to sound flippant but due to circumstances and their effect on my mental health, well tbh, it was touch and go for a bit
But thanks to my beautiful DSs giving me a reason to keep getting up in the morning and carrying on, I'm still here and actually, I'm doing ok
Have to say too, in no small part, mn helped massively too so a thanks to everyone who read any of my many whinging threads

Learned the value of a cup of tea with extra sugar and full fat milk. If you do it right, it's like caramel!

(I lead a very meaningful life)

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2731712/Woollen-believe-Lamb-sells-152-000-auction-second-expensive-sheep-sold-double-price-Porsche.html
Ours aren't Texels which get much higher prices. I know Jimmy Douglas who bought the highest priced one. He's an old friend of my late father. It's a very rarefied market

Changed my life after a massive MH breakdown. Asked for medical help, spent 6 months in psychotherapy and CBT, became more mindful in how I live. Left a controlling relationship and a job, in both of which I was never good enough. Wasn't too proud to lodge back with parents while working part time. Shoved my sorry arse out to interviews and got a brilliant new job starting in 2017.

More importantly - I learnt to enjoy compliments.

Rorycrankle let's just hope you're feeling proud of that in the years to come, I think you will not be unfortunately. I think 2016 is one of the saddest and damaging years that I have witnessed in my adult life with Brexit being a focal point. So good idea for a positive thread OP.

I am proud of not losing my mind through sleep deprivation and keeping my son alive to his first birthday. I am seriously in awe of parents of twins and more than one, I'm not sure I can do this all again. So well done mothers.
And getting back to work and graduating from my MSc.

Finally started learning to drive. Fear put me off for years but I did it and my instructor thinks I'm nearly ready for my test

Gosh derxa.

1. Bought a flat, 2. Smashed it professionally (i.e. got my career finally started in my late 20s) and 3. said yes to a man who wanted to marry me (actually, fuck it, the fact that he wanted to marry me was my proudest achievement of the last four years, I've obviously somehow become someone loveable!)

2016 (for me) has been an utter shit storm in terms of the outside world this year, but the other side of the coin is that it became the year I made a home and tentatively started to build my own family.

Not killed anyone... yet.

Did a headstand.

First one ever. I'm not young 😀

(I took up yoga too, op)

Not 'proud' as such but I married the love of my life and our baby was due two days ago (not here just yet) so it's been a wonderful year for us and we both feel very lucky.

Wow MissWilla - a headstand?! I tried to do a roly poly a while ago and bottled it because I was scared of hurting myself!

Stated a business from scratch, no experience, no contacts, no idea!

It is doing quite well and I love it

Quit my job and moved to another country. Proud that I had the guts to go through with it and change my life. I'm not sure I'm making a huge success of it yet, but sometimes you have to take risks!

2016 has been a shit year for a lot of people I know as well as the wider world. Roll on 2017.

I supported my wonderful husband through a terrifying cancer ordeal including a big operation- and dumped a close friend who turned out to be very unsupportive despite me nursing her through her marriage break up .. I feel quite smug! And my husband has made a full recovery.

Going into hospital for a week despite being terrified to sort out my arthritis which resulted in being fast tracked for new drugs and now feel essentially 'cured' . A bit of a pathetic thing to be proud of as it was for my own good but still .

I wanted to lose 5 stone, start exercising again and eat a lot more veg. I have achieved absolutely nothing :(

Well done to the rest of you who have done so well. I need to get my act together like you!

Coped with dd2 when she was self harming and writing suicidal messages. Got her the help she needed, and dealt with school.
And have not got upset in front of her when she was asking about something they had obviously discussed in counselling sessions which I hadn't realised how much I'd hidden the feelings.

Encouraged a friend to go for something I thought she'd be good at (and she is).

Lost 2.5 stone.

Started new job where I've moved our server from a backend as a service onto our own machines running on Heroku. This was causing me much anxiety as the backend thing closes down for good in Jan 17, so the business would have been up shit creek if I'd failed.

Also took on a rescue dog, a lovely, affectionate animal and took him through two training courses and helped him over his separation anxiety.

Looked after my father when he broke his hip - he came to live with us and we quickly fitted out a bedroom for him & made the bathroom dad-safe.

I was there for my father's 83rd birthday on 17 January and there when he died on 22 February. I was there for my aunt who was hospitalized and at death's door when her DC couldn't be there. I have taken on full responsibility for winding up my parents' estate when my sister couldn't do anything because her own husband died 5 weeks after our father. I have moved house, twice, and taken on all the organisation of that, and have continued to support the DC, two of whom have moved on this year. And I have continued to grow my business in all that.

Me and DP got through the year and have a positive outlook for next year.

Wow some amazing things on here, will done everyone!!

I'm really proud that I continued running all through my pregnancy, including running a half marathon and running 5k the day before giving birth. I ran over 600 miles through the pregancy in total.

Got back out running three weeks after giving birth too, despite it being really hard!