Come and celebrate our new [thanks] emoticon by saying Thank You to a Mumsnetter who's made a difference. Spot prizes to be won and all!

[HelenMumsnet]

Hello.

We have a new emoticon:

It's meant as a way for say thank you to someone for something nice/funny/amazing they've done or said. And it's in no small way inspired by the lovely Mumsnet Blanket Crew who've been agitating- very politely but very persistently - for a thank you emoticon for some time now. (They originally wanted a star but we thought a bunch of flowers probably had a bit less of the 'prefecty'/'sticker chart' thing going on.)

We want to mark the arrival of our new emoticon by starting this special Thank You thread - and inviting you to say to another Mumsnetter who's made a difference to you.

Perhaps it's a Mumsnetter who has posted (or PM'd) something that helped you or supported you or inspired you ? or just made you laugh like a drain. Or maybe it's someone who's done something extraordinary for you, off-board or on.

Do come and tell us about it - and thank her/him for it - here. We're hoping for a thread full of for some truly lovely MNers.

Oh, and we've also got some rather covetable prizes - books, toys and some very cool (child and adult) bike helmets from Bell - to give away as spot prizes. Anyone who posts on this thread is in with a chance of winning - we'll pull names at random out of a hat in a couple of days' time.

, MNHQ

that would be of course!

to SDTGisanevilgenius , she has taught me much with her completely and utterly dignified response every . single . post.

thank you for flowers i received.

lots of people i could thank but want to thank AlysWorld for her massive encouragement and help with my phd proposal and just for believing in me and convincing me i could do it so and you're ace x

I'd like to say to mummymeister for looking out for everyone on the 'Chickens' board and always having words of wisdom for us when our chooks are in strife.

Themildmanneredjanitor, Gorionine and Cornsilk...coz thems me mates on 'ere.

Expat - for the Tendskin recommendation. Changed me life. Well, not really but it does work!

I love this thread.

to you all. You just go to show what MN is about

Aw, back at'cha Val

A massive to LucindaE and all on the Hyperemesis Awarenes threads. She picked up on my condition before we did after noticing a thread my husband started as he was so worried and confused about what was happening to me. No one I knew had even heard of HG so having people to talk to who understood made more of a difference than I can ever express in words.

to *Jacksmama who sent me two parcela pf ginger mita when i had morning sickness and couldn't eat much else.

To the other Tearoomers who have listened to me whinge for at least a year about wanting to move away from my current location.

To the feminists for the debate and solidarity. They remind me that it's not me who's crazy but the world I live in.

all.

to all of you. You are amazing!

*ginger nuts
Sorry had the setting to the wrong language and it autocorrected me.

to all the threadkillers
to all the tearoom ladies
to all the twilight ZONERS who have gravitated all over the place now (especially Belle and Gigglewitch)
to the radishers

to JareththeGoblinKing for being there to chat to in mutual support over the last few weeks
to AnyFucker for just being fab

to those on the SN board who make the rest of us aware of how our loose language affects them, especially as they are sick to death of having to do it but still carry on

and to the Woolly Wonders - Purplepidjin, Knottylocks, Lydia and Ivy especially - and to Georgimama for knitting up my wool for me

to MNHQ for starting and facilitating this general outpouring of gratitude

I have for all the stages of my time on MN -

so to the pregnancy board haunters for suggesting things I could bear to eat (and resisting the evil urge to type 'greasy pork sandwich' - yeah, I'm sure you wanted to!). Thanks for the support when DS was late, when I was contracting intermittently for a week, and when I was induced and dreading it...

to tiktok and moonfacemama and organiccarrotcake and all the BF-knowledgable people who held my hand through DS's crazy first week of not-feeding, and then tounge tie division, and then growth spurts, ohgodthegrowthspurts, and kept me sane and laughing. If you could put a price on support like that, I certainly couldn't afford it!

to the Feminist/Women's Rights regulars who inform and educate and entertain me every day. I can't start a list without going on for pages, so will keep it at: dittany you are missed! And the rest of you, well I bloody love ya!

to MNHQ for this place. I get recipes and parenting advice and hear rude things beyond my modest ken and laugh and snort out loud so DH says from across the room "is it the bumsex thread then?" ....

I wish I'd known about Mumsnet when I miscarried. From the support I've experienced here at tiny little upsets, I just know I wouldn't have felt so desperately alone. This is a valuable resource, I'm so glad I found it.

forgot one:
to all the overseas ladies who chat, especially the Aussie ladies and extra especially the Sydney/NSW MNers, the ones I have met and the ones I have yet to meet - you're all fab!

to the threadkillers; the Living in Germany girls who let me post though I haven't lived there for years; the Living in America girls, because I do; and the February 11 thread for all the fantastic support.

to everyone who has made me laugh, or given advice on someone else's thread that I could use myself.

MN rules!

to Iamseeingstars and SansaLannister for supporting me through post surgery emotions this week

to the SN: Children ladies esp Indigobell and Ellenjaneisnotmyname

Can I add to GentleOtter for dogsitting duties and general fabulousness. I love her stoicism and humour, even when her house is - literally - crumbling around her. And the fact that she still takes time to post wise and kind advice to MNetters in need.

And to SGM for the I AM CANADIAN moment, which still makes me laugh out loud.

for

angsty wankers, who have helped me through one of the worst years of my life, with their eloquence, wit and kindness.

justa who has been so kind and offered so much advice and guidance with regards to my ds

everyone on the SN boards who have provided so much advice and support over the last year.

I'd like to thanks all the posters who supported me recently and helped me get the elderly parents topic that started recently

and also tiredemma for sending my boys and me something lovely accompanied with a lovely letter a few years back

to you all!

even ha ha!

Thank you, MmeLindor.

to AbsOfCroissant in her SerenityAKA guise, for unintentionally creating IPOAT.

I agree with Bran having

And Paggy needs for her underfrontal nethers

And Shirl needs because she makes me weep with laughter