What Was The Happiest Moment Of Your LIfe

[Parche]

(Since I want to counter the saddest post)


I would have to say rescuing my baby 'Woos' (Kitty) who was 1month old and was abandoned
and had crawled up my car engine October 1986..........

[TrogL]

1. Got married a few months ago

Third time lucky?

[Arugula Latte]

2. Hi again, Parche.

I'd have to say giving birth to two beautiful, healthy human babies (not at the same time) were tied for happiest moments.

But getting kittens -- that is close! :loveya:

Wedding day was fabulous -- after it stopped raining we had a triple rainbow as the ceremony started.

Also getting into the college of my choice. I recall jumping in the air repeatedly.

BTW, my mom just got the most adorable orange and white kitten. He'd been brought into her vet's office after being pulled out of, you guessed it, an engine.

[JTG of the PRB]

3. Graduating from college.

When I was down in the middle of the sea of students in Folsom Field in May of 2006, sitting with friends, and throwing my cap into the warm spring air... That was probably when I had the biggest smile that has ever been on my face. Getting that diploma casing and walking across the stage as my name was read at the English ceremony was pretty damned good too, and the fact that my parents came for both was the icing on the cake.

[Arugula Latte]

4. I remember graduating from college and being sad.

I wished I could stay there forever instead of entering the dreaded Real World.

[Roon]

5. My brother is the same way

He was in college for 7 years. After he got his law degree he went downhill.

[JTG of the PRB]

6. I was pretty much ready to be done.

2005-2006 was my fifth year of college, and I was itching to get out and do something else. I had already been living in an apartment and working for almost three years before that, so I was ready to do something other than school.

Also, when I graduated from high school, my parents said they would pay for five years of college for me, and I REALLY didn't want to have to pay for it myself. Plus, I wanted that little piece of paper that confirmed that I did, indeed, get an edjumacashin.

[skygazer]

7. I am honestly not sure

I have three kids but my life was pretty tangled when all three of them were born so the feelings I had were somewhat mixed.

I've been married twice but I didn't want to be either time so they don't qualify.

I think maybe my happiest moment was when I was driving across the US to California from Vermont in 1998 and I realized that I'd cut all my ties and was free. Round about Wyoming I think it was.

That was a good moment.

[QMPMom]

8. There are two "happiest days"

in my life: January 6, 1986 and April 25, 1987.

Those were the days I found out I was pregnant with my kids.

[Eurobabe]

9. Wow, we have to narrow this to one day?? OK....

May 8, 1998, when I defended my master's thesis, I left the room for my advisors to deliberate - my main advisor opened the door, shook my hand and bellowed congratulations, you have completed your degree requirements and will receive your master's degree. That was a tremendous sense of accomplishment I felt, for I had always dreaded that day. But as it drew near, I had no more fear. I knew more than those 3 professors about my topic, and I blew them away in the orals.

:woohoo:

So many other days I could have picked, 12/12/81 the day my first child was born, 1/29/84 2nd daughter born, 9/4/92 the day I met my second husband, 6/28/00 the day I adopted the Demon...

Tough choice to narrow to one moment, but a much more uplifting thread to read than the other one... :hi:

[enigmatic]

10. When I met my wife

No contest.

[book lady]

11. One of my happiest moments was when my daughter told me that I was going to be a nana

[Dastard Stepchild]

15. And, conversely, when I got to share that news to this future nana :)

Oh... and finding out it was going to be a little boy made me smile nonstop for 48 hours straight. In fact, I'm pretty much still smiling.

[YankeyMCC]

12. Holding my son for the first time

there have been many more moments with him that perhaps I could pick but since that was the start of it all that gets number one billing. Cliche perhaps but sometimes cliches are cliche for a reason.

[HamdenRice]

13. You know what my Dad once said?

We asked him this and he said, getting out of the Army after WWII. At first we felt kind of insulted, like the birth of your kids (us) wasn't?

But that was before I really understood viscerally what WWII must have been like.

[Dragonbreathp9d]

14. Receiving an "I love you" (as I've given much more than I've received)

and a coupla shroom trips