The Best Day of Your Life

Heather75
Heather75 Posts: 3,386 Member
edited September 28 in Chit-Chat
What was it? What made it so wonderful?

I have had lots of good days, but one of them was when I was in Costa Rica and finally got to visit the Monteverde Cloud Forest. It was amazing. The life there is so prolific. I stood on a bridge on the continental divide and felt the wind from two oceans on my face. I was happy.
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  • taso42_DELETED
    taso42_DELETED Posts: 3,394 Member
    I'm tempted to say, the last day of high school. Or when I got my driver's license.
  • Swimgoddess
    Swimgoddess Posts: 711 Member
    On the ultrasound table when I found out my third baby was a girl (I have two boys already). I was just so thrilled that all my hard work and research on gender swaying paid off. I followed this horrid super low sodium/potassium and high calcium/magnesium diet for four months prior to conception, underwent constant pH monitoring, BBT charting, wore ki-flow bracelets, popped cranberry supplements and forced myself and my spouse to have the most lackluster procreative activities ever (otherwise it messes with the pH). It was SOOOOOOO worth the trouble! I love having the daughter I always wanted!!!
  • mlagena
    mlagena Posts: 154 Member
    Mine would be the day I became a member of Kappa Kappa Psi!
  • Heather75
    Heather75 Posts: 3,386 Member
    I'm tempted to say, the last day of high school. Or when I got my driver's license.

    Those are both good days for anyone!
  • Heather75
    Heather75 Posts: 3,386 Member
    On the ultrasound table when I found out my third baby was a girl (I have two boys already). I was just so thrilled that all my hard work and research on gender swaying paid off. I followed this horrid super low sodium/potassium and high calcium/magnesium diet for four months prior to conception, underwent constant pH monitoring, BBT charting, wore ki-flow bracelets, popped cranberry supplements and forced myself and my spouse to have the most lackluster procreative activities ever (otherwise it messes with the pH). It was SOOOOOOO worth the trouble! I love having the daughter I always wanted!!!

    That stuff really works? I had no idea!
  • Heather75
    Heather75 Posts: 3,386 Member
    Mine would be the day I became a member of Kappa Kappa Psi!

    What was so good about that day? How did you feel?
  • GorillaNJ
    GorillaNJ Posts: 4,024 Member
    The easy answer was when my first son was born, or the second when we did not know if it would be a boy or a girl and i saw the bean bag again... :happy:


    but other then that after college my friends and I back packed through Europe and the best of those days was spent exploring Pompeii during the day and the evening with a couple of Italian girls on the rock beach of Sorrento with a couple bottles of wine
  • Swimgoddess
    Swimgoddess Posts: 711 Member
    That stuff really works? I had no idea!

    Yep! I have a profile on FertilityFriend with all the TMI details if you or anyone else is interested; will send content if PM'd. It was like an obsession for me because my hubby agreed to one more, so I wanted it to be as close to guaranteed as possible.
  • 1crazymom
    1crazymom Posts: 434 Member
    When I was having a troubled pregnancy and heard the baby's heartbeat! But nothing could beat the the days my boys were born! Aww I was so in love, still am:love::love: !!!!
  • CassieLEO
    CassieLEO Posts: 757 Member
    The happiest day of my life was the day my son was born. It was so much different and better than the birth of my daughter (we had a lot of complications with her delivery and she was wisked away from me right after birth) Everything went according to plan, and he was the most beautiful baby in the world. He was just perfect. My husband at the time was crying and I was crying and it was so amazing tears of happiness and joy that wouldnt stop for either of us. Time stood still and nothing else in the world mattered at that time and moment....That will forever be the happiest day I will ever remember.
  • Heather75
    Heather75 Posts: 3,386 Member
    This is nice. I like hearing your happy stories, all.
  • Heather75
    Heather75 Posts: 3,386 Member
    Double post, because I lack patience.
  • TDGee
    TDGee Posts: 2,209 Member
    Mine was the day my daughter was born. I had spent the previous 9 months NOT wanting this suprise child. I was in my late 30s and had three boys, the last one four years earlier. I was, for lack of a better term, a miserable f@ck.

    We went into the OR, for the scheduled Cesarean, and I was feeling a little guilty, and possibly very superstitious that my bad attitude would make this baby abnormal or something even worse. Needless to say, I was a nervous wreck, adjusting what I could reach and generally making a nuisance of myself to the point where I was escorted out of the OR before the baby was born. Talk about a raging lunatic!! The Cesarean proceeded without incident, I was allowed back in just in time for me to be handed my newest baby, a pale little girl with RED hair!! She was awake and looked up at me with those big, dark infant eyes, and, well, I didn't even feel her wrapping me around her tiny little finger. Suddenly, life would never be the same for me. She literally saved my life, because a little girl can't have a father who does stupid stuff, he needs to be around to clean the shotgun when the boys come around..

    It's been 8 years now, and I'm still wrapped tightly around her little Disney Princess/Tomboy finger.
  • SimplyFreckled
    SimplyFreckled Posts: 444 Member
    I have two best days...

    December 30th when my beautiful daughter was born.
    September 16th when my amazing son was born.
  • mlagena
    mlagena Posts: 154 Member
    Mine would be the day I became a member of Kappa Kappa Psi!

    What was so good about that day? How did you feel?
    That day was a culmination of so much hard work in an organization supporting my favourite activity - Band! I was very proud to receive my membership pin because it was the first thing i'd ever done both or myself and others. This organization taught me SELF RESPECT as well as hard work and respect for others! I now have a network all over the United States of Brothers that I've never even met bit I know will offer me room and board if I need it. I feel safe and warm with these people!
    I guess another awesome day, besides graduating university, was when I received my Life Time Membership!
  • cjrss03
    cjrss03 Posts: 22
    The day I graduated from university. :) I felt like the whole world was laid out before me and I was amazed that I had actually completed what I had set out to do 4 years earlier.
  • TDGee
    TDGee Posts: 2,209 Member
    I got another one!
    In late October of last year, my 20 year old son called me from Afghanistan. (US Army, Airborne, Engineer, Medic) This is my tough, badass son. His unit in Afghanistan was responsible for making sure the roads were clear and safe, looking for and eliminating IEDs, that sort of thing. He related to me how while on a mission, they had stopped to investigate a suspected explosive in the middle of the road. Part of the medic's job is when the convoy stops is to set up a likely casualty treatment area. While setting the area up with a fellow medic, a second explosive device, hidden in the area of the treatment area went off. My son was back at the vehicle getting some gear, but his buddy was killed, and another seriously wounded. He was almost in tears and difficult to understand at times as he spoke. "Dad," he said, "I had to pick up the pieces of my friend!" That phrase haunts me now. We talked for a little while longer, and he regained his composure, transforming back into the warrior that he had become. We hung up, with promises to talk again soon, but no promises on dates or times, because of the nature of combat operations. I didn't speak to him again, only getting quick emails, they were extremely busy, and he had no time, but he would call as soon as possible, and that he would be home from his year long deployment soon. Back to the constant worry and scanning the news and internet for word or a glimpse of my son. Didn't sleep for a year.
    New Years Day, I open my front door with cash in hand for the pizza guy (It was New Years!! and football was on, don't judge!) I was greeted by a 6 foot tall blonde guy with a goofy grin. My son was home and safe!
    Best day ever.
  • cdngirl71
    cdngirl71 Posts: 2,641 Member
    Holding my first born niece, I held her 10 min after she was born. Was the best day, so tiny, precious and beautiful. She will be turning 20 this year!!! I have 3 other neices as well but her birth was the most memorable due to my sister having so many complications with her first.
  • KayakAngel
    KayakAngel Posts: 397 Member
    Last October, I was in Folly Beach (near Charleston, SC), and my husband, two sons, and I went kayaking on the Folly River and out into the sea a little bit. My sons are teens, so I was just happy I could talk them into going with me. The weather was perfect, sunny and in the 70's. We rode the tide out to a sand bar, where there were tons of shells. We picked out some large, nice shells, played around in the tide pools, and eventually got back into the kayaks. Then we paddled back as the tide shifted and pushed us back in, and there were dolphins everywhere! They were swimming all around us and one by one were coming up for air. One of them surfaced really close to me, and he looked at me. That got me - a euphoric moment.

    Maybe I can't define that day as THE best of my life (the days each of my boys were born were very nice too), but I have to say, it is the most vivid to me, and I still get a thrill when I remember it.
  • copperdave
    copperdave Posts: 146
    The day disco died. Okay...seriously? The day disco died.
  • janemartin02
    janemartin02 Posts: 2,653 Member
    When I married my husband 18 years ago.The weather was 90+100% humidity, rained ,everything that could go wrong did,but the day was the best day ever.I love my husband as much if not more than that day I married him.
    jane
  • DreamLittleDarling
    DreamLittleDarling Posts: 800 Member
    First... Ted, the one about your son made me cry! Love it!

    Second... Happiest day of my life hasn't happened yet, and with my husbands career (Active duty Army), unfortunately it will be a day that probably happens more then once in the next 20 years, I'm sure... We're on the downhill slide of a year long deployment to Afghanistan. Happiest day of my life, by far, will be the day that man steps foot back into our home and into my arms!

    To this point though, the happiest day of my life would be the day I graduated nursing school. Through the course of that last year I had cancer, had surgery 3 times, treatments once a week in Houston (2 hours from home), went through a nasty divorce, evacuated from Hurricane Rita (just a couple weeks after Katrina, kicked my home towns *kitten*!), lost a dear friend, saw my sister off on her second deployment, my oldest daughter had surgery... If it could go wrong in my life, that year it did. There were so many people, including the director of our program and my mother, who just begged me to quit and go back next year... "just go take care of yourself, Tami, you're spot will be waiting for you when you come back!" But I just couldn't, graduating was the only thing I actually had to look forward to at that point in my life! So, August 10, 2006 I graduated at the top of my class, cancer free, with my family, my doctors and new boyfriend (now husband) in the audience cheering me on like we were at the Super Bowl lol. The director of our program cried when she gave me my diploma and pin, and I actually got a standing ovation from all of my classmates and everyone in the auditorium. I have never felt more loved in my life, as I did at that moment! =)
  • _Aimée_
    _Aimée_ Posts: 190
    The day I pushed my little son out of my hoohoo! What an amazing experiance.
  • DreamLittleDarling
    DreamLittleDarling Posts: 800 Member
    The day I pushed my little son out of my hoohoo! What an amazing experiance.

    I can not tell you how much joy it brings to me that you say "hoohoo!" I say that all the time, and people make so much fun of me! I have insisted, for YEARS, that hoohoo be the official technical term... but so far, NO LUCK!
  • _Aimée_
    _Aimée_ Posts: 190
    The day I pushed my little son out of my hoohoo! What an amazing experiance.

    I can not tell you how much joy it brings to me that you say "hoohoo!" I say that all the time, and people make so much fun of me! I have insisted, for YEARS, that hoohoo be the official technical term... but so far, NO LUCK!

    Haha! I think its quite a common phrase in the UK. Hoo hoo, bajingo and lady garden are my favourites!
  • Tankplanker
    Tankplanker Posts: 365 Member
    The night the twins were born, the relief that they'd finally come out healthy and that my wife was ok was immense, I'd gone the last three days being told that all three had only a 50/50 chance of making it.
  • healthyjen342
    healthyjen342 Posts: 1,435 Member
    The best two days of my life:

    July 27th, 2006...The day I met my daughter (She's my husband's daughter, and I've been with her since that day), and that night she fell asleep in my arms..
    December 30th, 2009..The day I delivered my son..After 41 weeks of pregnancy...16 hours of labor...My son was born..It is truly a Divine feeling to deliver a child. I have never felt such an amazing feeling.
  • BigBoneSista
    BigBoneSista Posts: 2,389 Member
    I haven't yet experienced the one day. I have 3 children so I can't chose one over the other. I got married but we were sort of pushed by our families to make our union legal so I can't even chose that day. However I think the day we renew our vows with our children surrounding us at the beach on a tropical island will be the best day of my life. It will be a day filled with happiness and everlasting love. My hubby and I have been talking about doing it but since he is deployed we haven't been able to set a date yet.
  • Sh1tsRainbows
    Sh1tsRainbows Posts: 1,227 Member
    I got another one!
    In late October of last year, my 20 year old son called me from Afghanistan. (US Army, Airborne, Engineer, Medic) This is my tough, badass son. His unit in Afghanistan was responsible for making sure the roads were clear and safe, looking for and eliminating IEDs, that sort of thing. He related to me how while on a mission, they had stopped to investigate a suspected explosive in the middle of the road. Part of the medic's job is when the convoy stops is to set up a likely casualty treatment area. While setting the area up with a fellow medic, a second explosive device, hidden in the area of the treatment area went off. My son was back at the vehicle getting some gear, but his buddy was killed, and another seriously wounded. He was almost in tears and difficult to understand at times as he spoke. "Dad," he said, "I had to pick up the pieces of my friend!" That phrase haunts me now. We talked for a little while longer, and he regained his composure, transforming back into the warrior that he had become. We hung up, with promises to talk again soon, but no promises on dates or times, because of the nature of combat operations. I didn't speak to him again, only getting quick emails, they were extremely busy, and he had no time, but he would call as soon as possible, and that he would be home from his year long deployment soon. Back to the constant worry and scanning the news and internet for word or a glimpse of my son. Didn't sleep for a year.
    New Years Day, I open my front door with cash in hand for the pizza guy (It was New Years!! and football was on, don't judge!) I was greeted by a 6 foot tall blonde guy with a goofy grin. My son was home and safe!
    Best day ever.

    while i love the story about your daughter being born cause the birth of you children are amazing days...this one gave me the chills!! thanks to you and you son for your sacrifices!!!!
  • mrscjwilson
    mrscjwilson Posts: 252
    What was it? What made it so wonderful?

    I have had lots of good days, but one of them was when I was in Costa Rica and finally got to visit the Monteverde Cloud Forest. It was amazing. The life there is so prolific. I stood on a bridge on the continental divide and felt the wind from two oceans on my face. I was happy.
    My family is from Costa Rica I go visit regularly!!! Monte Verde is Amazing!
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