Happiest moment? Hmmm, too many to count...I will just list a few.
About 4 years ago, apple picking with my two girls, H, my 'surrogate' son and my neice. We were riding on the hayride, the sunshine was perfect and we were all talking and laughing and smiling together. I spontaneously wept with tears of pure joy that we were all there on that beautiful day and so happy - we were like a 'family'. The kids, of course, laughed at my tears!
The day I married H when the JP had him repeat the line, "in sickness and in health" and we both smiled because we had already been there done that the previous year when I had to have emergency lung surgery and was incapacitated for weeks and weeks.
The day I realized, after the age of 30, that my mother had become one of my closest confidantes.
The day my easy child was born of course, and the day difficult child stopped her non-stop crying at 3 months of age.
The day it occurred to me that I was financially independent.
The day my exh told me he was sorry, nearly 12 years after we separated. He also said I was the best mother he ever met in his life.
This is an excellent thread for me today. I haven't posted much as I'm having a really awful time of things this week.