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Toddlers: 12 - 24 Months
rlyttle
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What's the best & worst days of your life?
rlyttle
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As I said yesterday, my friend just passed away & it's tough. I've been trying to think of the great days that I've had & how lucky I am. It's hard to think of the best & worst. What are your best & worst days?
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Re: What's the best & worst days of your life?
Best Day - probably the day we got married. It was so much fun and I got to say things/have things said to me that I will forever cherish from family and friend and of course DH.
Worst Day - I have been blessed so far in my life (knock on wood) with very little death but probably the worst day was the day my mom almost died in a car accident (and subsequently spent months in the hospital recovering) when I was in high school.
Second Worst Day- Watching 250 friends and coworkers get laid off from jobs they loved at my last company (me included in that group). Many of them had been with the company since they were straight out of school or I had just hired them in from other successful companies into what ended up being a broke company. The fact that the CEO couldnt be bothered to come out of his office and deliver the news to them when he was a friend that had come up thru the ranks with many of them was probably the worst part. It was just an ugly sad day.
Thank you so much. Everyone has been asking me if I'm ok..I'm fine. It's not about me, it's about Corey's wife & children that have to go on without him. I've never experienced ANYTHING like that! I'm sad, but it makes me feel better that he's not suffering any longer.
I feel bad saying this, but when I had to put my dog to sleep after him being my baby for so long, that was very hard on me! Plus it was right after I had DS & I felt like I shouldn't feel sad when I have a new baby. That was tough.
I've always said that my honeymoon was the best week of my life. We had such a great time together!!
Wow, that would be awful!
Best: Aside from the expected wedding and kid birth days, I'd say Thanksgiving Day 2006. DH and I spent it on the beach in Maui and then had dinner at a fancy hotel. It was bliss.
Worst: February 13, 2009. My stepdad fell down the stairs, broke his neck/suffered head trauma, and ultimately died later that night after repeated CPR attempts. It was 2 days after my grandpa died and we had just returned from his funeral to witness the fall. This weekend marks 3 years of the most traumatic event I have ever experienced. I still have nightmares about those several days. 5 days, 2 funerals, huge loss.
I am sorry for your loss OP.
The first thing that comes to mind as a worst day is the day my father passed away. There's a few more... certain ones I don't like to talk about. At all.
The best is LO being born.
OP I'm sorry for your loss
Best day: other than my wedding and my son. I would have to say the day before ds was born. He was a planned c section due to size. Dh and I spent the day together just talking and getting ready for the rest of our lives.
Worst day: September 29, 2008 at 9:15am. I received the worst phone call of my life. My 14 month old nephew had died in his sleep of what we now know are unknown causes. I remember I almost didn't answer my phone because I was at work but something told me I better answer it.
I am so sorry for your loss.
Best days: When I got married, when I had Mollusk, when I went white water rafting down the Zambezi. Some other random ones.
Worst: When I was in the car accident that basically ended my career/passion/ambitions and started all my chronic pain. The days I lost loved ones, most recently when my dad called crying to tell me that my SIL (brothers wife) who was 8 1/2 months pregnant had notices my niece had stopped moving, when she went to L&D they told her the baby had passed. I was 2 months along with Molly at the time. It was one of the most painful things for our entire family.
OP, I am so sorry for your loss. It is so hard to say goodbye to loved ones.
My best day was the day I had DD, without a doubt. The other best days were my wedding day, and the day that I got to see DH for the first time after he'd been touring with his band for 6 weeks, back when we were dating.
Funny that you should post this today of all days, because, up until 2010, I would have said that my worst day was Feb 9, 1983, when my father died of cancer. (Hard to believe that was 29 years ago to the day!) Unfortunately, that day was replaced as my worst by Sept 14, 2010, just a month before I had DD, when my oldest nephew drowned.
The best days- my wedding day, my bffs wedding day, having DS of course. I feel like any day I get to spend just enjoying life and being happy watching my baby grow is one of the best days.
Worst days- when I lost each of my grandparents and uncle were all awful. I think the worst was December 17th, 1997 when I was 12 and watched my friend choke to death in front of me and my classmates while our teachers, nurse and everyone tried to save him.
Also, I remember 1 day at work (I'm a nurse), having to hand a mother her dying baby and watch him die in her arms. I usually can hold it together but I get so choked up thinking of them.
Gosh reading all of these events makes me realize that everyone has such painful memories in their lives. I hurt for everyone.
Best: DH and I had an amazing ski trip in France in 2006 that we desperately long to relive. Another top memory was a day we spent wine tasting in Sonoma and then the obvious ones, wedding and births.
Worst: April 30, 2008- we had returned from our first family vacation to Florida and I thought I had felt something in DS's tummy while playing in the water (like a hard lump, but DH couldn't feel it). I took him in to the peds the morning after we got home just because I figured I was an extra paranoid first time mom taking all precautions and it was probably nothing. I knew the moment I saw the dr's expression go blank that something was seriously wrong. The next 24 hours was pure hell. DS was diagnosed with Wilm's Tumor (childhood kidney cancer) and was operated on at noon on May 1. I sometimes still can't believe that my perfect, healthy, happy, little boy is a cancer survivor, but the memory of that day is always so vivid and his constant testing is a reminder.
OP, that is so tragic. I will def say a prayer for Corey's family. Thats so sad.
Best Day- 1/4/11, They day I gave birth and realized I had a daugher.
Worst Day- 8/6/03 When my gma passed, and hitting rock bottom after that.
best- wedding day and the day dd was born.
worst- in november the day i learned my friend and co worker died was bad. also the day i found out a co workers daughter was left in the car on a 90 degree day and died.
Sorry you're having such a hard time!
Best? Probably when I got engaged. Or possibly when DH and I first "hooked up"... I'd been crushing on him for like a year so it was fan-freaking-tastic to get it on.
Worst? My grandma's funeral. She practically raised my brother and me. I loved her so much. Seeing her casket was too real... :'(
ETA: It sucks that I honestly can't say the birth of my son was the best day... I had a terrible labor and once he was born he was whisked away to the NICU and I didn't even get to hold him for 6 hours. But my BFP is right up with the other 2 "bests".
Best-- the day my daughter was born. Or maybe the day we saw her on ultrasound for the first time and it sunk in that there really was a baby in there and she was alive!
Worst-- at the time, probably the day my ex husband told me he wanted a divorce. I was utterly devastated. But now, of course, I'm thankful for that. I am so madly in love with my current DH.
Worst day: April 6, 2009- the day of my life changing, debilitating car accident and the beginning of my now lifelong battle with fibromyalgia.
Best day- August 26, 2010- my DD's birth day and I count every day I've had with her since then as the best day. She's the light of my life!
It's too hard for me to narrow down the best day of my life.
As for my worst, it would probably be Mothers Day last year. It was my first year as a mother, and no one did anything for me at all. DH didn't even get me a card, and my parents wouldn't let us visit them because they we're too busy watching a basketball game on TV.
I know that sounds petty compared with, say, the loss of a loved one, but I really don't think I've ever felt as alone as I did on that day.
The best day of my life is when I gave birth to my son. The worst day of my life was when PPD/PPA hit me like a mack truck. Didn't even want to live anymore I was soooooo miserable. It was awful! Thank goodness for God, my therapist, my psych and my meds. Doing better now.
I'm really sorry about you losing your friend. I know that must be so hard...prayers still coming your way. Hugs...
Mom to Carter (6), and Calianne (1).
Proud VBAC, natural birth, breastfeeding, cloth diapering momma!