What is your VERY BEST memory?

dana316 · January 2011

Besides your wedding and having your children...What is your absolute best memory??

(I just finished reading that 'hardest' thing thread, and decided we needed some lightening up...you are a bunch of amazingly strong women, I'm in awe of each and every one of you).

So, let's hear the good stuff!! Go!!!!!!!!!!

BeccaLandes · January 2011

I don't know that I have a very best memory. I have so many great memories, of vacations with my family, laughing with family and friends, my time in college, dating/marrying my husband... I have had a wonderful life, and I feel very lucky.

I had a great moment this morning-- in bed with my husband and two boys, and my husband was tickling them, and it got to the point where they were both laughing just to see my husband's hands coming toward them. I love the sound of their laughs, and I love having this family!

browneyedgrl4282 · January 2011

A few come to mind and I can decide between these:

Meeting my new little sister after she spent 6 weeks in the NICU. I was almost 6 and I was so excited to be a big sister finally.

Of course another wonderful memory was when I went to visit my mom and other new little sister. I was 8 years old and I was more excited this time because I got to go the hospital and she wasn't sick like Holly.

I think the other non new baby sister related was when we all went to disney world. That was the last time my grandmother went anywhere because she ended up getting very sick.

tina623 · January 2011

My favorite memory (memories) were when I got to go live with my grandparents. I was 4 and they were like my parents and I had so much fun. I know I'm the mom I am today because of them. They had a farm in the country and it was the best.

kimarino13 · January 2011

The day I donated a kidney to my dad, having him walk in, with his IV pole with a million IV bags, and walk over to me, put his hand on my knee, and say "I can never thank you enough." We aren't a big verbal "I love you" family, but that's what he meant when he said that; I just knew. And his face was full of color again, not gray like it was pre-surgery. Best moment EVER.

Kristin&Frank · January 2011

I agree - I had to stop reading the "hardest" post. It was too hard to read.

On the same line though, one of my very best moments is depressing. Sept 11th. My Grandmother was living with us and was frail and losing it. She was trying to die - or so she'd tell me. Anyway, Sept 11th was the last specific day when I remember spending the day with her when she was completely coherent and knew what was going on. I cherish that day.

I know, it's a little sick, but it's a positive memory of HER, not of the day.

dana316 · January 2011

Finding out I was pregnant with Caroline was an awesome day (we thought my cycle was a bust)...and finding out I was pregnant this time was just as amazing...

Other than that, spending time with my beloved grandmother when I was a little girl. She lived in the country, and she let me do pretty much whatever I wanted and we had a great time together. I brought chickens in the house, we picked her orchard/garden/and strawberry patch everyday and that was a blast...we would go into town and get pizza sometimes, and we watched Young and the Restless every morning. I simply adored her.

DavezWife · January 2011

hmm..... so many on our big trip, but one of my favs....

Tiny village in the Philippines called Moalboal. Lots of scuba diving and that's it. We're sitting on the "patio" of a "pizza" place having dinner, and see a whole group of kids peeking at us. Soon we invited them closer, and they pulled up chairs and "interviewed" us one by one. It was hilarious. The next morning they showed up on my doorstep (surprise!) and took me to school as Show & Tell. They sang "I believe the children are the future...." on the dirt roads, and held my hand, and tried to talk me into taking them to some beach. I was paraded around each classroom, asked the same questions (where was my husband, what was his name, how old was I, what was my job - oh they LOVED the nurse part, and they loved hearing about the snow and ice in MN) It was magical, and the kids (and adults) were the most charming and happiest people I've ever met in my life. (and I bet if you pooled all their worth in the whole village, it would be $500. )

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oct92004bride · January 2011

Hard to pick just one. I always have great memories of being at the beach. This past summer Dh, DD and I flew a kite on the beach it was a perfect day. We also love just digging in the sand or going on a boat ride.

From childhood I really miss spending time with my Nan we always used to go to eat at this one restaurant. I miss those nanny/grandadughter days. We were super close.

BoilerSuz · January 2011

DH's birthday party last year. DS got it in his head that daddy was having a pirate birthday party. (One too many readings of Dora and The Piggy Pirates) For a month before I had been making decorations, having supplies sent to friends houses, ordering items in secret. The day of the party arrived with me faking going to work then staying home to massive transform our house. When DH and DS pulled into the driveway DH calls with "WTH?" and the background DS is screaming "It's your pirate party Dad!" I'm not sure who smiled the most that night. But surrounded by our closest friends, decked out in pirate items, a house decorated like a ship I felt like our life was perfect.

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