Can we have a happy thread?

jansus

I'm happy i have a lovely husband and three great kids.
I'm warm and well fed.
Health wise i have very little to complain about what's not to like :T

FBaby

I'm 43 and have never been so happy in my life. I had tought times in the past and never believed I would be lucky enough to be a mum, and then to be married to the love of my life. Add good health for all the people I love, healthy financial situation and many good friends, and my life is complete.

Ironically, I now am thankful that all this came late-ish in my life because I take non of it for granted. I know that I am massively fortunate and it helps me go through the inevitable frustrations of life.

Last night, my husband and I were invited to a work do of his. I desperately didn't want to go. I didn't feel well, was utterly exhausted, and didn't look forward to a party where I knew no-one and expected my husband to talk work to everyone. I so wanted to come home and have a quiet evening at home and started to feel agrevated by it. Then I reminded myself how I would have felt if I got the chance to go to a party with a lovely and sexy partner when I was single and my life evolved around work and the kids. I would have been so happy. So I imagine it was the case, and it made it much better. As it was, my husband was wonderful, acknowledge I was tired and thanked me for coming with him, looked after me the entire time, people were really nice and friendly, and when I reached the point when I really had enough, my hubby said no to another beer so we could go home. I went to bed feeling utterly happy.

All I want to say is for anyone who feels that it will never come to them, life might bring you some surprises. I certainly never believed I deserve such happiness and just didn't think it could happen.

lillie_put

I am Happy been really rough since nov but things seem to be getting better
Health no better but im still fighting this crappy thing
I have 3 wonderful sons a Dil maybe 2 DIL
I will be a Nain this year so happy for them an hearing my middle son saying if we can do as well as you have mum we will be luckiest people
Im happy as I live in a beautiful place damn cold house tho but lucky to have a house
im happy I have a lovely OH we have Ups n Downs but nothing is perfect 100% of the time
I have 2 lovely nutty dogs
we scrape by each month with bills at moment nothing we can do but dig heels in an get on with it
a lotto win be fantastic
I lift my head up and smile even when things are real crap things I can never change I have to learn to live with
all in all I am a very lucky lady
don't like being 45 but feeling 16
take care all
lillie_put

zaksmum

I'm happy too. Got my two lovely dogs... I'm still happily married after 43 years...two grown up kids...get along really well with my son and daughter-in-law...three gorgeous cheeky grandsons and a fourth grandchild due any day now.

Mostly great neighbours, good friends, no serious money worries.

I'm disabled, but I do know things could be very much worse. I don't believe in moaning about my lot in life because the only difference moaning will make is that people start avoiding you!

Far better to be a glass half full kind of girl...even if this particular "girl" is in her 60s...!!

Jinx

Happy and 40 here. Healthy, employed, marriage back on track after a bumpy few months and currently thinking of moving house so the excitement of looking. A big 'happy' of mine is having grandparents still - I am very very lucky on this score.

And hands up here for another who loves coming in to her happy mogs after work

FBaby

I don't believe in moaning about my lot in life because the only difference moaning will make is that people start avoiding you!

This is so so true. Don't know who the fault lies with, but regardless, it is often the outcome, so one is always better off trying as hard as possible to take a positive outlook (even if there are times when you hide yourself away).

Lieja

I've just come back from walking my dog in the mud, wind and rain, in a right strop because he pulled so hard on his lead waking through a gate that he injured my hand, and then when I let him off for a run he legged it through the fence to the next field and refused to come back. I had to climb over a barbed wire fence, scraping both legs along the way, and then chase him around before grabbing hold of him with my poorly hand.

He pulled all the way back, and I felt sick with the pain. He's so stressful at times.

I've made a cup of tea and opened this thread, and I suddenly feel all happy

We're moving house soon, only rented but it's my perfect house and the landlord would be happy to sell once we've saved a deposit. My job is going so well and we actually have money spare at the end of the month after years of scraping by, and my OH is so lovely and perfect that I feel like the most loved girl in the world.

The dog can be quite cute too, when he isn't being a menace.

marisco_2

What a great thread. Well to quote a lovely song 'I've got sunshine on a cloudy day, when its cold outside I have the month of May, I guess you'd say, what can make me feel this way?'............

Well first and foremost I am so very proud of the lovely class of children that I teach. They had maths and English assessments last week and all of them have gone up at least one sub level from where they were at in September. So it looks like I am doing something right. Education is about far more than levels of course but to know they are heading in the right direction gives me such a huge buzz.

My laptop which has been very poorly, is now back all sorted and running like a dream. Sky TV turned up yesterday and installed all the new things I had ordered and it is working so far without a hitch. Talk about tempting fate hey!

Best of all I am sat here watching my kids glued to 'Tom and Jerry' listening to them killing themselves laughing at all the scrapes that daft cat gets himself into. Secretly loving revisiting a favourite part of my own childhood if I am honest, but pretending to be working hard. Sometimes you just have to decide to chill out and really enjoy the simple things in life so as the worrying black thunderclouds hovering over worries and concerns are easier to approach and handle.

mysecretalias

I want to join in with this because for the first time in many years I am HAPPY.

Following lots of health problems, family issues, money worries, god knows what else, I am currently with the love of my life and have been for 3 years (after 6 years of being in a miserable relationship with an utter ****), we are having our first baby (something we were told would never happen due to my health), and are in the process of buying our first home (again never thought this would happen due to money worries caused by ex)

I can, for the first time in a very long time, honestly say that I have never been happier. It's actually making me well up a little typing this because I never thought I'd be in this 'place'

zaksmum

I was in hospital many years ago for six months and there were several amputees on my ward.

One man had lost both legs at the hip...he looked like a man cut in half.

But he was laughing and joking - a real pleasure to be around.

One day I asked him how could he be so cheerful under the circumstances. He said "Well girl...you can see I've got no legs. I could sit and cry all night and in the morning, I'd STILL have no legs. The only thing whinging will change is that my mates, who come to my house most nights and push me round to the pub for a few pints, will stop coming round because they'll get sick of me moaning. So I'm going to keep smiling!"

Wise words indeed.