what was the most memorable moment in your life?

[jake gillespie]

what was the most memorable moment in your life?:turtle:

[snoopy65]

I can only narrow it down to 3 as I have 3 children. But if asked to choose one. It would have to be the birth of my last....my son, who was 10 lb 13 oz:eek3:..........and I was 40 giving birth to him:eek3:.

[oscarluvr]

wow

[justahannah]

I have a feeling it hasn't happened yet...but to date, I'd stick with my husband's proposal at the top of a roller coaster :). Or maybe dropping his ring during the wedding....

[PuppyFluffer]

I have several.

The moment I really "got it" that my husband is with me forever.
The conception of my first child.
The birth of each of my three children.

[Captain Kitty]

The first time I saw a Pauly Shore movie.

Seriously though... When I met my beloved lady. Definitely memorable! =)

[Dangerdoll]

I would have to say my car accident in 88

[marinemad]

the birth of my children, when manisha was born 9 weeks early they came and told me she had meningitis! i remember them phoning my husband to let him know he didnt even come to the hospital or nothing! that was the moment i realised things would change in my life!
now my daughter is 3 and very well! and my husband is now my ex husband!

[Lady Ns]

I can think of a few, but I think the time I stayed at a friends place & went to sleep on their back verandah late in the afternoon, only to wake up with two of their black headed pythons sharing the couch with me takes the cake right now. I had one in my shirt & one wrapped about my waist, sleeping in the sun. I didn't sleep that night.

[Alan R]

I think anyone who has children will give the same obvious answer but for me it was when I held my daughter for the first time just after birth. Also the first time I cried since I was a child. They were happy tears. :)

[captaincaveman9]

Ummm my most memorable is to graphic to mention here. It was not pretty :(

[tennesseemom]

May 4, 1980 I was living in Maryland, 12 years old and I secretly taken from school and away from my very abusive mother and sent to live with my father who I had never met in Massachusetts.

I have 2 kids and I don't remember giving birth to them, they were both C/S and I was pretty well drugged up.

[noodles62]

Besides the birth of my 3 sons and the moment that my (2nd - thank God!) husband and I realized we were in love ----- being there to assist in the delivery of my first grand-daughter! It was amazing to be on the other side of it!

[Corax]

As one of those proud parent types, I'd have to say the birth of my daughter.. Nothing in my life has ever compared to that moment.

[noodles62]

May 4, 1980 I was living in Maryland, 12 years old and I secretly taken from school and away from my very abusive mother and sent to live with my father who I had never met in Massachusetts.

Wow! I hope things were much better for you with your father.
I work for child protective services and it good to see/hear success stories for the children that would have lived very different/bad lives without intervention.

[Redneck Woman]

I will have to say the birth of my three kids. Also the birth of my grandson who weigh in at 1pd 12ozs.(I now have custody of him):)

[Madcrawdad]

Ummm my most memorable is to graphic to mention here. It was not pretty :(

I'm gonna guess you and JRR, and it involved a little booze, a bottle of baby oil, and Frankie Goes to Hollywood blaring on the boombox. ;)

[noodles62]

I'm gonna guess you and JRR, and it involved a little booze, a bottle of baby oil, and Frankie Goes to Hollywood blaring on the boombox. ;)

:eek3: Too much information! :nilly::nilly:

[blissskr]

The birth of both my daughters, nothing else truly compares once you experience having a child (even though I didnt give birth to them).

[Chrisinator]

Memorable...... When two nails dug through my knees and when I plugged in copper wires on the socket and the whole house lost powe....I know..haha, memorable

[FISHSHROD]

The day my Daughter was born 29 years ago. It's funny, I thought about posting to this thread a couple days ago and now see that several people chose the same answer :) COOL

[Virtuoso2K12]

IDK you tell me your first jake,lol.

[pinkertd]

That would have to be when the doctor just finished yet another ultrasound on me very early in my second pregnancy. Both pregnancies were In Vitro babies. We'd already previously seen one heart beat and knew the doctor thought there was two babies. I had transferred 5 embryos. I was really excited to maybe have twins. I knew it would be my last pregnancy. So this ultrasound he told me there were two heart beats....and..... maybe a third! That's when I hit the doctor!! (not too hard, LOL!)

[excuzzzeme]

I would have to say the birth of my children, the day my wife and I married as I was so doggone scared I almost couldn't say "I do". I would also have to add in when my strokes hit. I knew what was happening and I knew I couldn't do anything about it.

[ronrico]

The first and last time I went skydiving. The first time was just amazing. The last time I collided with my friend and almost pulled his reserve chute on accident. That would probably have hurt a little. Thats when I realized exactly how serious it could be.

[FISHSHROD]

IDK you tell me your first jake,lol.
wow

[Reefscape]

Most memorable day for me was my daughter being born...september 11th, 2001 @ 2:22pm ( GMT )... a busy day for the world that day...

On that day, in the maternity ward, there were 12 in for c-sections...all 12 gave birth to girls...how bizarre...it was a 1st in the wards 40 year history..

[coach_z]

that time i was using the table saw and my finger got in the way!...ouch...i still have all 10 fingers

"that first time"

telling my current GF that i was going to marry her but i cant because i am 10G in the hole and cant even afford to take her out to Wendy's

[Eupterus]

-When I had to leave college because of other peoples' criminal activity. I felt like my life was totally ruined because I couldn't get my PH.d now. This story is so strange, most people think I am trolling when I share it. It's not usually worth sharing just to be called a troll.

-Moving back here due to the criminal situation at college which was supposed to be temp and getting stuck here in a terrible situation leading to loss of self empowerment with not enough money to leave. Basically an abusive situation which has taken a lot of my time and energy to just cope with.

I wanted to be here tops a couple of months and then move on. This place is completely hopeless. I've worked six days a week in this town before and still not had enough money to even buy myself enough food, let alone bills and rent.

-When I got sick aged ten yrs old with a disease that would take over most of my life.
Sure made it harder to fight in the rat race or earn more money to leave my abusive situation. Every time my disease came, I had to put my life/ job fighting on hold.

-I did take off before , slept in my car and went to public buildings. .I was finally free...Except I didn't have it in me to keep it up. I wish I could become my own person without choosing poverty and being homeless over this abusive situation.

A lot of aquarium fish died at my parents house during this time because I didn't go back for four months. It's closest I came from breaking it off with my parents. In fact, the poor fish is the ONLY reason I went back there.
I think my boarded fish is part of why I didn't just take off from here.
I would have separated from my parents a while back, but I don't have it in me to abandon my fishies to die boarded at my parents house. Sure I've tried to find new homes for them each time I couldn't take it anymore.
Nobody really cares, they'd rather go to a petshop and buy the same kind of fish then take them for free.I know because I saw the same kind of fish I'd been trying to give away for free selling at the LFS.

-When I decided that I would go back into the art field.
I had quit in the past deciding becoming an artist was unrealistic and moved on to other careers. I figured things are so hopeless here, that becoming an artist doesn't seem like such a bad idea anymore. It can't become much more hopeless so why not do something meaningful with my life.
It' not like I can get a job in what I studied in college without moving away because it's not available here.

It couldn't be more hopeless then working six days a week and still not having enough money for bills and rent. How could becoming an artist be worse then what's already here?....So I went back to working towards my artist career and haven't looked back...Much. I actually thought I might earn more money being an artist then what this town has had to offer someone with my educational background and skills.

The work load in becoming an artist is frightening. The time I spend troubleshooting, I don't want to think about. I money I spent on studio supplies?...don't want to think about that either.
Doing portfolio work is stressful and frustrating. The only thing that breaks it up is producing a few hopeful pieces.
I never really have a vacation...No time..Plus I predict this will continue during my whole artist career. Competition is fierce, work has to be nothing less then top quality to even consider entering the profession.
Getting hired as an artist looks bleak. IF there had been other more promising oppertunities, I would have never even considered it.
There's no other way I'd put myself through the hell that is becoming a pro artist otherwise. This might be the only bright side of this hopeless town and hopeless situation, I'd never become an artist if I had been allowed to have a higher paying job.

-When I realized I was possibly physically unable to have children. Maybe I want to be child-free, I don't really know except taking away teh choice made me sad.

-Each time I've had to "start" over again because my career was a failure.
Actually realizing that I've had several careers already. When people ask me about my careers, I'll be talking for a while. Usually I just mention the latest career instead of doing that.

[Star_Rider]

there are a lot of moments.

latest was my step daughter . she is an adult now with a family..she calls me Dad (because I was always there for here)and invited me to watch the birth of my grandson.

one of the most memorable people in my life was Mrs Johnson, my kindergarten teacher.
when I graduated from high school she invited the kindergarten class from that year to a party to celebrate our graduation..amazingly nearly the entire class came.

[swinneyw]

i have two when my daughter was born sept 27th 1965 and when she passed away feb 5th 2009 she was 43 years old