Proudest moment!!! A spinoff of the Biggest Regrets

[TheMooseIsLoose]

You all are too awesome to leave that sadness hanging....Give us what you're most proud of, and let it be about yourself, not your LO, cause we always have all the feels for them!!

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[TheMooseIsLoose]

Effing gif fail....and here I thought I had it down....sad face....

[americanninjamommy]

I'm most proud of where I've been able to take my career in the last 6 years.

[adelag]

I'm proud I went to college and have a good career. My parents didn't go so growing up it wasn't an expectation for me to go. I'm the oldest and also proud that I have set an example for my younger siblings and of course my kids!

[Jennifer18131]

My proudest moment was graduating cum laude with perfect attendance from law school.

[keelyd]

I'm really proud of the high standard I hold myself and my students to -- it's really easy to become lax as a teacher if no one is pushing you, and I am trying to push myself to keep the rigor level high always and to not fall prey to the you-have-a-kid-now-so-you'll-stop-caring-as-much mentality.

I'm also really proud of the runner I was up until the last few months (and that I will hopefully be again) -- I've run 2 marathons, 5 half-marathons, and met my time goal in my last race before pregnancy.

[ladymac815]

I am really proud of my new job. I was finally able to move to my field of study within my agency.

[TheMooseIsLoose]

I am also proud of my career....I seriously considered SAH after DD, but quickly realized it was NOT for me after my mat leave with DS, so I threw myself into it without sacrificing my family and met my career goal for age 30.

DH's parents split up right around the time we had DD. It was very messy, an affair was involved, it was public and his one sister definitely took his moms side. I worked really hard on including said sister and making her come back to the family as well as setting boundaries and reinstating family traditions as well as creating new one so all of our relationship with my FIL could continue and get as close to what it once was as possible. I'm proud to say that we've got it all worked out, my kids have both grandparents and my H and both his sisters have a healthy relationship with both their dad and their mom, and even SMIL. It helps that I've been around since I was 18, and I feel like family, but it was a lot of work! I used every bit of my college psych to make it happen

[carriedaway19]

The day I passed the Bar exam. After 3 years of law school, followed by 3 months of 10 hr. study days, followed by 3 months of waiting for results. It was the most challenging thing I'd done up to that point in my life and it taught me that hard work really does pay off.

[rosalie12]

Graduating from pharmacy school and passing my licensure exams. It was such a challenge and there were many times when I thought I wouldn't make it but everything turned out just fine. Six years of schooling really paid off in the end!

[alfibet]

I'm proud that I got my donkey baby to sleep... Kidding (sort of)

As a spin off to my regret post, my proudest moment was traveling the world at 19 years old. I planned the trips and booked the hotels on my own, exchanged the money and flew around with my BFF following the band we loved. It was scary, but it was so fun and I felt so... Carefree? Sort of afterwards. Like if I could do that I could do ANYTHING.

Edit: world not work. Traveling my work would not be fun

[victoria]

My mom signed herself up for a 10k (the woman didn't start running until she was 55) and asked me to sign up too. Her goal was to run the whole thing. Didn't have to be fast, but wanted to run it. She asked me to help her.

I hadn't really done any running since high school but I was determined to help her achieve her goal.

I hadn't run a step before the day of the race but both my mom and I crossed the finish line together and we both ran the whole thing! I wasn't expecting to be so proud of myself for that, but I really was and I started running at least a mile every day after that.

This is us at the end of the race.

[saraml13]

I'm proud of my education and career,. In particular, I'm proud of being successful as a woman in male dominated fields and professions. I went an Ivy League school, got an engineering degree, wrinkled as n engineer in the aerospace and defense industry, went to a top business school and got an MBA and a Masters ofEngineering Managment, and now work in the telecom and datacenter industry.

[kaylajade]

I am proud of myself for sticking to my morals and standing up to my dad about not having him in my life. He doesn't control me and It took a long time to realise that and do something about it.

[mrscjmb]

I am really proud of the fact that I moved to England at age 20, knowing no one and have been here nearly 10 years. It has been challenging but I am glad that I moved here and I am now a permanent resident.

[purplehippo]

When I pushed a 9 pound baby out of my vagina and then braved through having to go to the hospital afterwards. It may not seem like much to some, but that was huge for me.

[rockynfrankie]

I am most proud that I am not only the first, but still the only one in my family to go to college and graduated with a BS. I work as a preschool teacher and will never be able to pay off my prestigious private college education and poor DS will be paying for it till he retires but dammit I'm proud!

[munchkin120]

Im proud each time we go to the dr. Dd was IUGR and was born 5lb10oz and considered SGA. I'm EBF and I'm so proud that I'm the one solely responsible for her weight gain. She was 11pd8oz at 3 months.

[cornerofthesky]

The proudest was when I received my veterinary degree . It was the toughest thing I'd done and all I'd ever wanted to be growing up.

[crawford411]

I'm proud of my career and my degrees, but mostly I'm proud when I catch something that coukd change a person's life. This year, I've saved a foot from being amputated, found a pneumonia that our docs missed, caught a patient with a hemoglobin of 6 headed to surgery, picked up on 10+ cocaine users (really dangerous with anesthesia), and so on. It's such a blessing to have such an impact on people's lives for the better.

[mrsc928]

Graduating top of my class with my Business Degree (magna cum laude). Having a successful career where I could solely support myself and buy my own home.

[erawka]

As I mentioned, my biggest regret is also one of my biggest accomplishments.

Also, when I was doing a medical mission in Nicaragua, I treated a little girl for a really nasty skin infection. I also got her younger siblings caught up on some vaccines. The mom at one point reached out and just grabbed my hand and said "thank you." There was nothing extraordinary about what I had done for them, but it was the first time I realized that what I do does matter.

[mrssinner402]

I'd say I'm most proud of my weight loss. I struggled for a long time with weight. I was up to almoat 200lbs at 5'4". Then I lost over 50lbs and gained so much more confidence. And here's some pics because I'm an AW.

[heathera1979]

I am very proud of how DH and I have turned our financial situation around. We got married a week after high school graduation. I worked weekends at a grocery store and he started his first job the Monday after the wedding. We were so bad off at one point that we couldn't even afford a box of mac-n-cheese. We both worked hard and went to college. We bought a house almost 10 years ago, just paid off 2 cars and I'm about to start a bachelor's program and will pay most of it out of pocket.

As a spinoff of my biggest regret, I am also proud of the way DH and I went from the road to divorce to being each other's best friend a day completely and totally inseparable.

[puppyspit]

I am proud of my education: going back to school to finish my BS while working FT after a 10-yr hiatus

I am proud of my career: I have worked my way up from PT sales associate to Field Trainer (which makes me a corporate-level executive)

I am SO proud of the fact that I will be able to provide for my family once we move. DH will be in charge of running the household and I'll be making that bacon!!

[emerald27]

I have two proudest moments.

The first was my thyroid situation. Diagnosed with graves and put on anti thyroid meds when DS was 8mo old. Had a terrible reaction and was told that I would need to have my thyroid obliterated via radioactive iodine, because I'm allergic to anti thyroid meds. This treatment would require weaning and almost a month separation from my family. I was completely distraught, but got straight to work. Did lots of research and discovered that a total thyroidectomy might be an option for me. When my doctor said no, I sought a second opinion. Got the best surgeon in the area and had my thyroid removed when DS was almost 1. I was separated from him for a mere 5 hours, and continued to breastfeed him until age 2.5.

My other greatest accomplishment was giving birth to DS2 without pain medication. I'll admit that I had it easy with a 4-hr labor, but I'm still amazed that j could do it!

[itspbjellytime]

My proudest moment(s) would be the times I've stood up to my family. If I always did what they wanted for me I would have a VERY different life and I know that wouldn't make me happy!

[TheMooseIsLoose]

Jan 23, 2015 11:40:52 GMT -5 mrssinner402 said:

I'd say I'm most proud of my weight loss. I struggled for a long time with weight. I was up to almoat 200lbs at 5'4". Then I lost over 50lbs and gained so much more confidence. And here's some pics because I'm an AW.

You are beautiful!!! Congrats! Weight is always on my mind, and I hate that it is.

[aurora1181]

You are all amazing. I smiled reading all of these.

I'm proud of my doctorate and I'm also proud of my marriage- we have been married for over 11 years and been through so much together. Dealing with infertility for all these years, and all of the surgeries and IVFs and all the pain and heart break- and then TWINS and bed rest and premature birth and NICU stays- it's been tough but we have been there for each other the whole way.