I've worked hard to get all sorts of qualifications, progress within my field and of course I'm proud of my home and family.
The one thing that gave me greatest satisfaction ever was learning to tie my shoe laces. I know I didn't find it easy but nothing has surpassed that feeling when I finally got it right.
I was the same, AC. I learned to tell the time with a cardboard clock that my mum used to show certain times, such as the start of Jackanory, time to leave home etc.
I won a carer of the year award with the company i worked with.
Families and company voted me best carer for going above the call of duty. Really loved my job and still miss all the elderly folks I helped take care of.
going to uni and getting a 1st - finally at the age of 30. i always thought i was too thick, too poor and uni was not for the likes of me. this was despite working 28 hours a week on top of my course (so when i was on nursing placements, i worked a 64 hour week); looking after my 12yr old son and caring for mr kicker, who was very unwell at the time. not to mention running the household and serving the cats (and i don't drive). i have no idea how i managed!
I would have to agree with rockyracoon. I can't think of anything I did in my life that made me feel as proud as did, when I gave birth to my three gorgeous daughters.
Even though they are now in their thirties, I still look at them and think, Wow, did I really have a hand in making these lovely girls.
I distinctly remember at the age of about 3 or 4 realizing that I could read the printing on my dad's Daily Herald......how it happened I don't know but I felt amazing and rushed round the house reading everything I could get my eyes on.....
I also worked hard at my studies and to think it all started from that "Eureka moment." ...
Raising two belting kids to be belting adults.....a few decades ago, preventing a workplace thief from having it on his toes with thousands of pounds of rare ethnographic artefacts.
He was my boss - never liked me much.
LOL..mosaic.bet you went froward in leaps and bounds from that minute..sounds just the sort of thing that happened in my case.....though it was more likely to have been...War Is Coming...on the front of the Daily Herald...:-)