The happiest point in your life

Summer of 72. I was eight years old.

In my neighborhood, they tore up 4 square blocks of streets to repave them and put in new drainage.

There were piles of rocks, gavel, dirt and sand everywhere. They were mountainous to us, and we climbed to the top of every single one of them.

Also, rows and rows of drainage pipes lined up, right alongside the massive trenches they were to be laid in.

But, the greatest thing of all, were the backhoes, bulldozers, steamrollers, and dump trucks that were left unattended after the workers went home. We climbed all over them, sitting in the seats and working the controls.

The greatest summer of my life.
 
I can't choose just one. None of the big planned events of my life stand out as much as little moments that just happened, here and there, now and then.

“Enjoy the little things in life because one day you`ll look back and realize they were the big things.” - Kurt Vonnegut

"A happy life is not built up of tours abroad and pleasant holidays, but of little clumps of violets noticed by the roadside." - Edward Wilson
 
Dave03 said:
But, the greatest thing of all, were the backhoes, bulldozers, steamrollers, and dump trucks that were left unattended after the workers went home. We climbed all over them, sitting in the seats and working the controls.
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Several years as a field mechanic were happy times for me. Imagine any of those except for a steamroller breaking down on a mountainside or remote location accessible only by use of a bulldozer dragging a blast mat loaded with the tools needed to effect a repair. My job was to repair on site , test the equipment onsite by operating what ever broke down. Obviously spring ,summer & fall best times to be outdoors. Winter not so much.
 
Isn't life peculiar? I too remember when my kids were small as being one of the happiest times of my life--and yet I also know that was always complaining and feeling completely overwhelmed. I remember at one point realizing that when they got older I'd regret having pushed them away so much.

I have had a few happy periods in my life. However, they are all over now.
 
When I fell in love the first time. Then playing HS sports. Then graduating from college. Then getting the best job teaching PE in a tiny place called Hampton for 33 yrs. Then spending time with my youngest child, Presley. She just turned 18 and we are very close. Watch lots of hockey and Netflix together.....Her life is just beginning while mine is winding down it seems. She makes me laugh and asks lots questions like I do.....today is saw a young pair of cardinals near my feeder. The female was on a branch above it and the male was taking sunflower seeds to her and feeding her. That made me happy today......
 
Marcy Sheiner said:
Isn't life peculiar? I too remember when my kids were small as being one of the happiest times of my life--and yet I also know that was always complaining and feeling completely overwhelmed. I remember at one point realizing that when they got older I'd regret having pushed them away so much.

I have had a few happy periods in my life. However, they are all over now.
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I think the best times were when I came home and my little daughter still at home with her mom would run to the door for me to pick her up and then go to the big chair for me to read to her.........I would also pick her up each morning to visit the back door and look at the birds on my bird feeder......everyday.
 
From 1998–2011. My kids were grown up and launched and I met the man that would become my third husband. We were still working but did a lot of traveling and we got along so well and had so much fun together.

I enjoyed raising my kids, but of course there were many stressful times and that marriage was difficult. I also spent a lot of time with my parents and that was a lot of fun. We bought a house next-door to them, which was wonderful. I think most people’s lives have a mixture of happiness and sadness throughout.
 
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