Question of the day January 31st!

[kokopup]

Raising two Beautiful childen
Survived Cancer
Survived 50 years in work force.
Being a volunteer building Mtn Bike trails (recently helped raise over 200K in contributions and grants. This was a hard fought 3 year battle with the powers of resistance.
Built my own home. (It's never finished when you have a wife dreaming up new projects)

[Momto4FemaleFelines]

Great question!
I guess my answer would be becoming the private child care giver for the family I worked for over a nearly 20 year period.
I was just with the family yesterday, and let me tell you they are more like family than some of my blood relatives. The Mom and the Aunt to the children were both singing my praises and I felt really good.
Especially with the first child, a boy, the Mom really needed me as she was a single Mom. My husband and I took both kids under our wings as if they were our own. I didn't just baby sit them...we treated them as family, including taking them on day trips and such.
The boy is now 28 and the girl 14.

[Catherinedana]

My greatest accomplishment was changing my life about 6 or 7 years ago, regardless of what anyone else thought so that I could pull myself out of a going-nowhere life, sad and unworkable marriage and the depths of despair even though many friends and family were not supportive. I stopped smoking pot after smoking daily for almost 25 years, divorced my husband, moved out on my own and re-created myself!

Since then I have met and married the love of my life, began the music career I should have started when I was a teenager, been the safe forever home for many birds that never had one (even doing bird hospice once in a while for those that would not live long but needed love at the very end of their lives) and walking the path that will make me the joyful, spiritual being that I truly am!

Don't ever say that you have not accomplished anything, no matter who you are!! Living your life and being a light to your pets and families and friends means more than you can imagine. . .Cheers!

Cathy

[Twisterdog]

Raising my son

[popcornbird]

Marrying my beloved husband

Giving birth to my precious little baby boy

Next accomplishment I'm working on: trying to raise my little one hand in hand with my husband to be a wonderful person and a benefit to society when he grows up.

[Laura's Babies]

For me it was becoming certified and registered in the state I live in as a cook. Once I got the job as the cafeteria manager at school, that was required. It really was no big deal except that I hated school when I was a kid and made bad grades because I just wasn't interested in what they were teaching so I more or less thought I was a dummy. Those certification classes were some pretty intense classes, 8 hours a day, 5 days a week for 3 weeks. I breezed thorough all of then scoring some of the highest grades of anyone there. I found those classes interesting and at times, fun. But what they did for how I felt about myself was amazing. I knew then, I was NOT a dummy. (it wasn't until years later that I found out any restaurant that opens HAS to have someone who is registered and certified in the kitchen or they can't operate!)

Also my other accomplishment that makes me feel good about myself is the fact that I have taken care of myself (financially) since my last divorce in the early 80's and done a better job of it than anyone else ever has.

Raising my kids is one of the best accomplishment, seeing them become self sufficient, dependable adults.