What is the best news you've ever received?

That my divorce was final.

When I heard my wife was expecting.

When my wife informed me she was pregnant, both occasions will live with me forever….because children happened :¬)

That we found an accessible, affordable place to live and I would finally be sharing a home with my husband and children. (The kids and I lived in one house and husband in another.)

When I was notified that my worthless son was shot like a rabid dog on the western front.

When, after two years, the SARS epidemic, and a boatload of paperwork, we finally received our approved adoption paperwork and a blurry passport photo of the most adorable baby ever.

When my ex was pregnant with my son. This was after four years of trying including numerous infertility treatments and two IVF cycles that failed.

I don’t know. I think it was different at different times in my life.

When I was 16 – that my g/f was not pregnant.

When I found out I was pregnant with our son. I think when I found out that I was officially cured after being in remission for 5 years, was the 2nd place finisher on my list.

It’s a boy. He’s perfect.

And several years later…

It’s a girl. She’s perfect.

Repetitive answer but when I found out I was pregnant the first time after 18 months of trying.

When our daughter was very young, she had an almost perpetual cough. The doctor raised the possibility of cystic fibrosis and recommended that she be tested. CF makes sweat saltier, so the test back then (maybe still?) involved bundling the baby up in a warm room and carrying her around for an hour to make her sweat, then analyzing the sweat for salt content.

There was only one clinic that did this test, and they were booked three weeks out. During those three weeks, we managed to convince ourselves that all her symptoms pointed to CF. I wonder how many times we licked that poor kid and debated her saltiness. A very long three weeks.

At the end of the test both my daughter and I were drenched in sweat, she for obvious reasons and I from sheer anxiety. Then we waited around for the analysis. It was negative.

@thorninmud oh jeez – my oldest had the sweat test for CF too.

It’s a girl.

Then.

A healthy, beautiful girl.

Then.

Takes after her mom.

Phew.

Two years later; it’s a boy. Same idea; resembled me.

When I was over 8 months pregnant I realized I had not felt my daughter kick or move for several days. I was petrified and went in for a monitoring. When her heartbeat showed up and I was assured she was alive and well, just losing womb space. lol

Next to that, yep, when my divorce came through and my ex moved out of the state. Oh the joy of having the entire state of California back as my very own. Not to mention he moved to Texas, where he belongs, in the devils wasteland. haha

When I was a kid and learned that I could go live with my dad. lol, sap moment

Also whenever someone says, alright fine, I won’t kill you. That’s always good news.

My parents let me see the movie Annie the day after I got to see E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.

Two new releases in two days is the best news for an 11 year old.

One of the best moments of my life was when I finally convinced my dad to give up smoking, that was over 10 years ago, and he hasn’t touched a cig since, I’m damned proud of my pop! :-)

Our “best” and “worst” of anything will certainly change over time, as they are values we assign given our current perspective. I’d probably struggle to answer the same question, Harple.

My short list of “some of the best” include: “You’re pregnant;” “it’s a girl;” “it’s benign;” “your construction loan has been approved;” “you’ve got the job . . . when can you start;” and from the perspective of one in a severe, prolonged drought surrounded by wildfires last year . . . “there’s a 90% chance of rain today.”

My second-best piece of news was “The margins are clean.”

It was a cyst, not cancer…...whew!

@gailcalled Yup, I can see that. Between the birth of a child and the knowledge that a dreadful disease is caught in time, both are wonderful and powerful.

Benign tumors rather than cancerous and I woke up from anesthesia just fine even though I was terrified of something going wrong.