What is something you have won in your life that you earned from endeavour not luck?

A marriage to the most wonderful and beautiful lady in the world. Of course that took effort on both our parts. I never thought myself capable of love before that.

“Best Daughter”

(poem from my Mom)

First was my Wo He Lo medallion as a campfire girl. (It’s their equivalent of the Eagle Scout.)
I always go back to that (even 30 years later) to remind myself that I am capable of finishing anything.
Most recent is weight loss. Hard work of diet and exercise, and even harder keeping it off 5 years.

I win awards for my artwork and it is always a nice thing to be recognized in that way :)

The thing that sticks out from high school is a trophy from a local language contest. I was second in the tri-state area for French!

Of course, there was also the medical degree, but that doesn’t have the greatest memories associated with it…

When my daughters were about 6 & 7. For Mother’s Day they gave me a small, plastic trophy, filled with M&M’s. The little plaque on it said, “World’s Best Mother.”

@Flo_Nightengale Yeah I have Father’s Day trophies to. Worth there weight in gold they are.

@ucme I still have the trophy but they ate the M&Ms, haha!

I was a blue-ribbon champion in my state in 1984 for storytelling and a couple of other forensics -type extracurriculars.

I competed for a journalism scholarship against a bunch of high school kids in the early 60’s and won.

It paid for tuition at the University of San Diego. Ended up majoring in Spanish.

I win year supply of goat cheese and tractor fuel when I do funny face of prime minister at party.

@VillageIdiot Sacha I told you not to bother me on here. Talk later, high five!!

Outstanding platoon trainee.