Hello and welcome to the home of Word of the Week, a nice and simple weekly linky, with everyone welcome to pop by and share. The idea of the linky is to reflect back on your past week and share it with us. It’s great if you can sum it up in a word or phrase, hence giving us your Word of the Week.
There are not too many rules with this linky, just remember to read at least another couple of posts in the link up after adding your link. Do try to stick to the theme of summing your week up. I will read and comment on all posts and tweet them out for you. I also have a Pinterest board devoted to Word of the Week and I will add posts to Mix Please add the badge below to your post so that others may find us and join in. If you comment or tweet then please use the hashtag #WotW
Word of the Week is open from 6am on Friday Morning to 12 noon on Monday. Plenty of time to join in!
If you are unfamiliar with the Word of the Week linky then please feel free to ask any questions. New linkers are always welcome, we love to hear what you have been up to in the past week.
MY WORD OF THE WEEK
Dentist
Ok, there has been a lot going on this week, and I could have chosen a lot of words. I have gone with dentist because this week I had to have two back teeth extracted. I have never been afraid of the dentist, but for some reason my anxiety was extremely high.
The Dentist was incredibly nice and made me feel totally at ease. The extraction barely hurt at all and although when the anaesthetic wore off it hurt, I was able to control the pain with regular pain relief. For the first time ever, I have stitches in my gums which I’m waiting to dissolve or fall out. It wasn’t a bad experience after all.
A Few Words About Word of the Week
I think Jocelyn, the founder of Word of the Week, did an excellent job of creating a wonderful community. I was thrilled to be able to take over and even more thrilled that so many regular contributors moved with me. So Thank you, to all my WotWers (doesn’t quite have the right sound does it, you can be my WoWers instead 🙂
The idea has always been to sum up your week in a word or phrase, but we’ve never been really strict on that. Basically we are a link up of weekly round up posts and I’m happy to accept any of these kind of posts, even if you don’t have a particular word. Recently I’ve accepted the lovely Laurie from Meditations in Motion who writes lovely thought provoking posts and round ups. Also new is Enda from Endastories who also gives us wonderful insights to his life and thoughts. It’s great when we have new people join our little community and I hope they will stick around.
My aim is also to round up a few people who used to link up before and see if they want to join us again. It would be nice to catch up.
Also, I would like to occasionally give a shout out to a linker or two as I’ve done this week. So, no big changes, just a couple of little ones.
Finally, a big, huge, massive, Thank You to all my WoWers. x
Here’s the badge
And now it’s over to you, come and tell us what you’ve been up to in the past week.
It’s good that your trip to the dentist wasn’t as bad as you anticipated, it’s never fun visiting is it. At least it’s over with now and the pain was manageable, I get so grumpy when I have any sort of pain in my mouth. They are nice little changes you’ve made to word of the week, I enjoy reading round up’s, it’s interesting to see what everyone has been up to. Thanks for hosting each week Anne, I love linking up x
Thank you Angela, I love reading about everyone’s week too. Thank you for being a big supporter xx
I love this linky and the supportive community that comes with it. It’s one of only two pinkies that I have regularly joined in with since I started my blog (CountryKids being the other one). It’s such a lovely way to take time to reflect on the past week. I was so glad that you took it on and so glad that so many of the regular linkers continued to join in. The little changes feel natural and keep with the spirit of the linky. I’m glad that your appointment with the dentist went so well and that you are managing the pain from having your teeth removed. That would have made me quite anxious too so it’s reassuring to know that the process itself was relatively painless. Hope you have a good weekend and thank you as always for hosting #WotW x
Thank you Louise, it’s always worked really well so I didn’t want to fix what wasn’t broken, but I did feel the need to make the linky a little clearer to new comers. I didn’t want to put people off just because they couldn’t think of a particular word. I know there have been a few times when I haven’t been able to come up with one. I do love having a good catch up with everyone’s week though. Thanks for being a big supporter xx
I’m glad the dentist wasn’t as bad as you imagined. Sounds like you’ve found an understanding dentist. So often I overthink and imagine something is going to be far worse than it turns out to be. I love the Friday catch up and hearing about everyone’s week. This is such a friendly linky. It’s like having everyone around the kitchen table! I struggle sometimes with a single word, although love the challenge. Phrases are good to fall back on. Thank you for hosting. You’re doing a sterling job too.
Thank you Cheryl, it is like a kitchen table gathering of sorts isn’t it. I didn’t go to my regular dentist, I was sent to a dental hospital for ‘awkward’ patients because of all the medication I take. It was rather nice though, they do botox and facelifts too 🙂
Thank you for accepting me into this wonderful community you have created here! I can always find interesting blog posts to read and I love interacting with the other bloggers.
You are very welcome laurie, your posts always give me food for thought x
Eek! It sounds like a good experience at the dentists. I hope you are not too sore now.
The new changes are fab! Like Louise said the changes feel natural and it does open it up to other people who might not have one specific word but do a weekly round up.
WoWers! How cute. Love it!
I’m still eating on one side of my mouth, but it’s not too sore. You are all my WoWers this week xx
I’m glad the dentist wasn’t too bad, it can get a little scary cant’ it? I like the idea of adding more to the linky, I’ve really enjoyed being a part of it x
And I’ve enjoyed having you join in Jo x
Glad your dentist appointment went smoothly.. my dentist keeps cancelling mine… I like the changes, as a couple of other folks said, it feels natural. I will try to keep up a little better than I have been!
So glad having a tooth out was not that bad I hate the dentist after a terrible experience as a child, my dentist is amazing but still I worry, and love the changes xx
Thank you for the reminder to join in this week – have done so just in the nick of time. Have had trouble adding your badge to the blogpost – but have added a link to your blog and an image of the badge so i hope that is ok.
Wishing you a speedy recovery from the tooth extraction!
Have a good week this week, xxx
Thank you for joining us Rebecca, and no worries about the badge xx
We had our 6 monthly check up at the dentist last week. My daughter is going to need braces and the dentist said she is going to need 4 teeth out before they fit her braces, she is not amused.
#MMBC
oh no, what a shame. I hope it all goes well for her xx