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. My phrase this week is Sunshine and Rainbows and you can read more about that below.
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MY WORD OF THE WEEK – Sunshine and Rainbows
Here’s the rainbow, you may have already seen it on my Sunday Photo, but I’m thinking of making another today.
Hasn’t the weather been lovely, quite typical when we are in a lockdown that the sun should shine. I’m not complaining though, at least we have a garden. I sat out in the garden on Wednesday for an hour doing my crochet and listening to my e-book while soaking up the sunshine. It was so warm.
I’m writing this on Thursday and we are currently preparing to have a BBQ for dinner seeing as it’s such a lovely day. We’ll be eating al fresco. I ordered some stuff in the shopping delivery and we ended up with a few substitutions…. most things were substituted for burgers and sausages, we now have 60 sausages and 48 beef burgers…I know we are a big family but that’s a bit much. We also have some chicken drumsticks, salad and corn on the cob.
Home School
We are still plodding on with schooling at home. The kids are not over keen but I’ve found keeping to a routine has helped.
My kids are not the type to be wanting to be playing out in the sunshine, and it’s hard work to get them out there. I hear the neighbours kids outside all the time, but my three would rather spend their ‘non-screen’ time with their noses stuck in a book. (Apart from the little man.)
We’ve been playing some games and I spent some time playing Mancala with Boo the other day. I haven’t played for a while but it’s one of those simple games that are fun and easy. I’ve had my set over 16 years now!
We also love our Gamely Games, like The Pretender and Jibbergiggle. If you go to the Gamely Games Facebook page you can nominate someone with a lockdown birthday to receive a free game! They also went around their neighbourhood delivering free games to people who had a rainbow in their window. How lovely is that!
Sometimes, it’s okay to forget about lessons and play games instead isn’t it? Especially if it makes you smile. Sunshine and rainbows are what have made me smile this week.
Star decided she wanted to make a fruit salad. She did well, just look at this rainbow of deliciousness.
Now it’s over to you, what word or phrase sums up your week?
Beautiful rainbow! Just what we need now. Our weather has been terrible! It is either cold and windy or rainy. I am looking forward to some sunshine and rainbows here. Or at least sunshine! The mental picture I have of you sitting in your garden in the warm sun crocheting is wonderful! That fruit salad looks delicious and there are worse things for kids to be doing than reading! 🙂 Have a good weekend.
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I appreciate the weather, even if it’s just to get the kids in the garden.
That rainbow is very cute.
The sunshine has been lovely hasn’t it. I have had time sat in the garden too. I hope you got to have your BBQ.
Well done Star with the fruit salad, it looks delicious. My two had fruit salad last night but it ended up being mostly squirty cream. lol
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The BBQ was lovely thanks. So was the fruit salad, my kids are weird, they don’t eat cream!
MMMM Fruit salad!!!! I love Mancala and totally forgot about it until reading your post. Guess who will be digging through her closets looking for it this weekend. LOL…
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I hope you find your mancala, if not you can always make one out of egg boxes and marbles 🙂
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I’ve struggled to get my three out too. This week has been better as they’ve helped me in the garden and played badminton in the evening. Playing games and reading books is good though. I love the idea of the delivering games to children on their birthday. Your crochet rainbow is so sweet. I imagine it was lovely to sit out in the sun and make it. Hope you enjoyed your bbq.
Thank you, the BBQ was really nice but I ate far too much. 🙂
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I love your crocheted rainbow – it’s so pretty. Glad you have been able to enjoy the sunshine in the garden. That’s a lot of sausages and burgers in your shopping! Hope you enjoyed your BBQ = it is so nice to be able to eat outside. Love Star’s fruit salad too. Hope you are having a nice weekend and thank you for hosting #WotW
Thank you Louise, I hope you are having a nice weekend too. The fruit salad was a big hit, we may have to make another this coming week.
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Love your rainbow 🙂 the weather is lovely isn’t it, I’ve been in our garden too, it’s nice to get outside. My two don’t agree… I haven’t made fruit salad in years.. hmmm maybe I should!