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Word of the Week #19 2019

May 10, 2019 by Anne Sweet 18 Comments

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

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And now it’s over to you, come and tell us what you’ve been up to in the past week.

Word of the Week #17 2019

April 26, 2019 by Anne Sweet 6 Comments

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. You reflect back on the past week and sum it up in one word. Then share your word with us in a blog post, with as little or as much explanation as you like.

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 (formerly Stumble.) 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

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

Garden

The kids are still off school until Monday and I so wanted to do something nice with them this week. Maybe visit a National Trust Property, or the Wildlife Centre or even just the park. But, I’ve not been well and now the weather has changed and become dismal.

The thing is though, the kids are happy staying at home. Getting them to go out anywhere is a bit of a nightmare sometimes. So, it’s my own guilt trip I’m feeding. I think if I asked the kids they would probably say they’ve had a great holiday.

Last week we’d managed to get a few things done and one of those was the garden. (Ok, I didn’t do any work, but that’s not because I didn’t want to.) Graham cut the grass and tidied up the side of the house, which is now looking good for some planting. I’m thinking veggies and herbs rather than flowers. We have a couple of trees planted at the top of the garden, not big ones, but they should look nice once they’ve grown a bit more. And my potted plants are starting to show signs of life. We also have some new plants out the front.

The sunny days have been spent in the garden. The kids dug out their Nerf guns and had a full on war with the neighbour’s kids. They had so much fun. Despite them not actually having any Nerf bullets left. Then the neighbours kids came over and played on our swings, slide and trampoline. It makes me feel kind of sad because the Little Man is the only child of mine that is the right size for the slide and swings, the girls have outgrown it, and the Little Man will too, very soon. Next year this part of the garden will be looking much barer. We will still keep the trampoline though.

Al Fresco

On Monday, Graham fired up the BBQ for the first time and we ate outdoors. It was nice despite us not having a garden table. (I have one on order, the last one was glass and broke in a storm.) We made do with the pasting table and a disposable table cloth (which happened to be a Christmas one!)

I ordered food in the shopping which was delivered on Monday and they replaced the steaks with a leg of lamb!! They also replaced the burger baps with finger rolls, so we ended up with 48 finger rolls and no baps. Sometimes you just have to make do though, and we did. But, we haven’t eaten the lamb yet. (It cost £12 more than the steaks, it’s a good job Sainsbury’s give you the extra cost back when they substitute.)

The weather changed midweek so there has been no more garden fun, but the plants are looking healthy.

My next job is to dig out the kid’s gardening book and see what we can plant or do in our new bit of garden at the side of the house.

Now it’s over to you. What word or phrase sums up your week?

Raisie Bay

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Word of the Week #16 2019

April 19, 2019 by Anne Sweet 10 Comments

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 (formerly Stumble.) 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

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

I wasn’t well the weekend which sort of put me out of sorts for a while. It’s hard keeping track of time when the kids are not at school, and when you lose a weekend because of illness it makes it even worse. Which is why I was convinced that Monday was actually Saturday!

I managed to get out of the house on Monday by driving to see my brother. I actually drove the car for the first time in six months. On Tuesday we had to go to the hospital with Star for her results from the geneticist. I’m still trying to process that news.

Wednesday we went shopping for Easter eggs and a few other bits from Morrisons. It was like a game of hunt the Easter Bunny as Boo and Eldest daughter kept running off around the huge store buying stuff.

But Thursday was the highlight of the week as Boo and the Little Man finally had their hair cut. Boo had been counting the days and was so excited. The Little Man not so excited but willing to go along so that was good as his hair was so long we were getting to the stage of tying it up in a pony tail. Star refused to have her hair cut but that was no surprise. I decided to go for the chop myself as my hair was getting way too long.

So, the photo above is the before shot, and now I guess you want to see the results?

Boo actually had about four inches chopped off which means her hair will be much easier to wash and brush. Two things she hates doing, so if it will help then it’s all good.

The Little Man had loads chopped off. He doesn’t look too happy but that’s because he didn’t want his photo taken, he was happy with his hair. He refused to have the sides shaved, he hates the vibration on his head. But at least it’s short and manageable again. His fringe looks a little crazy here but it’s nice when it’s combed. I couldn’t help remembering his first haircut and how blonde he used to be.

I’m not ready to show off my hair yet, it might be shorter but I’ve not had it coloured yet and well, my roots need a lot of attention!

Now it’s over to you, what word or phrase sums up your week?

Raisie Bay

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Word of the Week #15 2019

April 12, 2019 by Anne Sweet 11 Comments

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 (formerly Stumble.) 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

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

Emotional

On Monday it was time for my six monthly visit with my consultant. It turned out to be quite emotional because not only is he not letting me have any other treatment he’s considering taking away the treatment that I have. Purely because it’s not giving me better results and despite that it’s the only treatment that gives me any relief at all. It feels like he’s taken away any hope that I ever had.

There have also been many things to feel emotional about this week and if I wrote about them all in detail then this post would probably go on for ever. So, I’ll keep it brief.

The Little Man has had a much better week at school thanks to his Touchpoints. I felt so emotional when he came home and told me he’d been making friends. Also, he’s just about made it to the end of term activities that are only available to the well behaved children.

Boo came home from school and told me that she got 100% in her R.E, test. This is a great achievement for her and she was so happy and I was so proud.

My Ex Husband is in the Country which is always emotional for our children. But he’s here to spend some time with his sister who is in the later stages of cancer. It’s a very sad and difficult time.

Today I have a big decision to think about which is making me feel emotional. Do I continue to drive? We are looking at cars and there are two which we can afford, but one of them, the one we really wanted, we would not be able to adapt so I can drive it. So, do we get the car we want and I stop driving, or do we get the other car, which we are not so keen on?

I could probably write an entire blog post on each of these things! Well, I already have about the Little Man and his Touchpoints. I will probably write about the hospital visit and the car decision in more detail too.

So now it’s over to you, what word or phrase sums up your week?

Raisie Bay

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Word of the Week #14 2019

April 5, 2019 by Anne Sweet 11 Comments

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 (formerly Stumble.) 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

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

I’ve kept to my promise that I made to myself about getting out of the house more. I’ve been out three times again this week.

Monday, I was in hospital having my IVIG treatment. I’m there for about three and a half hours, sometimes it goes quickly, sometimes not so. This week I was without an audio book so it went a little slower.

Tuesday, we had to go to the Little Man’s school to speak with the Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) teacher. It is believed that the Little Man does have some kind of autism and is now on the SEND register and we are waiting for his final diagnosis. It wasn’t really a surprise, but it still brings up all sorts of feelings that are difficult to deal with. (I didn’t sleep very well on Tuesday night.) The Little Man, however, is quite happy.

Wednesday, I went out shopping. It was kind of a spur of the minute thing but I had promised to fetch a game for my eldest son and because my daughter ordered it they had refused to give it to Graham. I went along pretending to be my daughter. We also popped into Iceland for a bit of food shopping.

The rest of the week I’ve spent trying to sort out my blog. I’ve still a way to go to get it how I want but this theme allows for a lot of editing so I should be able to tweak it lots.

So, although there has been a lot of things going on this week, I am choosing the word Autism as my Word of the Week. It seems kind of strange that we found out for sure about the Little Man’s Autism on World Autism Day. It is also Autism Awareness Week (or month) and yesterday I published a post about what Autism means for our family.

So Now it’s over to you, what word or phrase sums up your week?

Raisie Bay

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