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Word of the Week 46 – Struggling

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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 ‘struggling’ and you can read more about that below.

I’m not totally strict on using just a word or phrase. But please try to stick to the theme of summing up your 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. 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

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MY WORD OF THE WEEK – Struggling

The word struggling on a brown and red paint affect background

This week my word of the week has been provided by my daughter Star. I asked her for the word of the week and she immediately replied ‘struggling.’ I can’t deny that she has a point.

The girls have not been to school this week, they haven’t been very well and they’ve been struggling to sleep. They are also finding school a struggle. Boo can’t cope with all the changes and Star is struggling because she is supposed to be doing her mock GCSEs but feels she hasn’t learned enough.

We have spent a lot of time doing lessons on Ed Place, keeping up with Maths, English and Science. But the girls are falling further behind and beginning to feel the struggle.

I hope that when they feel a little better they can get back to school and get some more work done.

It’s also been a struggle to get our food this week. I logged on to do my online shop last week and there was nothing available until Wednesday, I normally have a delivery on Monday. I really don’t know where my money goes because I seem to spend more and more on food and we seem to have less and less to eat. It really is a struggle to buy enough to fit our needs. I have my girls at home for lunch every day which works out more expensive and they never know what they want to eat. It was not too bad when it was just Star as she was happy with a sandwich, but Boo isn’t a fan of bread unless it’s home made.

I struggled to finish my last book that I was reading, although I enjoyed it in the end it wasn’t the easy read I was expecting. You can read my review on my other blog here. The Book of Two Ways by Jodie Picoult.

I have been struggling with a shawl pattern that I’m crocheting. It’s a cable affect and it took me three attempts to grasp the pattern, only to find I was missing a big chunk and had to frog (undo) it and start again. Then you turn the pattern around and work along the side. There were 128 rows but I was supposed to do a row of 199 stitches along the side. It’s not impossible, but I’m currently on my fourth attempt.

There are many other things I’ve struggled with this week, so I think Star chose well. I’m just hoping for a nice easy weekend now to relax and forget my struggles. I hope the girls can feel more relaxed too and hopefully we’ll be back to some sort of normality next week. Or should I say, back to the crazy routine I was struggling with last week!

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Word of the Week 42 – Struggle

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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 word this week is ‘struggle’ and you can read more about that below.

I’m not totally strict on using just a word or phrase. But please try to stick to the theme of summing up your 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. 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!

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MY WORD OF THE WEEK – Struggle

Photograph of a woman holding a white much with the words on the mug saying 'I Can't Even..' At bottom is a big white word saying 'struggle'

Last week I wrote about the help that we were all getting. This week has been a struggle. We are still battling on though, but I wish life could be simpler sometimes.

I took Star for some blood tests on Monday but it didn’t go well. The nurse couldn’t get any blood and Star nearly passed out. She tried so hard to be brave, but it just didn’t work out. So we were told she’d have to go to the hospital.

She also needed another test which went wrong too. I can’t say too much as it’s personal but it’s been a nightmare. Yes, I’m glad they are testing her, we’ve struggled for a long time and not been taken seriously because of her age. Now she’s older they can see that this is a real problem, not just a kid being awkward. No-one wants another diagnosis for their child, but there are so many things it could be that can be helped with simple medication. Which she can’t get unless she gets a diagnosis.

She can’t have her hospital blood tests done until October 27th, so now we are waiting again.

School Struggles

The Girl’s school has been amazing, but we’ve still found things a struggle. School refusal can be serious and it’s a known condition. I was worried that we may be having further issues from Boo when nothing the school did worked and she became more and more distressed. Shutting herself in her room, not eating properly, not interacting with the family and making herself ill.

The struggle has been uphill but I think we may have reached a peak and yesterday the school tried something new. It seemed to go well, so fingers tightly crossed.

Finally, we have news of the first COVID case in the Little Man’s School. Not in his year, but it’s all very worrying. Roll on the break next week, it’s been a very long term.

Health Struggles

I have definitely been feeling better since having the IVIG, but I still can’t help wishing that it would actually make me better. It’s hard to explain, and I guess any improvement is a good thing. But sometimes, I just wish none of this had happened. I long for my life back…even if I could just have it back for a few more years until my kids grew up.

I think at the moment I’d be happy with 10 years of being who I used to be and then die suddenly, than another 20 years of this (which would still make me younger than my Mum was when she died.) Is that selfish of me. Maybe, but I’d give anything to give my children the life they deserved.

Sometimes the struggles we have can seem overwhelming. But I know we’ll climb those mountains.

Now, does anyone have cure for COVID yet?

Over to you guys, what word or phrase sums up your week this week?

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Word of the Week 39 – Relief

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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 word this week is ‘relief’ and you can read more about that below.

I’m not totally strict on using just a word or phrase. But please try to stick to the theme of summing up your 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. 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 toMix 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 – Relief

relief, a picture of a rainbow in a blue sky and the word relief in white letters

On Saturday I got the news I’d been waiting for, My MRI was clear. Walter has left my brain and everything is going to be ok. It took a while but it was such a relief and great news.

Another relief is getting back into the school routine. Well, apart from Star. She has done one day so far. She went in for a meeting on Monday and they agreed to a gradual return to school, just a couple of hours a day and some work sent home. She agreed but then got sick again. In fact she has been really poorly and we had to call the GP yesterday. She now has medication and has had samples sent off for testing. I’m hoping the medication starts giving her some relief soon. Maybe we can get her back to school next week.

There is not many things to feel relieved about in this world at the moment so I’ll take all the little wins I can.

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

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Word of the Week 33 – Exciting

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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 word this week is ‘Exciting’ and you can read more about that below.

I’m not totally strict on using just a word or phrase. But please try to stick to the theme of summing up your 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. 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 MixPlease 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

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MY WORD OF THE WEEK – Exciting

This week has been rather exciting! I chose this image because it’s colourful, and it includes umbrellas, which may well be included in my exciting week.

image shows a ceiling made of colourful umbrellas with the word Exciting across the middle

We started the week off with The Little Man’s birthday, he has turned 10, so now I have no children in single figures anymore. No babies. He had a fantastic day playing with all his new toys and his excitement was caught by everyone.

On Monday, The Little Man wanted a friend around to play and I had a friend who wanted to visit too. Now, to be safe we decided to stay in the garden. The Little Man was super excited all day, and I was excited to see my friend who I last saw in February when we went to the ballet together.

Of course it was too hot so we ended up in the house for the last hour of the visit.

The Farm

On Tuesday we were really excited to have our visit to the farm. We had a session booked so that we would be the only ones there for a couple of hours. It was really exciting to be able to go out and know that we were going to be completely safe and not have to worry about social distancing.

I was worried the weather wouldn’t hold, but it was another lovely hot day. We had a picnic and fed the animals. The kids played in the play area which was really lovely, and we had a walk around the allotment. But it was too hot and in the end we were glad to get back to the air conditioning of the car.

In the evening we had thunder and lightening. I get excited about storms and I thought this would help clear the air and make it a cooler night. But the rain lasted all of two minutes and it was even hotter and stuffier afterwards.

The Real Deal

As we got hotter and hotter throughout the week, we decided to get the pool out on Wednesday. Everyone had a turn at cooling off in the pool. The girls didn’t get in but they did dip their toes in while sitting on the garden chairs. The kids had lots of fun and it was another exciting day.

The biggest excitement came in the evening though. We had a massive storm, thunder, lightning and lots of rain, cold refreshing rain. So much rain we even had some make its way through our patio doors, but there was no way were were going to close them. It still felt really hot though, another hot and sticky night.

Thankfully Thursday was much cooler, I don’t think I’ve ever been so pleased to see the sun have a break. I hope it’s not for good, it would be nice to have a few more hot days before the kids go back to school in September.

I’m not sure if I feel excited about the return to school. One day at a time.

Now it’s your turn, what word or phrase sums up your week this week?

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Word of the Week 28 – Sullen

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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 word this week is ‘Sullen’ and you can read more about that below.

I’m not totally strict on using just a word or phrase. But please try to stick to the theme of summing up your 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. 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!

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MY WORD OF THE WEEK – Sullen

photograph of a sullen looking statue with a grim look on her face and her elbows resting on her knees with her hands on her chin. She also holds a bunch of flowers.

Is it the weather? Has it just non stopped rained for what seems like forever? Where did the sunshine go? I think everyone in our house has taken on a sullen mood. See that statue in the photo above…yes, we all feel just like that.

Rain, rain go away!

Maybe if the sun came back out to play we would feel better? The girls have been moody and argumentative. No school work has been done all week. They’ve been refusing to shower or go to bed at a reasonable time.

The eldest two have also been moody, stomping about and spending more time in their bedrooms than anywhere else. Coming out only to eat and complain about my cooking.

Graham hasn’t been too bad, he was grumpy that the Little Man was taking over his PS4 at the beginning of the week, but now he has it back so he’s okay. The Little Man is happy so long as he can play Roblox or Minecraft. He has been doing school work under protest, and even had a haircut off his Dad.

I Want my Happy Family Back!

Last week we were having fun together and enjoying each other’s company. But even I’ve been intolerable it seems, everyone is avoiding me anyway. Please come back sunshine, and bring some light back to my family.

I hope your week has been better, please cheer me up!

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