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Word of the Week – Stress

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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 stress and you can read more about that below.

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MY WORD OF THE WEEK – Stress

a white piece of paper with the word stress written on it in red pencil.

How’s your week been? Did you know it was mental health awareness week this week? I used to keep track of awareness weeks and promote them when I could. At the moment it’s hard enough keeping track of what day of the week it is.

Our household is not your typical household. We have four adults and three children living here. That’s seven people! But, if I’m honest, this lock down seems to be working out okay. Different sleeping patterns mean that we are not all under each others feet all the time. The younger kids get to do what they want when the older kids are not around and vice versa. At first I stressed that it wasn’t healthy, but it’s working so I’m not thinking of it as broken and I don’t want to fix it anymore. Basically, the last couple of weeks have been quite peaceful.

So why the stress?

I guess I’m feeling bored and just want to escape this house. But I can’t. Not only am I most at risk, I can’t go alone and no-one else seems willing to help me. I found somewhere nearby we could go which could be fairly quiet, but no-one else seems to want to do anything other than sit on their screens, or play their games, or get off their backsides. Yes, my family have turned into lazy slobs! The Little Man is the only one who gets any exercise in the garden and that’s not for very long. It’s not much fun playing on your own.

I’m also feeling the stress of school. The kids have done pretty well keeping up with their work. We’ve had a mixture of good and bad days/weeks which is to be expected. But, I feel the stress of making sure they are doing some work at least. Star is year 10 and can go back to school in June. But, although she wants to, the risk is high with vulnerable people at home. Also, she wants to go back on her terms, she wants to know exactly what hours she will be doing and where she will be taught. And none of that information is not forthcoming despite my asking. I guess the school don’t know themselves. But Star can’t cope with not knowing and we have just one day to decide if she is going in or not.

Maybe next week will be less stressful being half term?

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

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Word of the Week – Emotions

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This week has been all about emotions.

At the beginning of the week my little girl showed her first signs of becoming a young lady. I don’t think I’m ready yet, is it really time for her to start growing up. We had a lot of emotion, in particular as she didn’t deal with it very well. I’m still in touch with a lot of mum’s that had daughter’s at the same time and their girls seemed to have coped much better. I don’t want to go into much detail on my blog but menstruation is not welcome here.

Then my second little Roborovski Hamster died. I went to feed him and he didn’t rush out to greet me like he usually does, so I checked inside his little house and he was curled up in a little ball, totally unresponsive. I was so sad, he always made me smile he was such a cutie, now both my babies are gone.

We’ve had some emotional stress from Boo who is sitting her SATs mock exams and coming home with tons of homework every day which she is struggling to finish in time. She’s been really worked up and my lovely little gentle natured girl has become very irritable.

On Tuesday I had some good emotions from going to see Cinderella, a ballet by Matthew Bourne. It was a very different adaptation of the old fairy tale, set in WWII during the London Blitz. It stirred up so many emotions but the one I was left with was excitement from such a thrilling performance.

On Wednesday I had to take the Little Man for an appointment for another problem that I wish we didn’t have. Sometimes I wonder why we have to go through so much as a family and the emotional stress I feel is just too much to bare. At the time of the appointment I was dealing with the stress of another family member as well as the Little Man and straight after I was due for another appointment with Star. It all became a bit too much for me and I ended up sobbing in front of the nurse. That’s not an emotion that I let take over too often but sometimes it just can’t be held back any more.

Today we have an appointment to say goodbye to our seven year old cat Salem. He’s been sick for a couple of months and we knew he wouldn’t get better, but we didn’t want to let him go until his quality of life was compromised. That time has come, we would be cruel to let him get to a stage of suffering. This is an emotion I really don’t want to be feeling. It’s going to be a sad weekend.

So, I’ve had a week of emotions, most of them bad but at least I had something very good in the middle.

How has your week been?

The Reading Residence

 

Word of the Week – Bad

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I can bet there is not one person in this country that has not been disturbed and saddened by the terrorist attack in Manchester this week. It’s been a very sad week and it’s hard to focus on other things, especially when the media will have the events pushed down our throats at every opportunity. My only hope is that something good will come of this, the country is on alert and the scum being dragged out of hiding. We need to find them and deal with them properly, make an example of them, let them know that we won’t be terrorised by them, we will find them and we will stop them. Then we need to find ways of stopping them from getting into our country. If someone comes under the radar and then leaves the country for places like Libya or Syria then they should be stopped from coming back here, the intention seems obvious to me. Then we have to find a way that will lead to peace in our land. I’m not with the let’s retaliate by bombing them and see how they like it tribe. It’s been proven that it just doesn’t work. We have to look closely at what caused the unrest and why they are targeting us and stop it. I believe it can be done. I believe that we have been doing it wrong.

Back to my week. I have been having problems with Star again. I sent her to school on Monday even though she protested she wasn’t well. Then she was sent home again after being sick. So I kept her home for two days sent her back when I believed she was well and she was sent home after being sick again. I do believe she has had some sort of sickness bug because I caught it too. This is the first time I’ve been sick since my illness and it was awful. Imagine not being able to bend over the toilet properly (ok maybe that’s too much information) but not only that, every time I was sick my stomach muscles contracted and stayed contracted for ages afterwards in spasm which was really painful. I’ve had a couple of early nights this week feeling very very sorry for myself.

The weather has been bad too.. Ok,  the weather has been hot and sunny but it’s bad for me. I can’t cope with the heat and have found it difficult to keep cool, apart from my feet which I’m sure are dead as they are constantly like blocks of ice no matter how hot it is. I’ve had a burning sensation not experienced before all along my spine and down my legs. It’s like I’m constantly on fire, apart from my feet. The sun has also brought out the neighbours, my peaceful days are interrupted by loud music from all directions interrupted only by several lawnmowers.  I can’t escape, even with the doors and windows shut, which causes me to cook slowly.

From today things are going to change, things are going to be good.
Today I am going to buy my new power chair with the money I’ve collected from some fantastic donations. I’m so excited, I will have some freedom to escape.

And escape is the next thing on my mind because on Monday we are off on a short break to the sea side. I have been worried about it but with my new power chair it should be a fantastic break. I won’t feel like a burden, I will be able to get around by  myself. We will have the chance to chill and relax and the kids will have fun. I can’t wait to gulp in some sea air. The sun won’t bother me at all!

So this week has been bad, but next week is going to be so, so  much better.

The Reading Residence