This week’s Word Of The Week and #R2BC

Friday is just around the corner, thankfully, both T and D are back at school and their tiredness is very evident.  When I collected D from after school sports club today, she’d had a good time (as she told me afterwards) but was absolutely furious that she was tired and it was all my fault for letting her attend!

Scenarios like the above made me chuckle inwardly afterwards, especially when her huff, strop and bolt (oh yes, we had a bolt too) are out of her system, but at the time it’s quite frustrating that she’ll focus on just one aspect.

Anyway, up until about 1pm today, my word to sum up this week was going to be:

  
Because I have been, very.

With the children back at school, I headed off to the dentist on Monday for the next step of my “new smiley me” process.  I’d read up about it, so knew that this would be tougher than the first bit and boy, has it been!

Swollen jaw, extremely painful and I’ve averaged maybe 3 hours sleep a night since then as I’ve been just too sore to get comfortable.  It’s resulted in a very tired me and there have been a few times when I’ve cried – but out of T and D’s sight and sound as their lack of empathy would upset me more.

But it’s worth it.  Shall we move onto some Cheerful reasons?

1.  I’m hoping for sleep tonight (please) and this may help.

  
It’s a micro-bead travel cushion but I’m going to wear it the wrong way around so it supports my jaw.  My lovely Hubbie interrupted his work day so that we could go and find one.  It does look a bit silly but if it means sleep then I’m game!

2.  I had decades of not wanting my picture taken, not wanting to smile, a few weeks of discomfort is going to make such a difference.

I was lying on the trampoline earlier this week and took this, no filter, no adjusting, this is me, a (sore but) happier J:

  
Anyone who read my previous post will remember that this is pretty mega for me and smiling is contagious too.

3.  It’s been sunny, lovely weather and I’ve reached my steps targets and beyond, music in the ear worms and that took my mind off the achy bits.

4.  And it’s nearly the weekend, yay! Nearly time for T to play his football, he enjoys it so much and really plays as a team member, Hubbie will get his footie fix too and D and I will have some happy, cuddly girlie time.  

Maybe a better word for this week would be:

Because I’m glad I swept aside my terror of dentists and the like and did it.  

And my jaw is not so sore, thanks to some hefty (much cheaper than nurofen) painkillers, sleep time here we come – fingers crossed!

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