Challenge – #R2BC #WOTW

One word to sum up our week has been easy-peesy lemon-squeezy this week.
  
Normally I’ll “umm” and “aaah”, considering the roller coaster of emotions that hit every week as our children navigate their way through, in fact every week could be described as a “challenge” for them.

 This week it especially applies and mostly in a good way (the R2BC bit) and here’s why:

1.  Football

Ha! You may be thinking and ha! again.  Is J okay?  It’s no secret that the “beautiful game” is very much part of our household, always has been, always will be.

What I didn’t expect though, was to volunteer my admin-y services to the local team and actually be enjoying it as much as I am.

Last weekend was mega busy, with something on both days, Sunday was an all-day promotional event and it was a long day but good fun.

This time last year or even six months ago, if you had said “yes J, you’ll be doing this and talking football with Hubbie tons”, I’d have laughed!   I’m no “look at me with jazz hands”, which is fine by me so I was pleased that I put myself out there – so to speak.

2.  Cricket with a gemstone twist

D does not look forward to PE at school at the moment, it’s either cricket or football and she gets very nervous about both the contact element of the game and that it’s very fast-paced.

After this week’s lessons though, she greeted me with smiles at the end of the day.  Why? They’d played “diamond cricket” and, as she told me, she does like all things connected with gemstones.  The fact that it was named after one made her enjoy it more than she thought, which is great.

She’s also been very brave this week, coping with an achy ear and suddenly feeling much happier once it “popped” – thank goodness as she’s not great with unexpected aches.

3.  When an interview isn’t

I headed off to what I thought would be an interview for a seasonal job this week, having taken the psychological online scenarios tests first.   I’d hoped there would be face to face interviews but it turned out to be a group assessment and then an individual written assessment, no interview scenarios at all.

Normally I’d have tied myself up in internal knots but not this time.   How did I do? No idea.  I don’t know if I contributed enough in the group scenario.  Time will tell.  It was a challenge but not necessarily one I’d expected.

4.  Beat the weather!

There always comes a time of year when Hubbie’s busy work diary is overflowing. We’ve reached that time.  A dismal and wet August and part of September meant that his outside work has been delayed and this is impacting on inside work booked in.  Juggle time and hopefully everyone will be happy and bear with him.

5.  Second will do

I usually join in with a workweek hustle on Fitbit, it’s good fun and motivational.

Last week (in the run up to a busy weekend) I felt too stressed to join in and knew I wouldn’t have time to cheer others on, so I didn’t join in.

This week I’m aiming for second, next week who knows?

Challenges when you stretch yourself can be beneficial, it’s certainly been the case this week, how’s yours been?

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