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What’s your BEST & WORST this week?

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139: It's all about (all) good and (all) bad by assbach

It’s that time of the week where I invite you to share your best and worst moments of the week. What were your absolute high and low points? I’m going to go first….

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Last week, when I ask you to share your best and worst, there were some amazing, hilarious, heart-breaking and fascinating Best/Worsts. An absolute slice of life.

I spent hours reading through them and was left feeling humbled, inspired, grateful and entertained.

This week, I’ve found myself thinking all week about what mine would be when I posted this today. It can be difficult and yet worthwhile narrowing the million things that happen into a Best and a Worst.

MY WORST: Finding my 3 year old daughter incredibly difficult. Angry, tantrums, obstinate. Despairing that we seemed to be going backwards just when I thought the Terrible Twos were behind us. And then suddenly realising that she’s struggling to adjust to her baby brother getting bigger and needing more attention and her older brother being busy and also demanding more focus of late. Not being able to articulate how she feels, she’s started acting out as a way to gain attention. I felt awful that she was unhappy and that I’d allowed her to slip through the classic middle-child attention gap. Have spent the rest of the week trying to remedy that with lots of one-on-one.

P1050080 MY BEST: The ducks are back. Every year for the past few, we’ve had a pair of ducks come visit. The first year it was just one day for a few hours and then it’s increased to longer stretches since then. After several weeks of daily visits, they were last seen in November last year after a particularly unfortunate incident during Coco’s birthday party when I turned around to discover a dozen toddlers feeding them cupcakes and vegemite sandwiches. And chocolate crackles. Must have made for some sore duck tummies. They finally returned this week and have been hanging around for long stretches each day. We feed them bread and rolled oats and they’ve become very much part of the family. Something about interacting with wild animals that’s very grounding.

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202 Responses to “What’s your BEST & WORST this week?”

  1. emmabovary says:

    Best: Realising how precious life is and how amazing my beautiful partner is. Also, feeling creative and writing/painting more than usual =)

    Worst: Attending said partner’s Nan’s funeral- she was such a beautiful woman, and I miss her so much already.

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  2. Gini says:

    Worst: being dumped my boyfriend of 6 months via a text message – when he was drunk – following a previous message of ‘I really really miss you’ sent 30mins before.

    Best: still waiting.. I guess the best moment has been realising that now I don’t have to waste any more time or emotion on someone so worthless…and gutless.

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