Us usual I am linking up with the lovely Jocelyn from The Reading Residence to share my Word of the Week #WotW.
This week my word is
A couple of annoying things have taken too much of my time this week. I won’t bore you with the details, I will just say Asda and Vodafone grrrr. Both necessitated making daily calls to get issues resolved. Quite frustrating and using up time, I feel I am already lacking in.
All week I have felt that I haven’t enough time to achieve all that I want to, which left me with a constant ‘chasing my tail’ feeling. As usual I have been blogging from Baby’s bedtime, until I fall asleep on the couch. However, I have been falling asleep earlier, which is very frustrating!
On Thursday Baby and I left for a trip to London to a Bloggers event. All was going surprising well. Baby had the car keys and I strapped her into her car seat, I took the keys off her and chucked them on the front seat. Shut the doors walked round and opened the drivers door…. Only I didn’t open the door, as unbeknown to me she had locked the central locking. Needless to say, the car keys also had my house keys attached to them, so no chance of popping in for a spare. I put in an SOS call to Mr Hubby at work and the breakdown people, then waited for the cavalry. This was the only occasion all week that time went slowly. As I stood there and Baby became increasingly distress, it dragged. I became more and more tempted to break the window, but didn’t want to scare her even more. It was really awful to be so close to your crying baby and not be able to take them in your arms.
Then all of a sudden, it was as if time sped up again. The breakdown man arrived (driving over the pavement to get to my car quickly) and started trying to break in. Mr Hubby got back from work and went to try to find the spare. Just as the mechanic was trying to turn over the key with a long wire, Mr Hubby came out with the spare and Baby’s ordeal was over. When Baby had experienced a little mummy daddy cuddle time, Baby and I set off for London for a day of rushing to catch trains and cars on time!
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Oh how traumatic for you all – hopefully that time wasn’t as long as it felt x
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The breakdown man was really quick, I think in reality it was about 30 minutes waiting x
I had the same happen to me bab! And the little stick thing they use is so so so weird isn’t it? I was baffled. It is really stressful with a little one as well. Glad it got sorted x
I know what you mean about time, there is never enough of it. I’m sorry to hear about yours and Baby’s ordeal. I’m glad to hear that it got sorted quickly though. x
That sounds like a massively traumatic event for both of you, glad it ended well though and you had a fab day out. Have a super weekend xx
Oh gosh that sounds so traumatic, I am glad it all ended well x
Ah yes… time. Could I get some more of it please? Preferably the sort of time that I get uninterrupted sleep? Thanks!
What a nightmare for you both. Glad it ended OK and you managed to catch up on your day. Oh yes, to have more time! Thanks for sharing with #WotW x
eeep! that must have been horrible for both of you 🙁
Time went really weird for me this week. My husband has had eye surgery and is dependent on me – so I am completely confined to barracks. Each day is about 5 times longer than usual!
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Oh I hope he is on the mend soon and you can get out and about x
Chasing my tail is definitely the sentiment of the week, but ironically I have been lazy in protest as my way of dealing with it. The overwhelming size of the to-do list has had me dawdling in protest 🙁
So sorry to hear of baby’s distress – in that situation I would have been frantic. At times like this I am so glad I don’t drive. Sorry you and she went through it though, not nice.
Liska x
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Oh thanks hun x
Luckily the dawdling stopped and I cleaned like a dervish today, which I know was due to (1) the sun showing up the dust but more so (2) it was Autumn Equinox and it always has SOME sort of effect on me. It was very pronounced today though x
Oh goodness, doesn’t sound like a great week at all! I hope next week is less stressful for you x
Oh wow what a week, aww bless.. it must have been awful for you panicking with baby locked in the car 🙁 hoping you have a great week ahead :):)
Thanks for linking up #weekendbloghop
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It wasn’t our finest hour! Thanks hun and you x
How awful for you and baby. It must have seemed forever before you could get her out of the car.
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It did feel like a long time! x
Phew! So glad you got Baby out of the car. What a nightmare
Oh goodness, that must have been so stressful! I have a real paranoia about something like that happening! Glad you were still able to get on with you day x #WotW
Someone had a hell of a week! It’s not a nice feeling when you are so busy that time passes in the blink of an eye!
I glad to see that Baby wasn’t overly affected by her ordeal. Many years ago, we lived in a 1st floor apartment and I went out the front door to put the rubbish out and the wind blew the door shut behind me, locking my two year old son inside. It was a horrible, horrible feeling. Luckily the lad next door was able to climb from his balcony to ours and get in to let me in…Needless to say the key was always left on the outside of the door after that!
One day I would love to get to a blogging event. I hope you got there in the end!
I found your post on #WotW.
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I did thank you hun x
The word that best sums up my week last week is ‘hospital’. Too many family members, including my husband, have been admitted due to ill-health. I’m really hoping this week holds better things! I totally agree with you about time: there is never enough hours in the day.
How awful. I hope you have a better week ahead xx
Oh what a nightmare – I won’t give Sebby the keys for that very reason. Hope she is ok now
my word would be ‘overwhelmed’ at just how wonderful the blogging community is! That experience sounds awful though poor you! xx
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Well done again hun xx
Glad that hubby rescued Baby, I did similar once in Sainsburys at Theale!
I would have to agree with you on Time! Although Ross and I have started to put a far better schedule in place to make use of our time…and it seems to be working! Yay! Thank you for linking to PoCoLo 🙂 x