This week my Word of the Week is: Treats!! #WotW

This week my Word of the Week is:

I could have used the word disrupted again this week. On Saturday Stu's bus broke down and he had to wait for another and mid-week, the bus was diverted because of a crash. There is a road near us which is terrible in normal weather but on Wednesday we'd had hail for most of the afternoon, so I am guessing the road was extra slippy. Eek! Thankfully, no one was hurt, which was really lucky as a car had overturned. The weather has been rotten this week, well rotten for what you expect in May. It has been cold, rained and on Wednesday and Thursday we had plenty of hailstones. Eesh!

Anyway, onto this week's Word of the Week. I have gone with treats as we seem to have had a week of them. It all started when Stu and I went into town. Can you believe the last time we were out shopping together was in February! We went to the retail park and had a good mooch around.

First up was Tesco to pick up a few bits for tea. I finally saw the Matilda and Friends cakes and was quite shocked by the price! £16 for essentially 3 slices of cake. I know it says it serves 10 but Stu and I stood there looking so confused. I thought I had hit the jackpot when I went round into the next aisle and saw the same cakes on the reduced shelf. Before I picked them up, I said I would get them if they were under £10. Nope, they were reduced to £14 something which is still way too much to pay for cakes!! I did end up getting a Key Lime Pie which was all mine as no one else in the house likes it! hehehe

Becky had been talking about decluttering her room and I said to her that she needed to use the Marie Kondo method, where you only keep items which spark joy. Well, I was going to do that when it came to shopping, sort of. If something brought me joy, I was going to buy it as it had been a while since I treated myself and that is what I did. I saw these gorgeous mugs in TK Maxx and had to get them.

I love a glass mug and these are so pretty. I didn't just stick to treating myself. I bought the girls a sweet treat from M&S each. A blueberry muffin for Ellie, a pistachio doughnut for Becky and I stocked up on the bird food for the birdies outside. I also bought a little birdhouse from B&M which Stu needs to put up somewhere over the weekend.

On Tuesday Becky was off work and it was our treat day! We have been getting Costa delivered for lunch once a fortnight but as I had it the day before, I didn't really fancy it and neither did Becky, so we ordered from Greggs. Becky couldn't believe that I ordered myself a salad but it was one of the new prawn layered pasta ones. It looks amazing online but it isn't anything special, it is just like what you get from a supermarket with maybe a little more Marie Rose sauce. I got the Mango & Strawberry Cooler to drink and that was good. I can just imagine drinking it on a hot summers day! We also had to get one of the chicken sausage rolls to try. They're nice but not as good as the original.

I was sick of being cold by Thursday afternoon, so as a treat for Ellie and I, I decided to put the heating on. It feels so indulgent putting it on at this time of year, it's supposed to be warm. Hmmf. It wasn't on for long, just enough for us to get that cosy feeling. Stu came in from work and could tell we'd had the heating on and was grateful for it.

I am writing this just before I went to my dad's yesterday and he says he has a surprise for lunch. I think he has either found our favourite pizza from Iceland that has been out of stock for a few weeks, the ham and pineapple one, or he has perfected the scone recipe that he has been trying to recreate. I mentioned it in my Wednesday Hodgepodge post that he is trying to make scones as good as my great Aunty Jean's. I am sure whatever he has planned will be a treat!

How has your week been? I hope you have had a good one! I am of course linking up with Anne who blogs at Raisie Bay to join in with her Word of the Week linky!