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

This week my Word of the Week is:

Happy Saturday and I hope you have all had a good week. I have had a great one with lots of family time. We had an early birthday celebration for Stu on Saturday and I have a blog post all about it next week as we saw and did lots of out of the ordinary things. He had a great birthday and this week also saw more rain this week than we've had in months. I'm not complaining, it's a good thing!

Holidays have definitely been a big theme in our house this week. Becky took two days holiday from work and ended up having a whole week off. It was just the way her shifts worked, and it means she is onto her third weekend on the trot off too. Not bad at all! She has been back to work this week and then I think she has about three shifts in before having another two weeks off for more annual leave. She always takes a chunk of time off around Ellie's and her birthday. Stu also took last Friday off and ended up with a four-day weekend. He has all of next week off too, which was originally the time he had planned to decorate the bathroom but he started and finished earlier than he planned. It wasn't the big job he thought it was going to be and everything going to plan helped. He did have to go into town on Monday to get some more filler but he ended up finishing it off that afternoon. So now he has a week off with no bathroom to decorate. I am sure he will find something to do and if he doesn't, I will. hehehe

Thursday was GCSE results day and despite Ellie leaving school a few years ago, she was still waiting for her English result. Unfortunately, she still didn't get the grade 4, which is the standard pass or what would have been an old C. I am not trying to make excuses for her because she needs the qualification and she knows that too but I do feel that she didn't always get the support she needed with English lessons at college. I made my thoughts known several times, including one rather awkward phone conversation with a member of the wellbeing staff. I didn't realise the English teacher was actually standing next to her when I was talking about the English lessons. He had no comeback. Ellie isn't letting the result get her down. She has already signed herself up for an English course and should have an English qualification, equivalent to the GCSE by the end of the year.

When the girls were little, the summer holidays were a huge thing. Six weeks felt like forever and there were days out, fun activities and trying to keep them busy on rainy days. Now they are living their own lives as adults and the summer holidays mean nothing now, since Ellie has left college. In past years by now, I was usually stressing about getting everything sorted, like uniforms, bus passes, new shoes and everything like that. Now there's nothing and after almost 20 years of following the school holidays it feels strange. The good thing that has come from it is the extra money in my bank account. This would have been the week I would pay for the college bus pass. lol

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!