Best & Worst of the Week

This post may have been going forever but Best and Worst together with Open Post are my favourite posts every week on Mamamia. I think it’s because we get a little glimpse into the lives of the Mamamia community and get to share our ups and downs (and some of the greatest advice I’ve ever received has come from MM readers over the past few years). Sometimes it’s the advice you get from your ‘anonymous’ online friends that helps the most.

So  shut-up Bec and get on with it. Here’s my best and worst of the week ..

Best: I hate parties. Loathe them (if I could put the word ‘loathe’ in 72 point type and bold and underline it, I would).  I’m a small groups person and I find big parties excruciating because of the small-talk factor.  But last weekend was my husband Brad’s 40th birthday and it was wonderful.  Catching up with old friends from Brisbane (who flew down for the weekend) was like balm to my soul. It was just so good to see them.  And, most importantly, Brad had a ball.  One of the guests was my newly acquired friend Amity (Dry) who’s an Adelaide girl and been an absolute blessing for me since I moved to the City of Churches.

Worst: No real worsts this week. I’ve just been really, really tired and had a bit of insomnia. On Wednesday night I was awake from 2am-5am. So naturally I went online shopping and bought my toddler this gorgeous plastic toy kitchen with lights and sounds and I TOTALLY want to play with it. (Plus I’m hoping at least one person in our family will grow up knowing how to cook …). How do you deal with insomnia?

Over to you … what have been your highlights and lowlights of the week?