What were the best and worst bits of your week?

By NICKY CHAMP

Welcome to Best and Worst; Mamamia’s long-standing tradition. If this is the first time you’ve ever stumbled across this post, it’s where we share the highs and lows of the week that was. Think of it as one big sounding board for advice, problems, a place to share your good news and to talk about whatever is on your mind.

I’ll go first.

Best: I dread Monday mornings (stay with me) – you see the thing about working with incredible people is often they do incredible things on the weekend. Me? Not so much.

Life with a toddler pretty much dictates that my weekends are spent hanging out at parks, cleaning food off walls and trying to decipher an unintelligible language (it’s not unlike hanging out with a drunk teenager).

Don’t get me wrong, I love my life but when Monday morning rolls around I dread the inevitable question: So, what did you get up to on the weekend?

“Um, I went to the park for a bit” doesn’t really cut it when people are trying extreme sports or going to the latest bars.

It could be the FOMO or the YOLO getting to me, but this week I actually did something fun. Something worthy of ‘smoasting’ (boasting on social media) about. Yay, go me.

On Sunday I ran the Happiest 5km on the Planet – granted it was 35 degrees and I thought I might pass out from heatstroke, but it turns out having packets of colour powder thrown at you while you run/jog/walk is fun in any type of weather. The Color Run event is coming back to Sydney in August (and travels around the country in the meantime) and I can’t wait to do it again (in hopefully cooler weather next time).

Worst: We’ve just discovered our 17-month-old toddler has an egg allergy – a potentially anaphylactic one.  Since every second Australian child* apparently has an allergy, we can’t get in to see the Paediatric Immunologist to do the required testing until July.

For those of you playing along at home that is in SIX MONTHS TIME. And that’s going to a private clinic, if you go through the public system the wait time is two years. Some kids will have outgrown their allergies before they can even get in to see a specialist. How ridiculous it that?

Ok, rant over. But if you have any egg-free recipe suggestions I’d love for you to share them in the comments below!

Over to you, what’s been happening in your world this week?

*This number may be vastly exaggerated and I have no actual scientific evidence to back it up.

Mamamia’s Managing Editor Jamila Rizvi & Editorial Assistant Kahla Preston also participated in the Color Run. Jam did an excellent job of documenting the day – check out her shots here: