So, Word of the Week.
I'm joining in with The Reading Residence's word of the week Linky. Lots going on over the past couple of weeks, but a theme running through was challenge.
chal·lenge

n.
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1.
a. A call to engage in a contest, fight, or competition: a challenge to a duel.
b. An act or statement of defiance; a call to confrontation: a challenge to the government's authority.
2. A demand for explanation or justification; a calling into question: a challenge to a theory.
3. A sentry's call to an unknown party for proper identification.
4. A test of one's abilities or resources in a demanding but stimulating undertaking: a career that offers a challenge.
5. A claim that a vote is invalid or that a voter is unqualified.
6. Law A formal objection to the inclusion of a prospective juror in a jury.
7. Immunology The induction or evaluation of an immune response in an organism by administration of a specific antigen to which it has been sensitized.
challenge (ˈtʃælɪndʒ)
vb (mainly tr)
1. to invite or summon (someone to do something, esp to take part in a contest)
2. (also intr) to call (something) into question; dispute
3. to make demands on; stimulate: the job challenges his ingenuity.
4. (Military) to order (a person) to halt and be identified or to give a password
5. (Law) law to make formal objection to (a juror or jury)
6. to lay claim to (attention, etc)
7. (Hunting) hunting (intr) (of a hound) to cry out on first encountering the scent of a quarry
8. (Veterinary Science) to inject (an experimental animal immunized with a test substance) with disease microorganisms to test for immunity to the disease
n
9. a call to engage in a fight, argument, or contest
10. a questioning of a statement or fact; a demand for justification or explanation
11. a demanding or stimulating situation, career, object, etc
12. (Military) a demand by a sentry, watchman, etc, for identification or a password
13. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) US an assertion that a person is not entitled to vote or that a vote is invalid
14. (Law) law a formal objection to a person selected to serve on a jury (challenge to the polls) or to the whole body of jurors (challenge to the array)
[C13: from Old French chalenge, from Latin calumniacalumny
Being a parent is never going to be easy - neither is being a woman, or being disabled. But sometimes it feels as though everything is a fight, and I'm always on the losing side. I want to be a part of things, but it's just so hard. So I've been challenged, and been challenging this lasdt little while. Hopefully things are on more of an even keel now, so I can leave the distress and confusion behind and get on with living this life instead.
Challenges can be rewarding and have positive outcomes, but it sounds as though yours are bringing more misery than joy. So I, too, hope that things are now moving onto a more even keel for you x Thanks for linking up with #WotW
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