Son is all about pretend play now… He uses real time vessels to make dosas in his imagination (actually he does all the steps involved in making dosa perfectly). He then serves it in a plate and tells us to taste it. And then he fills up a bowl with sambhar from another big vessel [...]
Last night we came back home to face some great adventure. You can call it a nightmare, it’s purely a matter of choice. Actually, I feel eligible to write a book now, about ‘what to do when your house is in flood’. Yes, that’s what we did last night. Oh wait, but a flood in [...]
Son, One of my favorite words in the dictionary and in life is change. Looking at you, I recognize that you are the word itself. Change. I’m amazed at how much a person of your size can learn everyday. Come on, how much memory is there in your little brain? And how much processing it [...]
If there’s one thing that helps in our toddler household, it’s singing. There’s singing everywhere, everyday, for everything. When I was pregnant, I started listening to lullabies, to get into the baby mood. Soon, I started singing them and I truly believed that my unborn baby was listening. When the baby was born, singing became [...]
Son: Appa? (Translation: When will papa come?) Me: 5 minutes. You sit and wait. Son: Time? Me: (Surprised) Time? It’s 9.15 now. Son: Fifty? (Pauses to Think) Sixty. Forty. Amma, shop! (excited) Me: Shop? What about the shop? Son: Fifty. Dol. Me: You mean dollars? Son: Yes. Fifty. Dol. Shop. Me: (Thinking) Now I know you are [...]
I’ve started a planned diet regime today (diet as in “Noun: A prescribed selection of foods” and not “Verb: Eat sparingly, for health reasons or to lose weight”). I’ve been toying around with this idea for quite some time and finally time did come to start it. The next 6 weeks are going to be [...]
