My Lunch Companion

This is a pic from yesterday's lunch..

Just loved the birds around us..:)

Happy Birthday Sweetheart

My dearest daughter,
May you always be this happy cheerful person you are.
May all you wishes be fulfilled and you life be filled with all the joy and happiness.
May your thought always bring a smile to all the people who love you.
This year is going to be so different for you. You will be a big sister. A sibling that you so wanted will be here. You have been so excited about it and so loving towards unborn sibling that it brings tears of joy to me. May you always love like this and your love always be returned many fold.
I love you with all my sweetheart.
Am choking now and don't have any words for now...

Lots of Love
Amma.

Not a Kindergartner anymore!!!

Well, Sahithi's Kindergarten lasted all of three days. School started on Wednesday and on Friday I got a call from her teacher Mrs.B, saying that she is recommending a move to Grade one. Her words were " Sahithi seems like a very mature kid for her age. Academically she seems to be ahead of her peers and think, she is ready for first grade". It was really very nice to hear a such nice words about my little baby from a new teacher. So I am officially a first grader's mom now. It means longer school hours, more responsibility, more homework and projects and more attention academically. First Grade, here we come all charged up now.

Off to Vegas

It's the long weekend and we are off to Vegas. Yippe yeee...
I never ger tired of the place. Going with a huge group of friends and totally looking forward to it.
Wish me LUCK because I intend to gamble away the weekend :):)

First Day of Kindergarten, In her own words..

Today was the first day of Kinder garten and below is how Sahithi described her day and I quote her verbatim, not one word changed.


First we played outside. Then we stood for pledge, a song came and then first bell for us to go to the bathroom and drink water, second bell for us to freeze, third bell for us to lineup to go inside. And then when we went inside, we hanged our backpacks on the hook outside. There was story about Bono, the monkey. And then we went out side and ate snack on the benches with first graders. For a little while Mrs.Burt told a story, read a book about a story and then I forgot the other one. Then Mrs.Burt called the names to go the desks and then we colored a bee and we wrote ourselves on a piece of paper about our feelings "I feel fun", "what's your friend's name?". I draw on the paper and then we went out to eat lunch. If you are done, you raise your hand and sit next to the wall for a little while. Then you go out and play.I forgot something. First bell is for lining up, second bell to freeze and third to go to the bathroom. We lay down on the table for a little while. We sat on the carpet and Mrs.Burt told another story. She took us outside and then I saw Archana Aunty. Mrs.Burt said everyone was doing very good work. She said I read well. And then I saw momy. I Archana aunty's house we played with Tia and then we colored. And we read books and even Tia read books and then we wrote our sentences and then Shriya went home. We ate apples, sandwiches, garlic bread and drank juice. And then momy came and picked me up. We saw kids outside playing and we went to the pool and I played. At school, there was friend named Ellie and I played with her. I took a bath myself and dressed all by myself. I went to S aunty's house and ate dinner there. That's all. And write the end and a happy face with a heart. :).

Another Decade gone....

I am into my last 2 hours of my twenties.
The most important years of my life, the years that shaped me who I am today are gone.
Lot of thinking happening in my head. Lot of muddles thoughts. will need to sort them out. Soon.

Why..Oh Why.....

Why does everything have to be so difficult...
Why do I have to struggle for every thing..
Why does not anything go according to plan..
Why does God dispose everything that I propose..

Why?? Someone tell me WHY??

Riddle-me-Ree, Who can she be?

Greetings wonderful MTBs!!!
and good work to all of you!
For having solved the riddle before
I give you all this clue.
This time its not a letter
nor is it a number clue
This time its just a good old blank
which means no clue for you!
Booooo! you say with spirit..
Yaaay! we say in throng!
For it is part of the thrill of the chase
which leads to the next little song!

“Not daunted by Adam's ribs, she
Speaks her own mind loud and clear;
Mother of a blogger and one herself
She makes a mean fish kalia.”

Solve it and you get your lead
Misguess, and you lose your speed
Solve it slow but solve it now
And before you go, take a little bow
Go to 'Comments' and leave me a clue
Tell me which blog you are off to.
Good luck! Good luck! Be on your way.
You have your work, cut out for the day!

Sahithi's Latest

Well, long time since I posted anything about Sahithi.
This happened a few weeks ago.

After me telling her repeatedly not to do something, she kept doing it.
I snapped and yelled at her saying something about how she is doing it even though she is not supposed to.
She was startled because I had not yelled her in quite a while. Her face crumpled and she went and sat a corner quietly.
I heard her cry after a few minutes and deliberately did not pay attention to her.
Few more minutes later I heard her say

" I have never seen a Momy yell like this. I don't think mommies should be yelling at little girls. All mommies should always be friendly"

And before I could take in those words she dissolved into tears and said

" My whole family made me sad. My whole family is my momy and dada and they made me sad".

I was quite startled. Gave her a few minutes, gave her a hug and told her I love you kannamma. And she replies back

" I know you love me but you made me sad".

My little baby is growing up *sigh*

Am back..For good.

So, what was I doing all these days...
Enjoying as long as my parents were here and then sulking after they are gone.
They could not stay for as long as they had planned to because of some unforeseen circumstances.
So they left and I sulked. Much better now. Got back into my usual routine.
So will be posting more regularly now.

What has been Sahithi up to these days..Loosing teeth. Already lost 6 of them. 4 back, 2 still missing and 2 loose. My baby is in a hurry to grow up. :(
She starts public school this year. Her registration is complete. Took her to see the new school and she LOVES it. And she is looking forward to go to the new school. She did not take the previous school change so well. So, I am kind of anxious about it.

Some pictures..

Thank You Tharini, Poppin, Orchid, Shobhana for the wishes.
She had a blast. Here are some pictures.

Happy Birthday Dear Sweet Heart

Dearest Sahithi,

You will be 5 years old tomorrow.
Time just flies. Seems like yesterday you were born and now you are a young one with thoughts, likes and dislikes of your own and old enough to articulate them.
Sweetheart, you are the most important thing that has happened to us. You will always be our priority. Dada's little girl and Mama's sweet heart bangaru.

I know that I am probably not being the best mother to you. There are so many things that I wish I had done differently and In spite of all that, you have turned out to be the best and all the credit for that goes to you. There is so much I need to learn from you. Your abilty to forgive and forget in a heart beat, your ever smiling cheerful attitude, your patience with me and all the kids around and so many more. I was so very proud when one of your teachers told me that "Sahithi is the most cheerful and happy girl in school. She is game for anything. Never says no to try anything". I wish that you will always be like this and that some it rubs off on me .

I have been losing my patience with you so easily for such small things these days. My gift to you this birthday is a promise that I will be more patient with you. No more yellings, no more glarings, no more disapprovals. I proimse that I will put on my kiddie shoes, and be friends with you, enjoy your mischeif and may be become a part of it too. I will try and experience your childhood with you. And if I ever fail to do so, I will come back here to read this and remind myself.

There is so much more I want to say, but can't find words.
All I can say right now is I love you sweetheart and wish you all the happiness in the world.

Love,
Amma.

First Post for the year.

Well here I am after the long break. Lots of updates and lots of blog posts to catch up with.

We are having a gala time with family. I am having a full house with parents, brother and a dearest cousin. Don't know how the day starts and ends. After hectic time at work, got a week's vacation and for a good reason. My little brother graduated with a master's and all of us were present to see him take the graduation walk. It was such a proud moment for all of us. When I graduated, it was just my roomie who was there to cheer me. So I wanted everyone to be there when he walks. Probably more for me than him. :).



Did I hear anyone ask which school he graduated from?? VIVA LAS VEGAS...Yep, we let a 21 year old go to school in Vegas and THANK GOD he turned out alright.

Now slowly getting back into the routine.

This and That

10 hours work days....
Persisting cough and cold...
Hubby not feeling so very well....
stream of visitors over the weekend.....
Messy house, hunt for maid led me no where....
Light at the end of tunnel, parents coming tonight.....


15 more hours for them to be here and I can't wait. This is the first time they are coming together. Mom was here for my pregnancy but this is dad's first trip. And this will be the first time in 7 years that we will spend some quality time together, all of us including my brother. Sahithi has been very very excited and counting days. Fun filled months are what are ahead now.

Confused

Finally, Hubby dear found out about my blogging and he has no opinion about it!!!!!!!!!!!!
Am still confused as to be happy about it or sad about it.

More about me...

Shobhana tagged me with one. So here I am, with more stuff about me.

The rules are:
1.Link to the person that tagged you, and post the rules on your blog.

2.Share 7 random and/or weird facts about yourself.

3.Tag 7 random people at the end of your post, and include links to their blogs.

4.Let each person know that they’ve been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.

Seven quirks of mine are,

1. I cannot sleep with my bedroom door open or my feet uncovered. I HAVE to close it for me to be able to sleep and HAVE to cover my feet. There is no other go.

2. I hate having a full kitchen sink. I try to clean up the dishes ASAP. It feels like the whole house is dirty if there are unwashed dishes.

3. I am not very fond of jewellery. If I don't buy any more jewellery for myself for the rest of my life, I will be fine with it.

4. I am very punctual. I don't like making anybody wait for me.

5. I have long, strong nails. And I used to be very proud of them and take good care of them. Now, with all the household chores, they are pretty neglected. :(

6. I thoroughly enjoy cooking. It is my therapy for all my problems. I cook when I am happy, sad , angry, stressed.. you get the drift.

7. I am a multi tasker. At any given time you can find me doing 3 different things. I am always trying to think of ways to save time to do a particular task.

Now tagging seven more people boo, kodismom, dotmom. I think I will stop at three so that they can tag more. :)

six years of being together..

Six years of being together, growing together, learning together and the best of all fighting with each other. What fun and frolic these six years have been. Both of us as different as chalk and cheese when we started and slowly reaching a point where it is difficult to comprehend if chalk turned to cheese to chalk. He has definitely imparted some of his personality to me and I would like to think that he has learned something from me too.

Dinner and a movie it was for us....a traditional anniversary celebration..

To my man, who buys be plants instead of flowers, all I can say that

ek pyaar kaa nagmaa hai,
maujo kee rawaani hai
Zindagi aaur kuchh bhi nahi,
teri meri kahaani hain

HI there..

Well, I did vanish for a few day. All the people who have missed me and checked on me, a BIG Thank You from me. It has been a little busy at work, but inertia like mood set in on personal front. A zombie like routine of home and work and nothing else. Am back to being active now..

Fat tummies and Babies.......

Last week I could not go to see Sahithi's Soccer game. Her dad took her. They came back from the game and hubby dear told me that she was a little tired and the coach said that her energy level seems to be a little on lower side that day. Following conversation happened

Me : Bangaru, you did not have energy because you did not eat well. So you need to eat well.
Sahithi : Amma, I can't eat too much because I will get fat.

Me: *Absolutely shocked, telling myself I need to keep my cool* You will look very cute with chubby cheeks sweetheart.
Sahithi: But if I get fat my tummy will grow big. If my tummy grows big, I will have a baby and I am too small to have a baby. So, I have to stay thin. I can't get Fat amma.

Me:*Mouth hanging open, thinking of what to say*
Sahithi: *Continues her coloring*
Hubby Dear: * Laughing uncontrollably for the next few minutes*

On the hind sight, she figured out how babies happen. I am hoping that the birds and bees story can be put away for a long long loooong time.

Bling...Anyone...

Happy Halloween.... to all who are celebrating it.

This one is so much of a peer pressure on kids. Sahithi has been talking about Halloween from past one month and she had decided to become a princess. I tried talking her out of it but finally she talked me into it...what can I say, I am softie at heart. :):)

So here she is doing her trial run with the costume tonight

Do you think there is sufficient bling on her? :):)

I can't wait to see all the kids dressed up in their Halloween best. Especially the ones who are celebrating their first Halloween. Satya, Adya, Kutti Girl, Mieja, Dlittle. I know some of you don't post the pictures of the kids, but I am hoping that you will post a picture of the costume.