Darling Daughter

Its our 14th marriage anniversary yesterday. Sid was busy with his CEO visiting the city. So I was not sure if he'd be home early. He reached home around 8:30pm (early under normal circumstances) Kids and I were super excited as mom and madhu have sent a cake to cut. Kids waited for him to freshen up and could no longer hold their excitement. So I spilled the beans and asked him to get ready soon for a cake cutting session (albeit photo session included)

We had to call mom over a video call so Ishi took charge of arranging the cake and call mom too. Suddenly we realized there wont be any pics if its a video call. Hence she few pics of us and Pratheek who could not wait any longer to cut the cake himself. And soon after she called up mom again to view the cake cutting. It kept troubling me that 4 of us dont have a pic of today but she dint feel bad about it. Behaved very matured for her age. I could see that all her concentration was to see that cake cutting happens smoothly.

We ordered food from outside and sat down with a drink. And switched on the TV. She voluntarily came and told us that we both can watch whatever we wanted and that she'd handle Pratheek in the green bedroom. We let them sit there for a while but could not sit happily without them being around. We asked them to sit with us and happily watched Jordindian (anytime fav hands down)

When the time came to hit the sack, she came to me and said "Mom I'd sleep in the other room today and you and dad can sleep in the same room." I could not hide my happiness with the way she thought at that point of time. All she thought was...."SOMEWAY I HAVE TO KEEP MOM AND DAD HAPPY. Its their day" It was a very sweet gesture from her. But we choose to sleep together ....all 4 of us. We are family and a happy one at that. Love you so much Ishi. My darling.

Special Bond

Last night, I went to cult locking up kids at home.

Ishi took such good care of her little brother. When I came back home, he woke up from his sleep and said that his akks played him "Jaya hanuman" to put him to sleep without any nightmares. My heart swelled with happiness. I just went and kissed her in her sleep.

They both fight a lot which is normal among all siblings. But at the end of it, they both cant survive a day without each other. She loved her bro so much. Reminds me of the time when I gave birth to Pratheek and all were anxiously waiting outside the OT to get their hands on our bundle of joy. I always wanted her to hold him first. Everyone oblized. She started singing "yay yay yay nakoka thammudu puttadu" at that moment he was just a doll to her. But that very doll slowly turned into her naughty troubling yet sweet little bro.

God bless them both. They should live in harmony till the very end. And nothing should ever come in between them. For theirs is a very special bond !!

Back From Vacay

After a really long time, we all have been to a holiday (thailand 2019) !! and needless to say it was just too good. I personally dint yearn for 'just one more day here in Thai' !! Meaning it was a satisfactory vacation. Kids never wanted to come back home. We are home last night, but am sure their hearts lay somewhere in those beaches :-) Pratheek's for sure !!

Ishi might be missing her cousins. At times I feel she misses that company. The company of same age gals. I feel sad about it....but thats life. She'll slowly grow up to learn to enjoy the times when she has what she wants and go easy with a 'its ok' attitude when she doesn't. Better if she learns it fast. Atleast being her mom, I cant see the pain or emotional dearth in her heart during those times. So i really wish she should soon understand this difference.

And then talk about vacation. We started on 10th morning(flight @ 9:15am) and reached Bangkok @ 2:45pm (UTC) By the time we were done with immigration formalities, we were left with a little time before we could get into our next flight to Phuket. We just did some window shopping and had an authentic Thai meal.

Later after we boarded the flight and landed in Phuket. By the time we checked into our hotel, it was almost 11pm. We dint waste a minute and hit the sack almost immediately.
Day 1- Next day had a late breakfast and met the other group around 10am. All of us quickly got ready, spent a very short span on the beach right opposite to our resort. And then headed to Tiger Kingdom. Was an ok experience with the tiger cubs there. I personally should have been a bit more bold and held them well.

After that we had lunch at an indian hotel, came back to the resort, freshened up, and been to Fanta Asea. Nice place for a half day outing.

Day 2 - Islands Ishis first Scuba. Hope she loved it. Mine was good as me n Sid could do it together. Hand-in-hand literally. Wish to have such exp again. Pratheek wanted to do it but was undreage plus am sure even if they allowed am sure he would not have been able to handle the gear. Next island we did snorkelling Including our fearless Pratheek. Am glad he did. What a braveheart my son is !!

Day 3- Phuket to Krabi
Day 4- Snorkelling again. All 4 of us
Day 5- To bangkok by flight. And temple tour and Royal palace tour.
Day 6-
Day 7- Got ready and checked out of our hotel. With heavy hearts. We were all quiet on the way to the airport. Sad that this is the last day of our holiday.

Points I wanted to mention. Though with occasional thikkalu, Ishi has been really sweet during the entire trip. Though Pratheek being Pratheek was his "normal self" to her she used to come out of the grumpy mood in no time. Overall, I could see my kids are growing up. Not just physically but mentally too.

Next on my bucket list is to go on a holiday with just Ishi before she flies out of the next.

Wont mom help babies?

I bought a new toy...fishing rod with a magnet and 4fishes with magnets each for Pratheek. The rope gets tangled up in that pulley system every time he carelessly plays with it. Since I bought it yesterday I fixed it for him so many times that this morning when he asked me again to do it, I said I wont and dint speak a word after it.

After a while he comes to me and starts talking very sweet.He said , "Amma when a small baby comes and asks you to help, wont you help? Dont you like cute small babies? Can they do any thing on their own? Why you dont want to help? " He made his point that hez a baby and he needs to be helped any number of times he asks me.

I was both proud and happy at his intelligence and the way he put it but also annoyed. I gave a soft whack on his back and asked him to run from there before I give him a bigger one.

Kid I wish I had

While we waited at the Koramangla stadium for Pratheek's Taekwondo competition, it got so late that I felt I need to feed something to him. I gave him a banana. He pointed out that it was not so good at one end of it. Actually it was a little over riped. Having no bin around to throw, I forced myself to chew that 'bad' piece off the banana with the hope that he eats. I was concerned that he slpet without eating his dinner previous night and today as well he had just a glass of milk. My effort paid off and he ate half of the banana. My eyes gleamed with joy.

While this happened what else also happened was this. There was this small boy whose age would be around 6years. He looked a little underweight and correct word would be a little under nourished. He was looking at me while I fed the banana to Pratheek. He seemed to be smitten by the banana. He was just a kid. I took pity on him and offered him one. He politely refused but I insisted. Later after a bit of prodding, he took it from my hand. I wanted to see how happy he would be to eat it. To my surprise he quickly peeled it off and started making it into pieces. He then gave one piece each to smaller kids around who were sitting in a group along with him. At the end he was finally left with a tiny banana piece which he gulped but he had such a content look on his face. He was happy that he fed the smaller kids. None of them actually even knew he had a banana in his hand. He had a chance to eat it without sharing with anyone. But share, he did.

I just wanted to go an hug this kid for the kind of heart he had. In this age where parents do what not just to see their kid eat something. Anything. But this kid who does not have anything and surely must have been from a poor family knew the value of many things. He knew the value of sharing, he knew the value of food, he knew the value of friends and family. The kind of values I would love to see in my kids

Sad that I could not take a picture with him due to space constraint in my phone. But I will remember for the rest of my life .

Taekwondo Champ Pratheek

Just a month old Taekwondo student. He participated in Karnataka state under 6 years championship and won gold today. He had to fight 2 kids of same age.

Weekend

there is nothing much to quote about this weekends haps. Saturday was spent in Ishi going to school for first half. Prepping Prath for his mid noon Taekwondo class. Class was btn 3:30- 4:30pm. Sid n Ishi went to pick him up from his class. All 3 spent some time out in play area and came back home around 6ish. Then cook eat sleep. Day (saturday) done for. Then comes Sunday. Sunday...hmm yeah took him to dance class for intro. Met Kalyani n Sahas there. Again they both started fighting. Sahas pushed Prath into the fountain water. Someone helped him up and he came to us crying. I felt so sorry for him. But could not say anything to Sahas. Left it to Kalyani to deal with her son. I really dont know how to react at times like this. It has always been this ...."oh if i say something...Prath may not have any friend. Plus as of now...hez the only friend Prath got"... Malli manasulo Pratheek .."amma Sahas ni emi analedu" anukuntademo anna feeling. How do I help the situation anna feeling? Proper parenting chathakaavatledu anna feeling. SO much of confusion. Took him and Ishi(from her painting class) home and change his dress. We were done with lunch by 1pm :-) much to my happiness. Ishi asked for a cake. So I baked a chocolate cake with a dark chocolate Ganache. Came out ok. Prath dozed off in between. So had to wake him up for his Taekwondo class. Got him ready and all 4 of us went to the class. had to Sids help as the class was inside some gullies and dint feel it safe to go alone. Sat there till the class was over and came back home by 7:30. Made egg curry (came out horrible) fed kids and Sat watching Dr.Strange. Kids slept off by 10:30 ish. Movie was over by 11:20pm. Then I got up to clean my kitchen, utensils and never ending mess. Slept around 00:54am. Woke up at 6:20am today and its like any other Monday morning, more later.......till then have a nice week.