Zindagi Everyday

Wednesday, May 28, 2014

Sick Yet Active Kido

Days are really hot now..the temperature is getting higher and higher and so do the sweat and heat.

My cooling agent....my kido..she got effected with this heat. Viral fever has attacked her from last weekend ( sunday evening). Luckily she is getting well pretty good. But medicines are such a no no from her.It takes a lot of effort and two people to make her take the medicines.
Doctor's visit and medicines are the two things she is damn scared of. Let the doctor touch her and there she go all in tears and screams. Well, the doctors knows the children behavior and have discovered that distributing candies are going to distract kids and make his job easier..I wish something or some idea click me which can help the medicine time as a cake walk.
Apart from this she is a healthy kid. On the recent doctors visit, she weighed 11.17kgs( ideal should be : 10.45 kgs) and height is 2Feet & 7 inches i.e. approximately 82 cms (ideal should be: 81.7 cms) . I guess the figures look good.

By the way the little kido is on her learning train too fast . She has now started getting accustomed to few more words in her vocabulary like 'tata' for 'chacha' ,'mama' for my brother,'pa' for park,'tetter' for her tricycle. She has started calling her grandmother as 'Dada' now.

Along with this, she has started recognising some more body parts 'Cheeks' ,'Fingers', 'legs', 'pittu' for tummy. From her ABC book she now knows well the apple, ball, dog,jug, bird,car,grapes,lion, icecream, fish -> the doctors place and the retaurant has the mini aquarium installed, as soon as i say fish, pari points towards the aquarium..though she is scared to touch the glass..she thinks she will touch the fish :D..even she doesn't allow me to touch it.
One interesting incident to share, yesterday we were going to park, and the cuckoo was making sounds as 'coo-coo-coo'. I just told kiddo that this is how bird speaks, and asked her to confirm if she got it. After that just ask her how the bird speaks and she will make sounds as 'coo-coo' in her beautiful voice...making everyone to roll with laughs :D

Friday, May 23, 2014

Yes or No

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Its going to be almost 1.4 years that I decided to leave my job and stay at home with pari. Back then, she was just 4 months old baby. Now she is 1 year 7 months and 25 days ...Kids grow fast , or time flew so fast like a blink of the eye.

These days a big question comes every now and then in my mind, if I should start thinking to go back to work. This going back is going to be little difficult and time taking as the job hunt will be from scratch along with a title of 'sabbatical of 1.5 year' . Its not like i am financially in need of job, its just like sometimes i feel empty and question myself for my career and identity. Being a mom is no where less than the greatest asset of my life and I really really rejoice it in every moment of my life, but when I think about me, somewhere I feel myself lost, may be an identity crisis.

Everyone in my immediate family feels that I am spoiling my career now. Its high time I should think about it. Pari is grown up enough, and has her grandparents who are so attached that I dont need to think even for a second before handing her to them.While S is of the opinion that what is the need to work, Pari needs mumma more. So its kind of chaos in my head to decide or think on how to proceed. Somewhere I feel its my job to start teaching her, it should not be like she may lag behind other kids. It should not be that I repent on later my decision to join work again. Not to forget that still I make her eat her meals and milk.

The major facts which needs my attention are:
Am I ready to leave Pari for the whole day away from me and my eyes.
Is this right time to go back to work, or should I wait till she is 2
Should I focus more on educating her, rather than focusing on my career

I am so out of words to write anymore. Hopefully will update this one soon.Till then reader's valuable comments are most awaited by a confused mom !!

Monday, May 19, 2014

Random reminiscences

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At some point of time,you miss the people who had very special and close place in your life .Some people who use to be so good friends, roommates, colleagues, classmates, and many others.But now you are connected to them just virtually,without even saying a 'Hi/Hello' for years. Those people are just present with a green dot on your chat list of messengers. At first a little chit chat conversation will be there but slowly slowly this too vanishes. Now, the scene is like, both of you are seeing each other's green signal of availability but no one takes an effort to initiate a conversation.Connected through social media keeps you updated about the people. For some life events you convey wishes in the form of comments. The long phone calls, gossiping hours, chill outs all are things of the past.
One of the reason for creating this type of situation is I guess different cities. Once you move to a different place, the chances of meetings, and communications become less, lesser, and then least down the time lane.Everyone is so engrossed with the lives and routines that hardly is there any neccesity, or in some cases the feeling to make an effort to communicate.Busy life, changed priorities, new surroundings, new people, new you...everything falls in proper place to make this distance justified.Obviously how long will you hold on to virtual world around you, you need some real people to feel alive and happening.
Then someday you get a phone call or say any online ping from an old chapter of your life, which makes you to recall all the memories with that person. Both relive those memory lanes and sighs 'ah what a life it was..everything is so changed now' . After the phone call ends, or you become offline, both of you get busy with your current lives with a promise to stay in touch. PS: promises are meant to be broken !!

Its not like I am complaining about myself or anyone else.This thought took shape randomly while watching the online people in gtalk. Decided to give some words to it, getting a new post for my blog :)

Sunday, May 11, 2014

Happy Mumma !!

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Pari

Pari is now starting to arrange words into sentences. She now speaks 'Baba aao' , 'Mumma Aao', 'Papa Aao'. Also included few more words into her dictionary 'Nana', ' bao bao ( for doggy)' , 'da' ( for Dadi)', 'Bye'. She has such a crystal clear voice that makes her pronunciation very clear.It gives me immense feeling of joy to hear these words in her beautiful voice. Her smiles, laughter, making so many different faces, her love towards music ( she watches only songs on TV) , her little laughs, her little footsteps running all over in the house just makes my day and home lively.

She has started taking small meals with her dadu and me, which has helped a lot in calming down the worried mumma in me.Banana, Dal, Rice, Moong Daal Khichdi, Aloo (Potato), Bread, Rusk are some of the things which she eat without creating much fuss. Apart from all this, still to make her feed milk is such a difficult task. The only way to reach my aim of milk feeding her is to keep her busy with songs in tv and then slowly put spoon in her mouth. At times it use to work and at other times I have to engage her to videos in my mobile phone. Some of her favourite videos for milk time are:

Baa Baa Black Sheep
Twinkle Twinkle little Star
Nursery Rhymes

Apart from these, Installing some baby games in the phone has also helped me a lott. She likes to play ,to be precise 'try to play' in phone. While she is busy in figuring out how to proceed in the game next, my mission of milk feeding gets accomplished. :)

Now a days she is such a great lover of Ice-cream. All efforts to keep her away from it got in vain. She knows the refrigerator and the location where her 'I' (she says 'I' to Ice-cream) is kept. If I deny her of 'I' she starts trying to push the refrigerator along with her ear peircing screams. What to do have to give her a little bit. Kids are so intelligent these days.

Friday, May 9, 2014

Amaltas - The summer beauty

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In this hot and humid Delhi Summer, the sight of green trees gives a pleasant cooling effect to eyes. Wherever the eyes reach, the harsh and hot sunlight is harassing them. In between this, god's thoughtful & beautiful creation- green tress are there to give some sigh of relief .Lucky are those trees which are still standing straight showering their love, care & selfless service to we the destructible humans.

In front of my home, there stands this golden beauty - the Amaltas tree. Today I thought of appreciating this summer beauty. Earlier I was not aware of this tree, but after marriage, when I first stepped infront of my new home, this whole so big and beautiful amaltas tree welcomed me showering its beautiful yellow flowers. It left me so mesmerized with its golden beauty in the so hot month of April. Every morning I open the door of my room , this tree stands so awake with its beautiful flowers and wonderful sweet fragrance welcoming me for a whole new beautiful day. My balcony is so filled with its yellow flower petals.

Posting some pics of its bloom to let u see this golden beauty of my home. Some different facts which I observed are it first have flowers, then comes the leaves and then the fruits which are in the form of long legumes.

Picture captured during night

A random picture of Yellow beauty at my home

The fruits of Amaltas ( these are from previous season, thats why ripe and ready)

While I was writing this post, thought of doing a little bit Google search. Got to know interesting facts to improve my general knowledge about this golden beauty.

Sceintific name of Amaltas is 'Cassia fistula'
It is also known as the 'golden shower tree'.
It is the national tree of Thailand, and its flower is Thailand's national flower. Its yellow flower symbolize Thai royalty.
It is also the state flower of Kerala.The flowers are of ritual importance in the Vishu festival of Kerala, and the tree was depicted on a 20-rupees stamp.
Its is used in herbal medicine.
The tree has very strong and durable wood, and has been used to construct 'Ahala Kanuwa' , a place at Adams Peak, Sri Lanka
In Ayurvedic medicine, the golden shower tree is known as 'aragvadha' meaning 'disease killer'

Concluding the post here to let you also appreciate Amaltas if you see it anywhere :)

Thursday, May 8, 2014

Pari New Ride

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Pari is enjoying her new ride these days..She is liking it way too much. Now her visit to park is headed along with this new one. She is so much fond of it, and enjoys the ride so much that she refuses to get down from it and play. I guess, I have to stop taking the tricycle to the park so that she again run and play in the park and enjoy with other kids.

Marriage Party in Summers

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Yesterday we had to attend a marriage function in the city itself. I was apprehensive to attend that as I know how Pari makes her tummy demands fulfilled be it at any place. Before I reach anywhere with her, I start looking for a secure place for her tummy time :D

The most irritating thing of marriages to cope up with in summer is the heat and the sweat. And I am some extra favorite of summers in terms of sweating :(

Beginning with draping so heavy saris, not to forget that "drape a sari is still a herculean task for me" { thts true, now don't give me that look} ,anyhow with some help got it done. The sweating was so eager to wipe off all the makeup ( I believe in doing minimal of it though). Finally after getting ready we all reached the venue.

Now here comes the interesting part of the story. Pari was so delighted and happy to see all the lighting, flowers and decorations. The most alluring were the lights of the dance floor. All through the time of our stay at the venue, she was walking on the dance floor, watching the lights, getting on and off of it, & the slope. She was really enjoying. At any time I saw her approaching me, my heart use to thud and my mind repeated ..."now get ready mommy..." but at the blink of the eye she reversed her footsteps to her things which caught her fancy and I felt a sigh of relief. Neither she cried, nor she threw any tantrums, she just enjoyed and so did I feeling relaxed. The whole party and dinner went well for us, on our return she slept the whole way as it was already 11 p.m. Just posting pics of us :D

My Pari sometimes behaves so well making me feel proud what a amazing kid she is. God bless her.

Pari- the super kido

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As I have already mentioned, Pari learns very fast. But today what she demonstrated was out of my thoughts.

We ( me & Pari) were in room, suddenly she wanted to get outside to her "dada" (grandfather) . She said "bye" to me and gave her flying kisses which usually she do and reached to the door. But suddenly she turned back, picked her shoes up in her hands and headed towards the door. As the door was closed ( not locked) , she had to open it. I was thinking now she will call "mamma" in her cutie sweet voice and I had to get open the door for her. Contrary to my thoughts, she took few steps back, put her shoes down on the floor making both her hands free, opened the door. After it, held shoes back in her hands and headed out of the room. And there I was sitting surprised watching her movements and intelligence.

Not to forget mentioning, Pari tries to do her all stuffs like I do. Wherever she gets struck , there is going to be a loud call "mummaaaa" and I swear i just love it although she keep me on toes for the whole day and sometimes at night too.

Right here, I am just too tempted to put the pics of her shoes here. My blog my rules :D

Maid Mess

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Begin the summer vacations, and all the maids start packing their bags for the hometown visit, attend marriages of their relatives & children, arranging their closets back home for next coming year...which means a complete gaga time for the maids and a hustle bustle in our lives. How much we depend on these maids , this is the best time to realize.
Though some are smart enough to make more bucks by staying and continuing to work in the vacations. And really the money they demand comes as so out of the blue. During this vacation time, suddenly the supply and demand criteria comes into picture. So much conversations, bargaining, and unrealistic wage demands makes this summer vacation more dreadful to us. Also if one refuses to hire her adhering to her demands,( by the way the house lady doesn't have the option of refusing, its they{maids} who decide if they want to work or not) these maids will not allow any other maid to do work at the refused house.
These days we are dealing with this ordeal daily. Lucky enough we got a new maid. Now she has her own timings. Today was her first day of work at our home, I just woke up and surprised to see her done with all her work, that too at 7:30 a.m. Before S left for the office she left her office (our home).Maids rock, we shocked ....
Anyways have to get along with her work schedule, as we are lucky ones having a maid in off season :D

Friday, May 2, 2014

Pari - the quick learner

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With every passing month, Pari shows some new advancements and adventures with it.

She has to do everything which she watches anyone of us doing. Posting some pics to show what i mean ..

Pari applying stuffs on her face, the driving queen, big girl having meal herself, and not the least trying to make butter out of cream.

Apart from this, now a days she is learning to speak..She keeps on calling 'mumma' till i do not reply her. If I am sleeping with face against her, she has to pull my hairs :( and call 'mumma' till she sees my face. But on the weekends, her papa gives her the bath, and rides :) ...some sort of reliever for me as she gets time with her papa and i get time for my work.

Belated happy anniversary !!

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This was our 3rd wedding anniversary.And instead of making it a celebration, it was like a war day for me. I wonder, how i have to keep on pushing S to come out of his shy/comfort zone to make out some occasions to be well celebrated. At times i succeed, and other times have to surrender.
By the way coming back to the anniversary part, as it was working day, I was fine with not having much of celebration, cakes, flowers etc etc, and was expecting that we will go out for a family dinner. But what the hell, S returned so late from office that no dinner was in vicinity, neither he mentioned about it. Comeon, it was such a mood spoiler from him. So obviously i had to be angry and rude ( as a warning for dare he do it next time :P )
Sensing my anger, S apologised , mentioning ' official month end' excuse. I know that he is speaking the truth, but at the same time how could I forget that anniversaries are meant to be celebrated. Not to forget, S did made attempts to go for a 'Panipuri round' but i was too angry to accept the invitation. Anyways the day and occasion are gone. S made the loss on the next day coming home early along with flowers, chocolates, and dinner. What to do I had to let go off my anger and frustation, rather than pouring water on his efforts...Lets have 'Belated happy anniversary' celebration :D