Mumbai Monsoons Masti

Yesterday we had an extempore picnic to pandavgarh. We trecked for 2 kilometers till the bottom of the waterfall and enjoyed in water.

I was very happy to see that you actually walked the entire way and the also did some rock climbing when we reached near the waterfall. With your small hands you held the big stones, climbed up and went round about just like professional rock climber. You were getting tired in between but Aarush dada inspired you to go on. Once we reached near the waterfall you sat in a small pool of water which had a small waterfall in that. You floated around, threw stones in water and played water games.

On the way back we ate our lunch and you slept  on Manoj kaka's shoulder even before we could reach the end of the trek.

It is good to see that with Aarush dada you have started getting more active and strong.

This was the third in series of our Monsoon Picnics.

First was when we came down on the road to get wet and ate Pani Poori on credit tell the vendor we will give the money later. We jumped a lot in water pools and had soo much fun.

Second was when we went to Manshej Ghat, you looked so cute sitting under the waterfall wearing a raincoat.

So Princess, let us thank god for these silver linings in dark clouds.

While I am not around...

I am writing these posts so that we remember that we were always there for each other even though not always together.

I am working on your photos and trying to make a collage and video. That ways I everyday spend some time exclusively with you.

I am working hard in office and try to strengthen my career so that we don't have to go through this again,

and above all remembering you and missing you every single minute..

Love you a lot princess!

First day in school uniform - kidzee

First day in school uniform !

You have accepted your new school kidzee easily and this is the first day you are in a uniform.
God Bless and kala tika!

Confusions of a 2.5 yr old mother

I am trying to write and avoid to write this post since one and a half months.

I am on a long term project to Mumbai and I am confused if I did a right thing by accepting it or not. By the way, I had no option but to accept it.

I am confused whether you will be less unhappy to stay in Delhi and miss me or stay in mumbai and miss Papa.

I am confused whether you will like to have me by your side all the while or you will love to be daughter of someone who tried to be successful in her career by managing all parts of life.

I am confused whether the agression growing in you is a result of staying away from me or for staying without the company of kids.

I am confused whether it is a good idea to meet 2-3 times a week and spend some quality time together or try meeting you everyday, even if it means just to disturb your routine and sleep times.

This is a difficult time for us princess. I hope it will be over soon and in future when we will look back we will be able to say that it all happened for good.

May god be with us!

Weekend Update: Shades of growing up

After a long time we had a leisurely weekend to ourselves and I just loved to spend some good time  with you princess.

The party started from Friday evening itself when your papa decided to take us out for a movie.

On the way you did a nice act of kindness by giving last piece of your favorite biscuit to another kid at red light. It didnt take any effort for me to coax you into it, I asked you whether you will share and you kindly agreed without any second thoughts.

The movie wasnt very interesting, so we did our part of goofiness and sat in the another audi after the intermission of first movie. It was half shor in the city and half zokommon:)  We loved our mischief and laughed for a long time on this.

Saturday, towards evening you did something that actually inspired me to do something for you.

You were bored and wanted me to entertain you and I was sleepy so I gave you a difficult task.

" If you go and do clean up of all your toys I will take you to swings" and then i closed my eyes thinking that you will get dissuaded and will not disturb me.

You not only understood this whole sentence in english but also came to me after 15 minutes to tell me clean up is done. I got up to check and couldn't believe you actually did a nice clean up that too without any help, all toys in the respective boxes and in the toys drawer, the place was absolutely clean.

I really got inspired and immediately we went to swings.

On swings after half an hour another kid came in to ask for her turn and after little bit of resistance and negotiation you actually relented.

Sunday, was your fun day with Kavya at home, you were exuberant, I wish you two be buddies as your mothers are. After that we had the haircut during which you cried too much and after wards your were happy to be called cutie pie for the rest of the evening.

Love you princess for all the reasonableness, kindness you show at this young age.

Game of Patience

Two consecutive days in different shopping malls and two different difficult tests of patience.

One, sitting through a 40 minutes meeting in a cramped meeting room with no space to move and no permission to speak or make any kind of noise.
Second, enduring 1 hour of selecting and trying out different dresses in front of trial room with no freedom to run around and enjoy.
Excellent performance on both counts, incredible patience shown for a toddler.

On both occassion, to start the journey towards home required a lot of patient persuasion, incentive of icecream and toys and finally a patient listening to 20 minutes of howling and screaming without getting upset and irritated.
Irritation was there for sure which was endured with silence, average performance shown on both counts for a mother..

You win hands down in this game Princess:)

Mixed Emotions

I feel so happy that you are mostly like me, still sometimes I feel few things you shouldn't have picked up from me may be like my loud voice.

Today, I was faced with this happy unhappiness more strongly than ever before.
We went to school and realized that we have missed the Parent Teacher Meet on saturday due to some confusion. An informal PTM started and I was given your report card, your works of painting and crafts and was getting a general update on you, when you interupted me with a sweet Muma, mumma, I looked at you and you very sweetly told me : Bye . Bye Mumma, and the look on your face said, "Ab jao bhi".

I was like.............................GONE BLANK.....

I knew this day will come and will come sooner than anticipated that you will wait for me to go so that you can do whatever you wished and I knew this because I did the same. What I was not ready for was that it will come soooo soon.Much too soon ..

Your teacher very happily declared you are very confident and independent. May God keep this confidence and independence intact and  May God give me wisdom to enjoy it.