Dream House

I found it.. my dream house… Completely ecofriendly. Water and power completely off the grid. Greenery everywhere. Huge windows that let in the sun and breeze in all the rooms. Balconies galore. In a nice community. As always its much much much beyond our budget.. typical virgo behavior makes me calculate multiple excels, creating formulas , calculating deficit and the likes Yesterday I was wondering what is in that house that is making me obsess over it? Is it the features or more than that, is it the aspirational lifestyle? The green spaces for children to play, the deck that makes me think of evening meals outside... Of mowgli and bambi making friends and running in and out of homes. Of neighbors with a similar mindset. Morning and evening walks for Cocoa...Enjoying the breeze on the terrace.. the small courtyard inside.. the attic.. i dont know. i just know that that house has a grip on me and am obsessing over it!!!

Dumbness Personified

Stand in front of the house and repeatedly jab the unlock button on the car key and wonder why the front door is not opening automatically!!!

Takes a couple of tries before I realize what I'm doing.Sheepishly open the front door with the key and then notice two sets of neighbours staring at me!!!!

conversations

BH to me "oh.. You coloured your hair by yourself."
"Yup. How did you know?"
"Your ears are black!!!"
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"Mama, Mowgliku no frens in daycare. ellarum go home."
"So what. You go make new friends. When mama joined college, I had no friends at all. Then I went and made friends with different people. see, dada was my friend in college."
Mowgli takes some time to digest this nugget of wisdom. He looks at the BH with a confused look and then back at me "dada was your fren in college?"
"Ya"
"then why is he here now also?????" (Friends are supposed to go home, why is the dada still with us?)
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"Mamade chweetie baby aara?"
"Bambi" she gurgles
"Mamade cutie pie aara?"
"Bambi" a chubby dimpled cheek smiles
"Mamade naughty baby aara?"
"MOWGLI!" she laughs out!
This girl!!!
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You know when the girl is spending too much time with her brothers when she insists on standing and peeing! Just like the boys!

All prepared!

I am going down to play shuttle

Okay.. but why are you taking so many things?

With an exasperated look at me!

Mama. See. Shuttle to play.

When I am hungry ,I want to eat chips

When I am thirsty, I want to drink juice

When I win, I want to write it down!!!!

p.s. the hairband is because mowgli and his dada have decided to grow their hair long.

God still continues to be an interesting topic around here!

Mama, tell me one your prayer.
Why?
Mowglinu padikana.. mamade prayersum padikande?
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from daycare..
Erik paranju, nammal God mala or God pottu or God bangle ittal maathrame God nammade bonesill ollunu...
pashe.. Mowgli paranju.."God is in everybody's bones. God mala onnum vendanu" and leaves the room with a smirk directed at the poor Erik :-)

P.S. Dont ask me why God resides in the bones and not in the heart!!!
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Topsy turvy

So bambi gave us a scare. After telling the whole world on how fuss free she is and so much more easier to handle than mowgli and she has no problems eating or sleeping(which btw are still a fight with mowgli) the girl decided that it was time to spice things up!


Took her for a routine vaccination. The doctor listened to her heartbeat and then looked at me 'does she have a heart murmur?' My heart literally stopped when I heard those words. The doctor kept on examining her, looked over all her records and prescribed a set of tests to check whether she was anaemic, an echo to understand whether the hole was serious etc. Little did we know that the tests would bring our life to a standstill! It was a Friday and I frantically called my dad, the BH. The heroine was running about as usual not understanding a thing. The blood test was horrible, she did not entertain the idea of being poked again after two vaccinations. The nurse was inexperienced. I was trying to hold her tight and in between mowgli kept running between us to get a better view. What with snapping at him, the nurse and bambi in no particular order all three of us were pretty frazzled at the end of it. Went to naturals, had ice-cream, calmed down a little and then went about our daily routine as if nothing had happened.

By sunday we got the results. Her platelet count was very low and then everybody scared us. High risk of internal bleeding. Platelet transfusion. Bone marrow transplant. Blood cancer. It was a cacophony of words.. doctors.. running around.. IV's. A haze.

and in the midst of all this, a beautiful two year old playing with her pooh-be and pushykat no clue what is happening around her, but cooperating with everything without any fuss. The BH and I talked to the entire family.. reassured them... re-reassured them.. tried reassuring ourselves also. my dad would call up every hour with a fresh set of instructions. mowgli was at his bua's place. cocoa all alone at our home. me at the hospital. the BH shuttling between all three.

To cut a long story short, her counts improved then decreased dramtically. Finally she had to be put on some emergency medication after three days. That was when she started complaining about her hand paining because of all the IVs. poor thing.  till then she was happy, playing with the nurses, and was the darling of the floor.

Finally got discharged after four days! They've ruled out all the scary diseases.Bambi is completely fine now , her counts are normal. She has a check-up in two weeks to see whether the counts remain stable or not. If they do, then this will be treated as a one-time occurrence and nothing to worry about.
Nothing to worry about the hole in the heart as of now. It might close on its own in a couple of years. They will do a repeat echo every year to check on it. They’ve said that she can do all kinds of physical activities and this will not restrain her in any way, though she will not be able to join the military because of this condition!!!! ( yes, that is the least of my worries right now.. that she might want to join the army)

Anyway, was a scary experience and we are all completely exhausted mentally and physically (and financially!!!). She on the other hand enjoyed all the attention and has come home utterly butterly totally spoilt!

A long break!

After a long time, back here..

Last year was a year of introspection, if I may call it that. a lot of thinking happened. I’m not the type who thinks through a decision. Mostly its all done on the spur of the moment. Some work out beautifully, some turn topsy turvy, some can be improved upon … some are the “what was I thinking?” types…B ut the last year, I can say that I thought through most of my decisions and most of them were taken fully conscious of the end. Was it better? I dont know. Sometimes I miss the impulsiveness and hate that I’ve to think so much. It makes all my decisions very practical where nothing happens for the fun of it!

The only impulsive decision that I took last year was to book a Bullet for the BH. Nobody is regretting it :-)

This year began with a bang. The BH chnaged jobs after 7 years with the same company! and i followed suit in a couple of weeks. Starting at my new place tomorrow. Lots of apprehension and excitement..

The maid left just when i thought i had everything sorted out. so its back to the daycare for both the kids and it seems like I'm the only one complaining. Mowgli is super thirlled to be back with his old friends and asks me to come later. Bambi as always, no fuss, bless her.she is happy to be there and eats and sleeps there.

so, thats how its been.