Wo(a)ndering thoughts!!!

Dear Santa, Its time of the year you are remembered in many ways, shopping centers having a money run to take picture with you, they have sessions for pets too now (Yes you heard it right, pets now get to take picture with you), kids busy writing their #wishlist and #letters. Netflix makes most of it by highlighting all those Christmas family movies. Families start to put up the (mostly fake plastic) trees and lights.  It is officially started to feel like festive season, my cousin from north America says they had snow storm already, although it’s quite warm down under during Christmas. I’m sure you would enjoy the warm nights when you drop in through the chimney. My little one still wonders how you get to our house 'coz we don’t have chimney. <I know he is secretly wishing for one now , please don't fulfill his wish on this, I have no idea how to use one for starters. Shh!! don't tell him that..> Anyhoo, you might be wondering what am I doing here ...

I wrote beauty and the beast when my little boy was 4yrs old, it was difficult to explain him why we have different skin color. Now he is 6.5yrs and I think he is fairly mature for his age. The same old question popped up recently but this time, he had a solution. ‘Mom, I was born in Australia and why do I still have different color?’ ‘Baby, its doesn’t matter where you were born, we are still your parents. You get what we got’.  He thought about it for a while and said ‘ Why can’t we all have same color, like everyone in this world’ . It really melted my heart hearing him say that, in his little mind he had a solution for unfairness. But.. Yes, there is a big BUT… How do I tell him that babies get killed in some parts of this world just because it’s a GIRL. How do I tell him that there are children in this world who had to walk 5 km everyday to get a decent education? How do I explain him that people kill each other and call it honor kil...