Wo(a)ndering thoughts!!!

Last year G's granny passed away and he had to go to India to participate in the final rituals.. I had to explain A what happened to his great-granny..The conversation went like this Me: A!! Ta's granny went to God. We won't be able to see her when we go to India next time. Ta has to go to India to see her one last time.Okay!! A: oh!!! Why did she go to GOD? Me: Because god wanted her to come back to him A:Which God ? <Considering we have 'n' number of God for every thing> Me: I think Lord Vishnu,  as great granny is quite fond of Lord Vishnu. A: What happens now? Me: God will send her back as a Baby to someones' house.. A: Whose house? Me: I don't know..Only god knows where she goes next.. After few months.. this "After-life" topic comes on and off in our conversations.. Because A is just curious little monkey.One day, A: Ma!! Which god you like? <Without knowing where this is heading>  Me : Lord Krishna !! Bec...

To give you a background, I’m scared of invisibles scary beasts aka G-H-O-S-T.. I’m talking about anything related to   G-H-O-S-T i.e its cousins Vampire or its ancestors Draculas for that matter.. I remember when I was studying at University, my friends forced me to watch this movie which wasn’t scary/Ghosty but scary to my standards, I couldn’t sleep for months after that.. I remember watching a scary movie with my cousin once made me sick for 2 days.. Another time I screamed my lung out watching my own shadow walk with me in the dark (stop laughing!!! I accept that was a dumb one)..     Now you understand the degree of my phobia??!!.. Some could argue THEY don’t exists, it’s just a movie!!.. My lips are zipped on this matter!! We don’t want to upset the invisible-ones who can hear us.do we??   What if just to prove the point, the invisible-one comes around to wake me up –“ HEY!! I’m REAL..Dont believe those people!!! HAHAHA!!!”.. Can you imagine that.. I w...

💕Chapter - 2 It’s another episode of nagging mom and a Cheeky boy.. Introducing Nagging mom - Me, Cheeky Boy – A and Ta - G Its freezing at home these days even with the heater-on and the tiles are just freaking cold.. Me: A! do you mind wearing your home boots..Tiles are too cold dear.. A: <no response> Nagging mom knows its useless to repeat..and walks off --------- in Another room----------- Nagging mom talking to Ta about a recent robbery at her friends place. A is somewhere else playing.. Now he walks in to this room where mom and dad are talking - "STILL no-home-boots-on".. A: what happened? Me: Nothing A: I heard you say something to Ta Me: about what? A: Bad guys came and took stuff from someone place.. Me : Did you hear me say wear your HOME BOOTS!!! A: No!!! you were saying in Indian Language.. You know there are so many Indian languages I don’t understand!!!   Me: No.. I told you in English.. and I wa...

Chapter -1 A was lying on the couch and lazing... while I was sitting next to him and doing “Supposed-to-be-OUR” craft activity <Insert rolling eyes>.. Me: A , please don’t kick me!!! After another 10 kicks and 4 warnings.. Me: A!! I told you 100 times.. stop kicking me!! Just giving least interest in what I am saying.. A: you only said 4 times. Not 100 times!!! I couldn’t keep up with my anger after his clever answer, I gave up and smiled Me: Well, in that case I’m going to act like you. Next time you ask me anything, you have to repeat for at least 10 times before I respond!! A: NOOOO!! Me; Yesss!!! After a while.. A was in the Toilet.. ‘Ma! Im done’..   I heard him, but I didn’t respond.. I just looked at him and he repeated.. Still no response from me.. After few seconds I told him to repeat that for 8 more times..And he did!! Then I responded to his call..  <Yes!! I could be mean sometimes>...

Every one of us has a rulebook that we follow every day for everything (puff!! that’s too many Every in one sentence!!).. Let me explain, in my rule book I have a rule to keep in touch with people I care about, it could be a message /mail/ phone call just to say hello. It could be different for others who does not message/call/mail (not even respond) unless it’s an emergency... it’s completely fine by their rulebook. see what I mean??   There is no right or wrong because everyone’s rulebook is different. Rulebooks are made of rules, which you think its right and you follow them without any guilt. If something doesn’t go well by your rule book, you tend to feel guilty or bad  and try to fix it. Well, sometimes you don’t fix because of e-g-o. In my case, I tend to feel guilty everytime I raise my voice with A. This could be in  every mum's rulebook (Maybe not!!) Basic rules in your rulebook would have been inherited/defined/Influenced from your parents/religion/...

We spent our long weekend with two other friends/families recently in a small beach town near-by. We rented this nice four-bedroom house close to the beach which we hardly visited!! - not that I want to visit in this cold winter weather but if driving past counts as visit then yeah- tick it as been there. But I must agree we had such a wonderful & relaxed family/friends time cooking/watching movies/making up stories/Making fun/most of all having a normal adult conversations after a long time without having to worry about kids. During the whole trip, A hardly wanted us except for few basic things. Most of the time he was self-occupied with his friends playing board games or cards or watching movies. Impressive bit is kids actually took the DVD from its case & worked it out how to play it in the player and sincerely put it back in the case after watching it without us telling or doing it for them. Simple joy of parenting you wouldn’t understan...

Random things from last week .. >>  G asked A to clean up his room, but A kept on playing & refusing to go.. So G made a pretend call to Simba and told Simba to come and take A’s new toys if the room is not clean by that night.. This works all the time trust me..   Listening to this, Cheeky Monkey reacted back to G 'TA !  I don’t think Simba EXISTS in this world’ .. I was sitting next to A, I turned around with a confused look and asked him ‘ what do you mean A ? ’ He was like ‘Well! All those people from the movies, they are NOT real Amma’ .. I was just surprised by his response and asked him ‘ What about Genie from Aladdin? ’. He said ‘ Nope, he doesn’t e xists either’ .. I was like ‘ A!!! , you are breaking my heart now, I was hoping to find that Genie one day’ .   He was like ‘ Heart is inside your body ma, I can’t break it!! ’ with a straight face. They learnt about body parts recently in their Kinder!! But that’s NOT the point!!!   What...