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Category: Pregnancy

The seemingly insurmountable peaks and valleys of ‘trying’

I have known forever that I want two children. Friends shake their heads at the living embodiment of a cliché that I am and it is true too; if I had been raised in the West, I am sure my idea of an ideal home would include a white picket fence. So I’ve always had…

Two pink lines!

Well, that’s what this blog was supposed to be called. Two pink lines for that much-awaited (much-dreaded?!) sending-a-shiver-down-your-spine outcome on a bathroom floor that turns your entire life upside down for better or for worse. I got mine more than a year ago, on a rainy August morning, in a test taken sneakily while the…

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Sunday Family Night. It is getting harder and harder to convince the girl to choose to spend time with us over her group of friends. At 5 the pull of the peer group is already proving to be a strong magnet and vacations are when all the kids are going berserk and forgetting even mealtimes in want of a game downstairs. We miss her company so much but we also don't want her to miss out on company her age so what to do? And unfortunately her friends are all owls playing well into the night! We are trying to introduce family night at least thrice a week. One day for games, one for cooking together and one for some dancing, painting etc. We bought this princess themed monopoly hoping to entice her and we had a good round before she heard all the others emerge from their dens and pulled her best sad face. We naturally allowed her to run off, and here we are, the two of us playing princess monopoly together! #togethertimes #summerishere #summervacations #familytime #gamenight #thisisus #raisingrumi #punemoms #puneblogger #parentingblogs #monopoly

When I turned 30, the husband gave me a cd of my favorite songs all sung and recorded by him in a studio. It just overwhelms me to think of the hours he put in sneaking away to a studio in the middle of his work schedule and tiring his already overworked throat! And 'Tu mile Dil khile' is just such a romantic song! Do give it a listen, link is in the bio! #thisisus #thismancansing #gratefulforthehusband #happinessis #thoughtfulpresents

Our German sessions for tots on in full swing. I love to watch my husband in his work mode - how he loses himself in the teaching, how he becomes a child himself while making dog sounds and cat sounds! The kids all seem to be enjoying and while that is the best feedback we can get, what is extremely heartening is to see how they pick up new words with ease and also retain them. Little children do not have too many barriers to learning as they don't get too self-conscious (am I constructing this sentence right? Can I use a better word?) They tend to go with the flow and simply enjoy the process. This is the key to learning anything new; have fun with it, without any pressure and any doubts to its usefulness, application, how well you do etc. Just have fun with newness, with experimentation, with doing something just because it seems like fun! #therockingchair #languagesessionfortoddlers #learninglanguagesthroughstories #learninganewlanguage #foreignlanguagesforchildren #learninganythingnew #storytellingsessionsforkids #storytellingfortots #puneevents #puneblogger #indianparentingblogs #mommyblogger

Rumi is KIND. We watched her at her first gymnastics session the other day and she truly surprised her with her strength, her agility and resilience; I expected her to be exhausted at the end but she persevered and enjoyed every bit. What surprised me was the behavior of some kids, the pushing and jostling, the unkind and very adult barbs, the way they use their words to put other kids down. Do they learn harsh language from other adults at home? When is the first time the seeds of a scarcity mindset are sown? When a child feels that there is only enough love and enough appreciation for one? That competition is much more important than collaboration? I think about these things all the time, very often without satisfactory conclusions. What didn't surprise me one bit was Rumi's kind heart. How she always made room next to her for the excluded child. How she always tried to make peace with the child who had shoved her. How she didn't lose her cool or focus even for a minute as she dealt with all the bullying kids with a sweet smile. I often hear parents say about their kids "I'd rather he / she was the one doing the bullying than be the victim". And I think that though this may seem like the need of the hour in the world today, what is really important is to celebrate your child's soft heart and empathy as a rare gift, a shining diamond in the rough, a beacon of light and love that is exactly what the world needs today. Celebrate the refusal to hit back, the sweetness, the forgiving heart. Celebrate kindness, we need it more than ever. #celebrateyourchild #raisingrumi #puneblogger #punemoms #indianparentingblogs #rumiisjoy

The very first mango of the season. Eaten whole, peeled. Unparalleled, pure joy, announcing with stamping feet 'Summer is here'. #mangoseasonishere #summervacations #summerishere

Gardening, coloring and more recently knitting are what I call 'happy self-discoveries of a SAHM'. There was no doubt that I wanted to stay at home with Rumi once she was born. I didn't have an exciting career or a job that I would miss terribly so it seemed like an easy straightforward choice and luckily I discovered that being her primary caregiver excited me and fulfilled me in a way that nothing ever had. At home I discovered new things that I had not tried my hand at earlier. I got the time to cook family recipes and hunt for gorgeous wooden toys. And I found that I liked plants, though I had not paid much attention to them earlier. I liked the smell of earth. I liked watching new buds coming up. I liked to do away with the whiteflies with a satisfying squirt of neem oil. And I discovered more about the plants I like. All the indigenous varieties I saw in my Ajji's backyard - the kadipatta, the indian gulab, the mogra, the raatrani. I fell in love with the citrus plants, their aesthetically pleasing leaves, the pretty white flower. I threw in tulsi plants and aloe for medicine and for prosperity. And our balcony garden is so me! I like to let it run a little wild and rarely prune. I like to work with my own hands, digging and repotting, getting scratched and feeling exhausted but oh-so-satisfied. I like to use good old earthen pots that we can color with brick-red 'kaav' once a year during Diwali. Slowly and steadily, our balcony has become such a refreshing green corner! And yes I do sometimes sit on the floor and pretend that I'm in the secret garden. #theseareafewofmyfavoritethings #blissedout #thingstodowithyourtot #happinessis #myhappyplace #mybalconygarden #myplants #greenthumb #mommyblogger #raisingrumi #SAHM #Sahmthings

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