tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25213035108973728952012-01-26T08:44:15.719-08:00The riddle of being a parent...Veenoreply@blogger.comBlogger51100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2521303510897372895.post-70133427135854596182007-05-07T12:29:00.001-07:002007-05-07T12:42:20.127-07:00

We spent the weekend moving our stuff to our new apartment. In between the pain of doing so and lamenting the foolishness of hording hazaar stuff when basically living a nomadic life, we came across the DVD for Hanuman that we had picked last year in India. I bought it with the intention of watching it with Aayush and somehow never got around to doing it. The DVD made a reappearance during the

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I have heard it many times before and I do not get it. People saying they resented their mom going to work. My mom was a working Mom. So everytime I hear something like that, I go through my entire childhood as best as I can to find any moment that I felt the same thing and I never come up with any. I remember our birthday parties, which she planned, for which she cooked up a storm in the morning

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Much as we prefer that the kids speak ‘konkani’ our mother tongue at home, we quite enjoy the American-isms they bring to the conversation.Some of the recent additions to his vocabulary,“It’s Trash” not garbage, not dustbin"I made a Mess" Everything from cluttered toys, to food drippings on his clothes is a 'mess'“Hi-Fi” after everything he does, whether going to the bathroom by himself,

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Bee of jugalbandi.info has written an excellent piece titled 'Cooking and Chromosomes'। I wrote this piece as a comment to her post, but it turned out to be too long। So, decided to park it here...---------------------------------------------------------------------------------My husband gets a lots of comments like "You are lucky to have a wife who is career-oriented". These are, as you might

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"Finish you dinner, sweety"{No response}"Finsh your dinner, Aayush"{No response}"Fin-ish your Dinner, AA-yush"{Awarded with bland look}"Finish your dinner or else.."{Bland look, again}"Finish your dinner or else I will take you to doctor for more shots"{huh! you are getting desperate , mom}"Finsh your Dinner and I will put your favorite DVD on"{I am not falling for that}"Finish your dinner and I

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