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Turning Five and becoming a Beeeg Boy

07 Friday Dec 2012

Posted by monikamanchanda in Parenting, personal

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family, lessons from parenting, motherhood, Ojas, parenting, personal

Dear Ojas,

Yes so my child, the brat, the prince.. yes you turn 5 today. Before I get into other details, can someone explain how did this happen? Where did the time fly? Wasn’t it just yesterday that I remember seeing those two lines on the pregnancy test and first jumping in joy and then sitting down and crying because I couldn’t believe it was true. Wasn’t it just yesterday when I went for my first ever scan all scared and tensed, wasn’t it just yesterday when I saw you the first time on that ultrasound screen your smart dad trying to see from all angles if he can figure out the gender 😉 Wasn’t it just yesterday that I went through the most traumatic night of my life when we were told that we have lost you and wasn’t it just yesterday that we finally held you in our hands at a full term contrary to what every doctor predicted, wasn’t it just yesterday my child? It certainly feels like that

Now anyone can see how you have grown in the last 5 years, from a tiny infant to when you started crawling to walking to talking (phew that is when my peace vanished :P), you started going to school and started learning to think logically, articulate and observe a lot of things, you started to fall in love with cars and bikes and ATV’s and that is when dada became the hero of your life and the focus from mumma started to move a bit (and yes your dad is right I am jealous 😉 ), you started to begin being independent and I know that this is just a start. I have seen you grown leaps and bounds in the past 5 years and I think everyone around has, however today I want to thank you for how you have helped me grow in the past years. Grow as a mother, grow as a human being, grow as a feminist, grow as a cook, grow in every part of my life.

You came in my life a little more than 5 years ago and the first thing you taught me was fear and the power of prayers. I have always been the one who used to think everything is in your hands, you can make and break your own life but when I first felt you inside me I knew the power of prayers, I don’t know how but the mind automatically wanted to reach out to the one above and pray for you, you taught me what a strong emotion fear could be and how fear of losing ones dear one can make you do anything even if means being confined in bed for 9 months, even if it means praying everyday, multiple times during those 9 months.

When I held you for the first time in my hands, you taught me what delicate and precious means. You taught me what unconditional love is but most importantly you taught me that being dependent on someone you love isn’t really a bad thing, you taught me that its ok to be looked after sometimes and that you need it badly sometimes.

While struggling with those initial days of breastfeeding problems, PPD, colic you taught me patience and that a mom can never have enough of it, it’s a different matter all together that now you test it everyday 😉

When you fell sick for the first time you taught me the real meaning of the phrase “Doctors are God” and I am sure every mom will agree with me on that, till then doctors were just people to me, people with fancy degrees. However that day he became a God to me.

When you were trying to learn to walk, falling 100 times a day but getting up again and trying, crying not when you fell but crying if we tried to help you get up, child then you taught me perseverance

When I shouted and screamed at you the first time because I was too stressed, too bogged up by cooking, cleaning, feeding and changing you and you looked at me with those eyes that silently said “mumma calm down” you taught me that how much important ME time is for everyone in this world, whether it’s from you or your dad… you taught me that I function well after my timeout 🙂

When you became a fussy eater, refusing every thing we put on plate, you taught me to be creative in the kitchen and improve my skills (yes yes I know its a way to keep my frustrations away but god knows all mum needs loads of them :))

When you went on the stage for the first time, you taught me what pride really means. Even if you didn’t do any of the steps that were taught but still I had my heart swelling in pride and eyes wet with tears.

Last but not the least when you test my patience and be stern on what you want, walk away from me and get into your room angry and upset. When you want the logic and clarification of everything I tell you. You taught me a lesson that every parent needs to learn and eventually does learn. You taught me what I did to my parents and what goes around always comes back 😉 because sometimes my dear child I can see so much of myself in you that it frightens me

Happy 5th Birthday my child, a beeeeg boy like you call yourself now and yes I know you want three cakes I am working on it, yet again learning something hopefully

Loads of love

Mumma

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Day 9 : WW29 : Somewhere in a Delhi park

09 Wednesday Feb 2011

Posted by monikamanchanda in Project 365

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family, massi and bhanja, Ojas, photography, picture, project 365, somewhere in a delhi park

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Camping, Resolutions and more

04 Tuesday Jan 2011

Posted by monikamanchanda in personal

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2011, camping, family, fun, N, new year eve, Ojas, resolutions

So we went camping on new year eve, among all the confusions and a plan of finally being at home with 2-3 friends turned into a last minute camping plan… a new tent was bought, the food packed… multiple calls made to various people coming and off we went… only hitch was that I was worried as this was Ojas’s first camping and there was no other kid to accompany him but still we went starting me cursing the friend who made this last minute plan but secretly looking forward to it and slowly getting into the groove…

We went to a friend friends farmhouse some 50Kms ahead of Hosur and located in undulating plains with a few rocky hills around, it was just lovely…

The car heading to the camping spot

We reached there just before sunset, thanks to the fast driving of the friend and the rock solid hugging to ground Fortuner that he had…. and got started to pitch the tents and what fun it was…everyone was excited including ojas infact he was the most excited one

And got to what we do the best… making chai 😛 its simply not possible to not have chai when me, V and M are around 😉

and like my header says nothing tastes better than chai made on a chulha

After the chai we just settled down with some bonfire, potatoes and onions roasting in it, some drinks and singing along for fun… inbetween trying to get Ojas entertained… and what fun it was… heating the food we carried around the bonfire wrapped in silver foil… and at 12 happy new years were said to each other and we all happily slept tucked inside our sleeping bags…

And waking up to birds chirping and a lovely fog outside away from civilization I don’t think we could have started the decade in a better way ofcourse there was chai which was missing and we quickly corrected it by making a fresh cup again 😀

 

the morning cup of chai on chulha

We did a small walk/trek post the chai, had bread cheese bhujiya sandwich for breakfast and started back, all in all a very very fine new year eve and the first day of the decade… and I was so glad my son enjoyed camping…  So how was your new year eve, what did u do? partied or chilled out

Last week I also met Meira who was in Bangalore for a day along with Shruti and the famous TS… now I have met Meira before and I love her but trust me guys TS is cooler than she potrays him on the blog 😉 Shruti also brought along with her the gifts that I won on 400th post giveway… thank u darling they are lovely

 

penstand, chumbak playing cards, chumbak bookmarks and a lovely pair of earrings

and shruti ojas decided to fulfill ur wishes by wearing the flower 😉

handmade flower ofcourse by Shruti

And now to the most important part of the post… the resolutions… I know its rather late in the new year (4 days are long no?) to write this but I just didnt get the time to do it before… So the year 2011 has been declared as a year of health and love by me… so there are top 2 resolutions are

  • Spend quality time with N and with O and also together as a family : sounds funny but yes after Ojas we really never get around to spend so much time as a couple as we would like to… so now we have decided we will have a date every week on any of the weekday nights… a late night movie.. a quite dinner, a drink on the terrace anything without ojas ofcourse 😉 and I am dedicating Friday lunch or evening coffee with my date with the younger man i.e ojas 🙂 and weekend is family time… no work… no being online (atleast I am gonna try and limit the time to checking tweets on phone once in a while only)
  • Health, Health, Health :  This ofcourse includes lose weigh but also includes much more.. the BP, the reflux, the acidity, the stamina, the dammed knee, the neck and the overall fitness. This will be year with focus on health thru and thru

So what are your new year resolutions? And generally how have u been folks? Long time no?

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Tanned and Back

27 Tuesday Apr 2010

Posted by monikamanchanda in fun

≈ 30 Comments

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cousin, family, fun, memories, Ojas, summer vacations

Back from the small disapperaing act I did on the blog courtsey the lappy not working well and being busy at home… not that anyone noticed and missed me 😦 Warning to self *Update your blog more regularly else people will totally forget u and that is the biggest nightmare of a blogger*

And tanned yeah that is how I look right now… Tanned…Before you guys also ask me “what u went to Goa? ” let me tell you I hate that question right now… No I didnt and getting that question asked by some many people is not at all fun I tell u 😦 I want to go to GOA now

So how the tan u ask, its a result of 3 mad kids that dragged me to the pool everyday at 12 noon in blaring sun for the past 5 days and refused to come out of the water before an hour…

and yeah any recommendations for tan removing creams are most welcome 😉

My sil’s kids were with us for the past 5 days spending some part of their summer vacations with us and needless to say we all had lots of fun… The days were filled with swimming, making block towers longer than our own height, moudling clay and making burgers with them, finding hanuman in  “”Where is Hanuman” book, fighting and yeah cooking dish after dish on demand 🙂 and the evenings spent playing monopoly with the main motive being that the other person should not win… if we lose its ok 😉

Anything with kids is fun isn’t it… we also took them bowling and go karting one day and it was bindaas fun… Ojas also enjoyed their stay so much that since yesterday night he has been asking where is didi? where is bhaiya?

These 5 days just took me back in time to my summer vacations when I was kid, how we used to be parked in badi mummy’s (my nani) house permanently with lots of cousins… no sun used to bother us and how much we used to play… those were the days… the days where games were endless and food cooked by badi mummy in abudance…

It was so heart warming to see ojas enjoy with his cousins as much as we did with ours… Whoever said that seeing ur kid grow up is like living a second childhood was indeed right… 🙂

But gosh in all that excitment I really forgot that I am not a 11 yr old anymore and I do get tired 😉 right now my state is like a zoombie with every part of my body aching who just needs to sleep and rest and needless of say its khicdi for lunch today

So how are your summer vacations going? Wanna share some memory from your childhood?

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A perfect Sunday and Some votes

22 Monday Mar 2010

Posted by monikamanchanda in blogging, fun, This and that, travel

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What a Sunday I had yesterday… A day which starts with a yummilicous breakfast of palak-methi poori’s with aalo sabzi, pindi chole, raita and kheer can hardly go wrong… can it 😉 and anyone who dare reminds me of my dieting and weightloss plan here can be shot dead… so beware

Are u guys jealous enough or should I tell u what I did post that too 😀 😀 😀 I am all too excited because we took for his first ever go karting and man he enjoyed it a lot if not more than us, he surely enjoyed as much… thats N and him on a double cart… he sat through grinning for 4 laps all by himself and looked so damn adorable in that small helmet

and then we did what should be done on a hot sunday afternoon… swimming followed by beer and which was followed by Karthik Calling Karthik… I enjoyed the movie but it left me a disturbed, a little resltess but I think they have handled the subject well and Farhan as usual is rocking in the movie.

I wish I had more of such Sunday’s…. it was total bliss…

And now to spread the word and ask for the favor 😉 Avante Blog Awards voting has started and I am thrilled that I have been nominated in certain categories… though I am sad that none of the posts actually made it but heck as of now I will celebrate the nominations 😉 needless to say I need your love, support and votes 😀

So go click on the following categories and vote………

The Most Beautiful Header - Ojas's Blog

Most Intersting Sidebar

Most Disciplined Blogger

And the one that makes me the most proud… with a handful of posts written by N… the best travel post 😀 😀

The Best Travel Post - Munnar by N

What are u waiting for now go vote 😀

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Serenity

08 Tuesday Sep 2009

Posted by monikamanchanda in 1, vacation

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family, fun, pics, vacation, village

Ok so here is the Back to Roots post… A brief of the trip we took the village recently…A Picture Essay I would say 😀

Before Starting from home, dont miss the dude’s style 😀

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On Roadside and more

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Food and more… specially for u guys… hitchy

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Masti @CCD

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The water bodies around the road, always have a calming effect… add to the charm of the road

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Finally reached the village, Ojas enjoying the house totally…. I love the houses in the village

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And we can enjoy too right, the tender coconut water directly from the trees and drunk straight was divine.. all scared me though that it will stain the dress…

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And then the walk to the fields begin, total bliss

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and I get space what else do I need 😀

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the tree climber 🙂

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In and around the house… gorgeous place I tell u and dont miss the brat trying to find the treasure in that age old wardrobe

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and some lovely pottery on the way back, each time I go there I pick up some… this time I picked up the pink and the blue one and no guys U cant understand this

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Everytime I go to the village, I am so happy and I dont want to come back at all…N’s village is the first association I ever had with a village… considering mom had been completely brought up in Delhi and dad moved to Delhi while he was in college and before that too was in Jallandhur which is by no means a village , only thing that made me a little sad this time was to see the empty fields… Granny can no more manage the farm and none of us are doing anything about it,… Sigh!!!

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This Rakhi I remember

05 Wednesday Aug 2009

Posted by monikamanchanda in festivals, personal

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cousins, family, festivals, personal, raksha bandhan, school

My childhood… the growing up years and the rakhi days…

We are three sisters so technically there has never been a rakhi festival for us… but I still have fond memories of this  festival as growing up…

For me raksha bandhan

is the time for get togethers and the cousins ganging up to have loads of fun while the elders are gossiping

is the time when a yummy kheer would be made my badi mummy, the taste of which still lingers in my mouth… no one has been able to match that benchmark of kheer for me…i miss u badu mummy too much

is the time when we would look forward to the gifts and the money collected by tying rakhi to all cousins and then decide what is that we want to buy using that

is the time when one day before rakhi would be spent in school in a competitioon on which girl tied more rakhis and which boy got most…. and yes needless to say it was just till 6th or 7th 🙂

is the time when all girls would compete to get rakhi tied to the most popular boy and all girls would compete to get rakhi tied by the most popular girl

is the time when hours would be spent selecting rakhi and then later the archies cards to go with them

sigh i miss all this

Happy Raksha Bandhan to u all…

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hot tea under a tree (post no 31)

03 Wednesday Jun 2009

Posted by monikamanchanda in NaBloPoMo

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Abc Wednesday, ABC Wednesday round4, family, hubby, NaBloPoMo, Ojas, tea, trees

Its time for ABC Wednesday again and this time its T….

So T is for Tea… I think I have mentioned this before here too that how addicted I am to my morning cup of tea… cant get to open my eyes without it…

And how I enjoy my morning tea with N and Ojas in the balcony… the feeling is contentment

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T is also for trees, something I think all of should understand the importance of…. I think tress are the tonly things that can save mother earth

Both me and N love trees and this is how the front of my house looks like from my terrace

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PS: I tried to take a panaroma but I think there is a slight overlap will try and replace the pic….

and this is how my street looks like from the terrace

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I think I am extremely lucky to be living in a place that is so green…. and U can see here it becomes colorful in spring

Me and N have also taken a pledge that as long as possible we will plant a tree on each of Ojas bday

This is the one we planted for his birth (a little late actually understandable isnt it)

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and this for his 1st birthday

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PS: And this is the last post of my blog-a-thon but celebration is another post

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Delighted

03 Tuesday Mar 2009

Posted by monikamanchanda in This and that

≈ 16 Comments

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family, homemaking, maid issues

Ok by now u all know that my life kind of revolves around my maid…

After this post I am delighted to let u know that my maid who was supposed to come back on 7th seeing my circumstances actually returned today…

She has won me for life… God bless her…

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