Fashion is innate

Finally i have come to believe that fashion sense, though cultivated, can be innate as well and those kids are just super at fashion, just by themselves.

kathaa kathayaam kaaranamaam

There are many Malayalam and tamil phrases that I have a vague memory of. The following is one of them

kathaa kathayaam kaaranamaam 

I only knew the starting of this phrase

finally got the ending.. woohoo..

kaaranathaaal oru toranamaam..

kathaa kathayaam kaaranamaam kaaranathaaal oru toranamaam..

Out of the three children i have, one turned out to be normal. She pushes my buttons instantly and my anger raises spontaneously, she teaches me I am but a normal person and not the extraordinary mother I want to be.

God has sent her to me, to show that grace when shown at ordinary situations is but ordinary and grace when shown under pressure is anything but ordinary

Thank you God, for sending me to her, to challenge me constantly, to defy me and to make me into a stronger, kinder, gentler and firmer person that i wish to be

Thank you Lord, you always look upon me, smile at me, and keep pushing my envelopes so I never have to have a dull moment in my life

Please look upon me, forever

with lots of love Gurudev

A's mom

the funny thing about writing is, you are empty when you begin with, you walk in with trepidation wanting to write but nothing to write, but you start to write, and then comes the writing.

its funny, isn't it

i do want to write the review for SOT, but I hold that thought in a bubble of trepidation, waiting for it to burst and inspiration to gush, but if i wait, i will be waiting, it is me who has to burst the bubble, take the first step, the fatal step towards writing.

i have deeply failed as a mother, to teach the mother tongue to her kids. what more satisfying, primal and urgent than speaking in one's own tongue. I have to do this, there is no choice, it is not late
Mother Tongue, here i come

Even Amrita knows to write a story. she has characters, they get into trouble and then she saves them.
she is the cutest. Have you seen her stories, they are rocking !!

i have to ask her to write more

and her titles are just amazing. she is one hell of a story teller.

i need to ask her to write more stories for me.

even if one of my child na, is writing stories, i would love it, and one singing and one doing both ;)

love love love

nothing can come between my children and me. When they are there, all my time is for them. Let there not be a single ambiguity in that. Only when you want to do something else, do you get angry with them and yourself. Let there be no ambiguity. They are the precious threads in my life that i weave upon. without them, there is no me, till they get out of this house.