I will never buy suede chappals again and so should you not 

They are smooth velvety slick that your feet keep slipping out. 

Olive Oil, Honey & Egg Yolk Facial Mask

We take eggs for breakfast and i have tons of yolk left. 

yesterday i mixed it with curd and left it on my hair. 

Today I wanted to do something different and came across this mask.

http://youthfuleating.blogspot.in/2012/01/olive-oil-honey-egg-yolk-facial-mask.html

 Separate one egg  - using only the yolk - in a small bowl or ramekin

2.)  Add 1 teaspoon of honey and 1 teaspoon of olive oil

3.)  Mix until combined and smooth;  apply to a clean face.  Rest with it on your face for about 15 minutes then rinse with warm water.  I like to do this mask right before a shower because it can get kind of sticky and hard to get out of your hair. 

   Your skin will be well-moisturized, smooth and glowing.  You can store the extra mask in the refrigerator for about a week or so and use it as often as you like.

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