renewing wows.

I love weddings of close people because it affords you the opportunity to really get up close and personal with your own reasons for havng married the person you married. You move quietly into an analytical mode, watching the proceedings with an unerring eye, comparing subliminally to how things were at your time, what you felt, [...]

a bad mommy day

There is no such thing as a perfect mother. There can’t be for motherhood is as strange scary alien state where n matter how comfortable and experienced you are one minute, you are as confused and a novice the next. There are good days and bad days. Situations, feelings and emotions are thrown at you [...]

my baby’s first wedding

So many things in life have such a peculiar way of working out. When I found out I was expecting back in October, the first thing k and I did was to do a quick calculation of the birth date- to see how badly it would clash with m’s weddiing. Fortunately for us all, the [...]

two down- m ki shaadi

It’s two years later and so many things are so different. And yet as m’s wedding week starts, I realize that so many things are exactly the same as well. It’s one sister getting married and the other two trying their utmost best to make sure it is the most special time of her life yet. [...]

beauty is in the eye of the mom.

I have always been of the school of though that “all kids are not cute”, much to the chagrin of some friends whose maternal instincts threaten to overpower them senseless in the presence of any toddler, cute or not. I just haven’t ever been the sort. I don’t think all kids are born cute.  Sorry [...]