six months, thirty years.

People said the first six months would be the most difficult. That they would crawl by and the adjustments would be hard. And those everyone unanimously mentioned  right after, how 6 months plus would be a “really fun age”. Sometimes I cannot believe we have had Naddu for only six months- it feels like we have known him [...]

Naddu Paddu by the Sea

On Sunday Nov 18, 2007, I introduced Naddu to the sea. He cocked his head smiling, listening to sound of the waves, but then when I dipped his feet in the water and a small wave washed over them, sandying his toes, he let out an angry torrent of baby babble at the sea for daring [...]

Airborne.

“Give him pheneregan for the flight,” suggested someone.
“Sit in the back so you don’t distrub too many people” said another.
“Keep him slightly overfed so he stays asleep mostly” tells me yet another.
You can ask for advice and plan all you like- but things with babies have a way of happening exactly as they have to. [...]

aaj kal.

A friend asked me what I am upto these days. In the pause before I answered, a squillion answers regarding baby, work, job decisions, upcoming weddings, personal projects on hold and god knows what else rushed through my head and I discarded each of them before casually answering, “Oh nothing much, just momming about.”

One of Those People- a confession.

To my extreme discredit, I had always been one of those people who looked at screaming kids on the plane and blamed the parents. It was beyond my understanding why it was acceptable behaviour for a child to scream throughout the flight while the parents, with their practiced sense of denail would calmly keep reading/eating/sleeping, and [...]

critical appraisals.

I don’t claim to have years of experience as a wife or mother. Both are fairly new job descriptions for me, and I am still stumbling along, trying to take each day as it comes (my sisters would laugh right about now at my words) trying not to let the highs make me smug or [...]