right things feel good.

Words that clicked from the blog that got me blogging in the first place,
“trust the gut. haven’t we heard that one before. new moms become obsessed with ‘doing the right thing’, and yet ‘the right thing’ is some bleary object in the distance that you cannot quite identify because it is being concealed by all of [...]

dogs and children…not allowed?

One of my personal favourite things to crib about has always been a nice evening out for dinner with friends and being seated at a table where the table next to us has kids on it. And mind you, not just kids, but rip-roaring. ruckus-creating, ill mannered loud kids. Motherhood, people around me assumed, would mellow me down [...]

when blogs collide?

Last night I had Hinamommy and her family over for dinner. We met for the first time last summer a few weeks after Nadi and Ayzah were born and were relieved to find each other “not freaky”. This time round we decided to get the husbands to meet. “So what do you think, finally meeting a blog [...]

The Search for Giant Squid.

Kat asked me how I knew that we were ready to go the baby way. (And for a second here, for the sake of finding an answer to this question, let’s pretend (*we* are actually the ones in control.) I had no words other than the inane all-ambiguous, “You Just Know.“
But I am reading this book [...]

Friends of a-mother kind.

Your friends can love you and listen to you but sometimes only a friend who is a mom gets what you are actually saying.

Small Small Happinesses? (chhoti chhoti khushiyan)

So a couple of weeks ago, Nadi started going to sleep around 10pm for the night, without waking all the way till Fajr. (insert dance of joy here). The first time it happened, k and I just sat there waiting for the requisite 2 hours feed call. It never happened. The next night, the same thing happened. In [...]