Nadi’s birth-day: Part 1 (the night before)

I should be sleeping right now but I can’t. I keep trying to get my head around the fact that last year at this time, k and I were at the hospital, trying to heed the doctor’s advice to “relax and get a good night’s sleep”, all the while wondering how they expected us to [...]

new tricks.

Today, after k left for work, Nadi and I were doing our usual routine of teeth brushing, changing, shutting off bathroom lights, when he suddenly started with his “uhhh, uhhh” and pushing in a particular direction ( a new thing he’s learnt to show what he wants next). I picked up his toothbrush. No. The [...]

matter of actual fact- (a real conversation).

me (watching Nadi play on the floor): Mama? Nadi is the most adorable, the best, cutest and most janoo baby in the world na?”
mom (without even glancing up at me): Of course.

to my mom, with war and much much love.

Even though I have been standing in my mom’s shoes for only a year as yet, I can see it probably started long ago, when simple things like she wanting to hold my hand but me wanting to walk it solo were the very beginnings of the rebellion that was to last us a lifetime.
Being the [...]