the story of us.

When people ask how we met, we always say “at work”. It’s the most concise answer to a story that took about three years to reach its conclusion- us getting married. Truth is he did a double take when he saw me the first time. Yes, I love this part of the story. Hahaha. He [...]

daily tidbit 7

My almost 14 month seems to be ready for school- about a year too early!

daily tidbit 6

Walking has its advantages as anyone who has that talent will tell you. As of late, becoming more mobile than ever before, Nadi has taken it upon himself to move objects from point D to point X in the house at any given chance. His favourite of course are the buckets, from his tiny red one he [...]

judge thy partner

 

I think one of the big tests of love is religion, then perhaps distance, differences can be next, then there is pregnancy before the biggest test of them all- parenting.
Only after having a baby together can you look back and regard early couple marriage with its “issues” of space and identity with almost laughable derision. What was love, [...]

affirmations.

K’s company has launched their annual Mango campaign. He was telling me about a particularly upset customer today who was not happy with the size of the fruits being sent and was quite rude about it. Must be so tiring to have to deal with customer complaints, I commented. He said yes especially for the [...]

daily tidbit 5

“Makeup? What makeup, Momma? I didn’t see anything.”
Every day is bringing new discoveries for Nadi as his world grows larger and more exciting. However, being the focused explorer he is, he tends to go after one thing a day, chasing it till he has had his own good time with it, figuring it inside out [...]

blog off.

Some time ago I came across a blogger- she/he/it prefers to remain anonymous and was going around on some of the mommy blogs trashing everything they wrote- calling them holier-than-thou mommies who thought “raising their einstein kid is some kind of rocket science the way they go about it” and generally was rude, condescending, silly, and very limited [...]

good baby, bad baby, my baby

When people ask me if Nadi is a good baby, I never know what to say. What exactly is a good baby? I wonder. One who is always smiling? (HAHA.) One who is not too much trouble? (Wouldn’t he not be a baby that way?) One who doesn’t cry (I would be worried)…but I always [...]