Things I wish for.

Nadi turned 18 months old. A whole year and half. I still can’t get my head around th efact that I am an honest to goodness mom much less than my baby is now a toddler…who walks, kinda talks (ok, communicates!) and well…toddles all day long. There is so much I want for him that [...]

daily tidbit 14

There is a nip in the air today and our high ceilinged apartment tends to stay chillier through the day so I hurried with Nadi’s shower and plonked him infront of the fan hearter to change. Socks are the new thing since he obviously doesn’t remember them from last year. Lunch warmed, I brought it and said, [...]

laying down lines

“How does it happen,” Hope Edelman asks in her essay, The Myth of Co-parenting, “that even today, in this post-second wave, post superwoman dual income society we are supposed to live in, the mother nearly always becomes the primary parent, even when she, too, works full time- the one who meets most or all the [...]

the hoo haas and wait-tills of life

Have you noticed how, no matter what stage of life you are at- people derive great loads of satisfaction in  telling you that the stage ahead is a killer? I remember in my A levels, the kids who were already in college would always make this big groaning moaning big deal about college work an life. And [...]

children of today.

This is the day and age of a TV channel specifically for babies under one. Of colourful branded toys shaped like cells and laptops with our kids still preferring the shiny silver real ones. Lets face it- this is the agewhen kids know how to work remotes before they know how to stack blocks. So [...]