yay!! 9 more days left for my vacation. I'm yet to do my shopping. yet to get the visas from Indian consulate..well I have to justify me.."The Procrastinator" why do something today when it can be done tomorrow..but honestly I have so much work at work that it holds true if I say I forget to breathe sometimes..I have been looking forward for this vacation for a long time..I have a wedding to attend..this a wedding I'm attending first time after mine ..excited about the opportunity to wear saris that are not touched after I wore them for my wedding..I'm so much tempted to get new ones but I know it is going to be a waste of money..but oh boy do I wish that I 'd got married now looking all the new kinds and varieties especially designed for the bride to be :(

Pet or Baby you choose it..

The kids have been asking us to buy them a pet ... a dog..a cat or fishes anything and I used to joke back to them that I already have 2 puppies to take care and I cannot have 1 more..they did not understand my statement completely initially and would ask me back "but where are the puppies?" and then after a while when they started to understand what I really meant they would say "No, but we want real puppies to play with" I told them that when they both are ready to take the responsibility of taking care of the pet I would buy them. Also of late they have been seeing new babies born..siblings to their friends(guess 5 years is an age mark to go for the second one among desis here) and they started asking questions like why there is no baby coming to our home for which me and M would explain that its up to God to present families with a baby and so far they seem to take that message well. This morning I happen to drop them at their school since M had some early morning meetings..I think Divya had spotted a car with a dog in it sticking its head out...while I was seriously listening to the gas prices...weather and traffic on the radio she suddenly and fiercely asked me "Amma, I want a pet or a baby to play with..I'm asking for so long...can we go get it this week end" I was totally taken offgaurd and struggled hard to suppress my laughter and asked her to direct the question at her dad....

Pointy and Scratchy things

After long, long, long..time I took the kids out for the week end..M had a class and I called my friend whose daughter is of same age as the twins..it so happened that she was also looking for a way to mange her daughter that week end as her husband had an exam..so everything worked out and we planned to go for a movie and lunch afterwards. We watched KungFu Panda...and it was too good..of course its the usual kids formula but the way it was animated even made the adults sitting there to enjoy a lot..Sandhya and my friends daughter enjoyed it too well that sometimes we have to Shhhhh....them down to avoid heads turning in our direction..Divya was very quiet ..except for occasional standing up from the seat and jumping back in as the seat folded in with her in it. Later they had like 2 ice pops and a milk shake on top of that caused Sandhya to start on the soar throat episode...she was feverish and tired at the end of the day...next day morning she was grumpy and didn't want to have any breakfast, and said she had some pointy and scratchy things in her throat..:) I coudn't help laughing at the way she described ...well thats exactly the way it feels...but then will it stop her to have more ice creams..nah..since its summer a big bucket of ice cream occupies the freezer as usual and knowing that ice cream is sitting right there in the freezer she was like "Can I have just 1 scoop of ice cream .." when I warned her that she already had pointy and scratchy things she retorted back with this logic.."amma, when I eat the ice cream, since its smooth and slippery all the grems will stick to it and go to my tummy when I swallow the ice cream and will come out in my poop tomorrow and I will not have pain in my throat so you have to give ice cream.."..uhhh...ummm... "NO" this was all I could say using my granted "Amma" authority (which I use often when I don't have the patience to explain or when I just get egoistic and decide that they "have" to listen to what I say) .. I'm still scrambling to find a good answer to oppose her logic and make her agree to what I say.. which is never going to happen :)