Mission accomplished

5.45 am. It is already 15 mts past from when the alarm went off. I watch the clock next to my bed and a voice in my head starts off..urging me to get up, its getting late but my body does not want to cooperate, I close my eyes to catch few more mts of sleep ...again I open my eyes to see 5 mts gone by just like that, 5.50 am, the voice in my head explodes, so I drag myself out of the bed. Once in the shower I remember I had to sign off the kid's home work and I was running through other lists of things that needs to be done today, personal errands and work and then I heard a knock on the bathroom door and heard Divya call me..It must be only 6 am now, its too early for her ...may be she wanted to use the toilet, I think,..may be she is desperate.."go..run to the other bathroom" I scream from inside the shower.."No I want to tell you something"..now I hear her shouting with her mouth stuck to the door hinge..I was confused now, I stop the shower and crack open the door a bit and peek out to see two little heads standing there rubbing there eyes..Whats the matter? why are you both up so early I ask.."Happy B'day ma.." "Happy b'day to you.." saying this they ran back to their beds...sweet...but of course they did not remember it on their own, they are not aware of the date of the month yet. After 9 years of nagging and whining I'm happy to say that Mani remembered it for the first time before me letting him know...

Language convinience..

After I started blogging there is this thread running at the background of my mind as I go through my day and noting to myself "oh I have to blog this.." but lack of time to properly sit down and type the contents hit me on the face and by the time I get around or force myself to post something I lose the steam of what I initially had in my mind.Last week I volunteered for book reading at Sandhya's class. Public school system here encourages high parental involvement and with my work and commute I was never able to do it to my satisfaction, and so when they called for this book reading thing I was only eager to participate. I made her choose a book from home which I can read for a group of kids from her class. Sandhya was part of the first group that came to me. She was prmptly showing off to other kids "hey-my-mom-is-here" excitement chatting non-stop, talking about the book, about me and what not. After a while it was getting uncontrollable..she was laughing too loud and interrupting me constantly which made other kids to also distract and I at the other end smiling and telling her nicely to stop so I can go ahead with reading with all the patience I had. At one point she stretched her leg and tried to lie down on the floor with her hand propped up....this is it I thought..but realizing my environment where I'm supposed to not loose my cool, for a second I was on the verge of taking off from the location as fast as I can..hmm.. you won't know how I empathized with the Kinder teachers..in fact all of them in teaching profession at that moment, I sternly and slowly said this with a big smile still on my face " Sandhya, udhai venuamaa?" (which apparently translates to "do you need a spank") haa...that did the trick and the other kids around her did not have a clue what I said and was I relieved when I came to work and sat at my desk..you bet.