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"Mumma are you happy?" I overheard innocent voice while crossing the road and could not help turning back. Little one was holding her mumma's hand and crossing the road too. She was not looking at me so couldn't catch her expressions. Sayomi was in same class as Aryan.So knew her mother.There was smile on her mother's face.Was it for me or for in reply to Sayomi's question? I was not sure.I smiled too. But was mumma happy? Smile on her face couldn't revealed the answer. Sayomi was too curious to know.She kept repeating "Mumma tell na." We crossed the road. Sayomi got into car from one side.Her mumma took driver's seat and then vanished in few seconds. I was lucky enough to get auto. But "Mumma are you happy?" the unanswered question kept buzzing in my mind. How much marks she must have got? For third grader ,marks that he/she scored .. does that really matter. Good marks bad marks aren't these relative terms.Goo...

Its Day 1 of #21Day lockdown First time something like this happening and its scary. More you follow whatz app and social media more nervous and fearful you get. So probably social distancing should include social media distancing as well When people all over the world are fearing Corona virus , staying home to fight it, this is right time to sit back and introspect and identify fears that we have gathered over time. This one was more difficult than I thought it would be. When I can list 10 secrets , 9 loves ,fears are just 8 so it must be easier. But it was not so and I realised this challenge is going to get tougher as I reach to number one. As we get older some fears that we had as kids just vanish and we unknowingly develop new ones which make us wonder if innocence of childhood makes us bolder. Over weekends watching fear factor makes me ponder how many faces fear can have. Fear of cars, fear of speed, fear of water, fear of reptiles, animals, cockroaches ,height ,elec...

Day 1 Kiddo  >> "मम्मा तुला माहितेय स्पृहाच्या क्लास मध्ये ना आज पावभाजी दिली  Mumma>>Really? wow ! असेल काही त्यांची क्लास अक्टिव्हिटी तुम्ही नव्हती का sprout भेळ बनवली होती  Kiddoहा पण पावभाजी ? I could sense the sheer surprise from his voice. He was not convinced with my answer  Die hard fan of Pavbhaji can smell pavbhaji from any corner in his vicinity. Day 2 Kiddo >>अरे ममा तुला माहितेय का ..काल ना farewell Party होती ४th ची Thats why school ने पावभाजी दिलेली  Mumma>> Wow so next year तुम्हाला पण मिळणार तर पावभाजी स्कूल कडून   Looks like we had this conversation yesterday It’s already a year gone and today is his farewell party and Pav-bhaji time  A week back he gushed in and exclaimed  "Mumma finally day has arrived! No tiffin on Friday for long break .....पावभाजी देणार आम्हाला " Wait was over and he was beaming :) Today morning hour was smooth. Additional update was along w...

With 2020 , Digital declutter is on and here I found this. Its Thursday as well so it qualifies for Throwback ;) Rewind > "This boy just doesn't study" I was complaining to friend of mine. "He is an engineer's son so will study only in Prep leave ;)"He replied. "Let him grow up and take admission to Engineering course and then he will qualify for it" I am not ready to budge and somehow 15 days before exam starts we start our study. When it comes to English literature (I need to admit , I was shXX scared of this word Literature when I heard it first in Std 1st now till std 4th I have somehow digested it.) we do lessons first as it has lot many ques answers...long ..short.. RTC....meanings ..who said to whom etc etc.(If you don't understand these words consider yourself lucky and continue reading :) "Poems are simple.Just one Page and answers are also mostly one liners."Junior has valid point. So me (yes you read ...

With Valentines Day at the corner, this would be the appropriate blog post. So lets get started.... मम्मा ,तुला सगळ्यात जास्त कोण आवडतं? Of course you sweetheart 😍 We have this conversation happening daily at my home and yes no exaggeration here..Its DAILY. Same question,  or may be different version like मम्मा तुला सगळ्यात जास्त मीच आवडतो ना? asked with same intensity every day. My answer is also same but depending on my mental state it length varies like you aryan of course you sweet heart what do you think who would that be? He is my boy Boy whose name starts from A Very sweet handsome intelligent boy. and on and on and on Once I asked little one..you know my answer right and you know that mumma loves you the most still why you asked this daily? हा एकदा तू रागावली होतीस ना तेव्हा तू daddy बोलली होतीस ... so there you go.:) As he grows he would understand the dimensions of love. Love of your parents, grandparents, husband ,wife, friends, cousins,...