Sunday, April 26, 2015

US(in)A - Part 1

Recently i was reading an article on 20 things to do before you are thirty out of those one was -Keep a journal because  “You WILL forget more of your precious memories that you’ll remember, - Quora user "

What this user said is so true, the prime reason i started blogging was because me wanted to write down all small… big memories of my day to day life so that one day when i will be an old  cranky granny i could read my blog and remember the gone times all over again.


Its been months that i have updated my blog (the usual sad sorry) but nevertheless better late than never!!

PS: Hubby and BIL were able to ‘plan’ and execute Goa trip well

Finally..the eagerly anticipated …… …… much awaited trip to my sister and sister-in-law (SIL) was executed by hubby and me.  We met our nieces after very loooongish time, who btw have changed soo soo much. This trip was special all the more because we met our nephew for the very first time!!!

It was short and sweet trip with me and hubby taking whopish 16days of leave of absence from our respective offices.

This trip was special for one more reason -I had been warned, samjaofyed , advised, requested and god knows what that I should NOT fight with my elder sis. Well it took a great deal of determination that I subdued my will to NOT fight with her. Which btw is a miracle in 30yrs of my existence with her as we can manage to fight while having most polite of conversations. Ma has always been baffled that on what things we could fight.

Sample this ::::

A very long time ago (indeed) when my sis use to be a little girl and I was a little more little than her, me and she use to fight about anything and everything. So when ma got us a pair of “identical” trousers, she heard us fighting ….bewildered she asked me what the matter was as trousers were identical. Errrr..i said they were “almost identical” as one had a bird imprinted on the pocket (didu’s) while the other  had a horse that looked more like a donkey was given to me. And the explanation given to me by my sis (which still has ma in splits) was that because ma thinks I am a donkey she has given it to me!!!!!

So you can imagine my mom’s worry (along with my papa, BIL and hubby) of what would happen when me and sis meet after such along time .But as I said with great determination and super support from jijoo and hubby I did manage to be with my sis for a week without a single fight!!

There is one more reason I tend to avoid fight with her these days which is the fact that she has an undue…..unfair advantage over me – SHE HAS MY LADDU. She is as possessive about her mother as I use to be (am) possessive about my sister. So I am assured that my sister is in safe hands with my laddu with her.

Talking about laddu …she is all grownup…in-que teenager…and what not!! She is no longer my chotu baby and likes to be addressed as a kid. While I was there my sis asked me to help laddu have a bath….during which she asked me a Question “Masi why do you love me so much?” I laughed off her question saying that because she is MY laddu . But then can I help not loving her !!

i just cannot!! She is and will always be my bachuu….my bebu….So while I was there for some days she tolerated my coo-cooing over her but one day when things got over her threshold she was like masi can you please not do that I am not a baby anymore and you are all over me …and trust me she was extremely irritated!! So with a hell lot of restraint I tried my best not to overdo.

This was also the first time I spent this amount of time with my jijoo and what a blast I had!!!!!! . We had this daily “coffey with jijoo” routine where he use to give us pearls of his wisdom. Basically I had anger management sessions with him and hubby use to have sessions on how to irritate your wife (more).
BTW hubby has had too much of gyan from jijoo going by the course that he is behaving. He is no longer my sweet hubby L

So when one week was done and it was time for our next stoppage a.k.a SIL. I met kishu after a very very long time. And my-oh-my !!! what a 180 degree change…..she is no longer the tomboy that she use to be but now a very girly-girly gal. But one thing that has not changed about her is her energy. Moment she is in house you would know. I use to call her kishimishi and for some reason she started calling me that and so has ansh. As my sis-in-law says that I should forget about hearing “Mami” from both of them. But then who minds  (:

 I can never forget how upset she was when it was time for us to pack her bags...even though we are to meet again in June K

This trip was also the very first time kishu and Laddu spoke to each other over facetime and managed to behave “goofy” (in their own words) ..Because both are so different I would just love to see them together and i  really hope one day I do get to see that.

Now coming on to Anshi the great!!! Well he is such a “Mickey  Mouse” (in hubby’s words) . He is on the stage where is grapping words and learning to talk in sentences. Me and hubby use to teach him quite a few sentences, much to the dismay of SIL (No parent would want to hear Atta maji satakli , “Ullu“ from their 2 year toddler .
Coming on to mickey mouse, ansh must be his “biggest” fan trust me when I say that.  SIL has to store all episodes of the cartoon on all TV sets in her house as ansh only watches those. When we were thinking of buying gift for ansh ……..dont know how many shops me and hubby visited and everyone said the same thing “Sir aajkal kaun  bachaa mickey mouse ke cartoon dekhta hai “

The biggest worry SIL has while she travels to india that if during the super long flight to India if ansh “demands” to see his “Mikka” what will she do. As a result sof this she has decided to store all mikka cartoons in her ipad to pacify anshi.

He and Kishu have this particular time in night when they are in “high spirits” (quite literally)  so much so that it was easier for me to digest all my food as the result of all hahahah hehehehe that use to happen post dinner…..

To be continued.....

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