Good evening. Can I ask you a question today ? When was the last time you wrote a letter ? Pause. Take a moment. Ready with your answer ? Are you smiling ? Did it bring back some fond memories? Hold on to that memory for bit. Enjoy this moment for a bit. What’s the hurry ? 😊 I have enjoyed writing letters for as I long as I can remember. Reading a letter always brings back fond memories of…
Yes, this school year I volunteered to be the room parent for N’s class. No , not self volunteered rather the role fell into my laps and just couldn’t say no. I have only been volunteering for class/school specific activities, up until now. However, this year I moved on from following the instructions to giving out the instructions to a room full of parents (Parents can be a scary lot I tell you😂). A Room Parent’s primary duties are to…
In my previous post Seaside Oregon-The Crab Pot I sneaked in a mention of the Seven little clues. Shall we find out whether or not we solved the clues? And if we did what was the big surprise at end of it? 7 clues hunt (The beginning) It all started when Miss. V laid her eyes on a neatly rolled paper stuffed in the cavity of one the oars on the wall. Inquisitive as ever, her fingers found their way…
🎉 HAPPY NEW YEAR 🎉 Bonjour! Hope you are having a sparkling start to the year! Two years on and the virus doesn’t seem to be going anywhere , Vaccination and Masks are here to stay. I hope you are being smart, being compassionate and keeping safe. Here is my first post of 2022 recounting our last vacation of 2021. After a lovely road trip and back to back parties all in one week, we spent the 1st day of…
Hello there ! How are you planning to spend your last day of 2021? Party your way into 2022 or stay in pajamas and catch up on your favorite movie? For a change we are going to spend it partying with friends this year 🎉. We are back from our 3 nights trip from Seaside, Oregon. Our Airbnb host tells us that before this it had only snowed in twice in this quaint little beach town. Well looks like we…
Merry Christmas ,do you celebrate Christmas? Well we drove down in snow and rain from cold Seattle to cold Seaside town in Oregon , our home for next three days. The girls are watching Jumanji for the first time while Ginger is cozying up next to S‘s feet as he prepares our dinner as I put finishing touches to this post from Crab Pot -our beach cottage. Just one week left to new year, are you excited for 2022? Wouldn’t…
At the end of the day what helps you unwind? When the kids are finally in the bed, S and I plonk ourselves on our legendary sofa ( we don’t trade our favorite spots on the sofa, think Sheldon from Big Bang Theory 😂) to catch up on some grown up TV time, our “we-time“. This post is all about the tv series that helped me keep my sanity at the end of the day! Without further ado I present…
Can you believe it’s December already? It’s going to be a La Niña winter this year for us, 2 years in a row, a brutal winter is coming! And as I am writing this I am reminded of the epic dialogue from Game Of Thrones “Winter is coming” 😂 Brrr… What have you been watching this December? I am currently loving Scenes from a marriage on HBO max and if you haven’t guessed I am also watching the GOT reruns!…
Last week one of my close friend lost her brother to Cancer. After two years since he was first diagnosed with the unforgiving disease he bid his loved ones a final goodbye. A brother, a son to her mother, a father to his young son, a husband to his wife is finally at peace. Cancer is a disease that plays by its own rules and rarely ever responds the way one would wish for. From innumerable visits to the doctor,…
This is the last post in my three series post following Halloween Saga (2016-2018) and Halloween Saga (2019-2020) . We are finally here in 2021, the year of vaccination, the year of HOPE! While we are on it, I wanted to share some positive news with you guys, Ms. V got her first shot of Covid vaccination this weekend 🎉! Continuing from where we left, our 2021 Halloween pumpkin carving/painting tradition commenced just a week before Halloween this year. On…
👻 I witch you a Happy Halloween 👻 Here it is -the second part to the three part series of our Halloween experiences in States.I kept my promise! In other news, currently I am watching Fleabag on Amazon Prime, yes I caught on to it rather late. Wouldn’t it be rather lovely to have that no filter attitude just once in a while and say what you gotta say? Ooh so tempting. Anyhow coming back to the topic, 2016-2018 was…
👻 BOO 👻 With Diwali and Halloween over and Christmas at least a month away I am free to write. As much as I want to keep my posts up to date, I have been lagging behind since summer. Anyhow I am back with first of the three posts on our Halloween experiences. A photolog chronicling our 5 years of celebrating Halloween, more photos less words. I have split it into 3 parts, this first one is all about how…
If you landed here first, then you may want to catch up on Part 1! So continuing from where we left, here is how I got convinced … So What happened? Now all was going well until V came home one day and told us about Edu! Edu is V’s classmate’s Labradoodle pup who came to school all of last year and of course V saw him everyday and heard stories about him everyday. Yes that is how the Universe…
Well the secret has been out for a while now and it only made sense that I let you all in on it too. Without much further ado, presenting to you , drums rolls…. ✨GINGER , our lab doodle pup✨. The newest kid on the block! Seriously my camera roll right now is filled with her pictures and shenanigans!! This fluffy ball of joy with two buttons for eyes has been keeping us busy for a over a month! Last…
“There is a difference between a person who hurts you by making a mistake, and a person who hurts you by continuing a pattern. Mistakes can be forgiven, Patterns should be broken“- somebody on Instagram ! Just one of those days when a Instagram gives you these pearls of wisdom that lead you down the path of introspection. Now, when I started blogging again this year, one of my early posts was about one such incident in particular where I…