Mother-in-law grandma is here! Having a grand time! D was immediately attached to her. MIL played hide and seek with the carseat sun shade during the car ride back home from the airport and since then D has been playing hide and seek with her!! She somehow is learning so much faster from grandma. I guess she has much more patience to repeat the ( Read more... )

I don't think I wrote about the adventure MIL had on her flight back on Friday! I want to write this down to remember for the future.... not that any of us here will actually ever forget!

A brief backstory: MIL went to Tucson for two weeks to attend the International Gem & Jewelry show. She has a lot of interest and practices use of healing crystals ( Read more... )

Been busy visiting friends whom PILs know here! The locals had to wait a whole month before we had a chance to meet up!! Evenings have been busy taking FIL on many shopping extravaganza. And if you think that we went to all the branded places think again. The most branded place we might have stepped foot in was IKEA. It seems a very common thing ( Read more... )

It feels like it was all a dream. Our two week trip took us to the Southwest of the United States and across the country to Niagara Falls and a quick trip to Toronto. We saw giant sized cacti, cowboys, Billy the Kid, tasted some of the best burritos one could ever have, saw the Grand Canyon, the horizons so far and away that looks completely beyond ( Read more... )

Yesterday, N and I were helping FIL call up his friends who reside in the USA. Every phone call he made (3-4 of them) started off with, "Hi. This is so-and-so and I was in the graduating batch of 1960-something!" followed with a small anecdote or nicknames they had for each other. whoa.

N and I wonder will we be calling up our long lost friends and ( Read more... )

Why do leftovers have such a bad name? I am having "leftovers" (I don't call it leftovers because I cook lunch the previous night) for lunch as my hubby is enjoying lunch at home with in-laws. Yum. And now MIL is on a quest to make sure for as long as she is here we will never have leftovers for lunch. My FIL pitched in the reason, "The food will ( Read more... )

Enjoying the food! Seen pretty much all of Bangalore in the last two weeks! Since landing in Bangalore, we have driven down to Madanapalle and then to Puttaparthi and back!  That was just 600km covered in 36 hours. I can't believe the time here is coming to an end! :S Why does time fly?! Soon we will be heading down to Andhra Pradesh and travel ( Read more... )