While the world is watching Olympics, I am binging on MacGyver!!!! OMG!!! How awesome a show it still is! I hear they are bringing it back with a female character - awesome! But MacGyver taught me French & Italian!! ;) My first time watching the show was in Rome and it was dubbed into Italian and at school once every three weeks we would have a TV ( Read more... )

Another ad (Google India ad - promoting digital literacy among women). Another trigger. Another memory.

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[The daughter as she says bye to her mother, asks if she remembers everything and when her mother says yes, they say their byes and she heads out. The daughter outside hear's the school's bell ring and children heading out to class. It ( Read more... )

Every once in a while I find myself feeling young-er again! Tonight is one of those nights. And of course, am wasting away on the internet. I finished clearing the kitchen in the evening. N cleaned up the apartment. I finished a load of laundry. All in anticipation that we will have another dragged out night of getting D to bed. But she slept off ( Read more... )

I have always been sharing how food is a big battle with my daughter. Apparently compared to me at the same ages, she is eating up a ton more! This girl is strong. She can hold on to things if she really wants it and catches people completely by surprise. I on the other hand would fall over if given a little push. ha ( Read more... )

oh this has to be the best Buzzfeed list so far! Spot on - 60 Things That Defined Your Childhood in IndiaEach and every item we did! oh what fun ( Read more... )

Sunday, April 28This was the most exciting day for both MIL & myself! We were going to meet our friends!! MIL was going to meet her pen friend from France (she and her husband came up just to meet us). They "met" as pen friends when MIL was a senior in high school. My MIL is from Pondicherry (a former French colony and so French was/is widely ( Read more... )

Sometime ago echomyst had asked in my response to one of her posts, what books I had grown up with that have left an impression on me. As we are looking around for books that a toddler would be interested in, there are so many books that D enjoys. At the same time, I have also been looking for books in Telugu, my mother tongue for her to glance through and ( Read more... )

Yesterday evening I took D out to the lawn next to the pool area for her to hang out. She sits nicely on grass and pulls them all out. Thankfully she doesn't put any of it in her mouth. Only leaves. For some reason she differentiates discriminates between them! It was still a hot evening. The temperature was somewhere still at 90F (33C) at 7:30PM! ( Read more... )

I am dreaming for Toe independence! I am so sick of wearing shoes/boots that it's making me very restless and frustrated. I am yearning for the warm day where I can walk about in my sandals again. Let the toes wiggle free and get plenty of air. I was never a shoes person ( Read more... )

It's started to snow! The flakes look more like dust particles at the moment! Started earlier than forecasted! But if it snows as forecasted we will get a foot of snow by tomorrow night and that will be my first "big" snow! The last time I saw snow was 8 inches in Tulsa, Oklahoma (where the userpic was taken ( Read more... )