Sid’s first day at school

I had to write this down before the freshness of it fades away.

Sid has entered the schooling phase. June 4^th, 2015 was his first day at school. Kids Castle Pre-school. Nursery.

Sid was very excited to go to school. After all, this is what he has been hearing from a year now. The school had conducted a parents’ orientation programme a week earlier to make the parents aware of the do’s and don’ts for the child to get settled in the school. I was so confident about my child that I had only half-listened to them. So I drop Sid to the school and he got so excited to see the slides inside that he rushed inside and before we could realize the gate was closed. He couldn’t even say bye to me and off I go to my home. After one hour, I come back to pick him up and I see an all-weeping Sid shedding tears from every hole on his face. I was so very surprised to see him crying for me. He saw me, he hugged me, and he repeatedly kept saying, “I was looking for you mumma, I didn’t see you mumma, I got so sad.” A thunderbolt struck me with a message: My child is still a kid. Somehow, with all his conversational skills, I had assumed that he has grown up now and can understand things at a more matured level. This was followed by a couple more days of I-don’t-want-school monologues. God must have given this for my over-confidence. 

I am happy to say that Sid is well settled in to his school now. However, he doesn’t like the idea of going to another school, college, or office when he becomes a “big boy”.

May God bless him with an enjoyable and worth-remembering school time!

Grahapravesham

One of our biggest dreams has become a reality. We moved in to our home. Our own home in Bangalore.

20^th May 2015

The day when we got our house registration done. Legally, we became the owner of a house in Bangalore. But this fact didn’t settle down on my senses yet.

25^st – 27^th May 2015

I simply loved this time. Choosing the paint color of the walls, drafting the furniture looks, zeroing in on TV/geyser/etc brands, checking on the progress, pooja preparations, shopping, and a lot of roaming around with my husband.

28^th May, 2015

We shifted our stuff to the new house (thanks to the professionals of a packers and movers) and tried to transform the house into a home.

29^th May, 2015

The day we finally started living in the house. Started off with a Ganapati homam, followed by a milk-boiling ceremony. Lunch for near and dear ones. Bhagavat-seva pooja in the evening. And, then a much-needed sleep after a long day. Our home turned out to be spacious, nicely ventilated, bright, cozy and friendly place that welcomed us whole-heartedly.

The Malayalam phrase, “uppu thottu karpooram vare” (from salt to camphor), signifies all the important-unimportant, big-small, useful things that you might need for a living. Our journey of moving in went as apt as this phrase for us. Mom had said that the first things to be taken to our own house should be salt, rice, and tulsi leaves. And, we had done so even before the actual shifting. On the day of Grahapravesham, during the Ganapati homam, we found out that we had purchased all the listed pooja items except for karpooram (camphor). Somehow we missed it. Just imagine, a pooja without karpooram. The priest managed with some incense sticks. But since we had another pooja in the evening, we bought two loads of camphor – both for the pooja and to stock at home. So, I guess that was when we finally bought “everything” for our new home. 

Cheers! Here’s hoping a happy home for us!