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Day 21 – Blogathon 2024- Tharani’s award

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Being a bit late to the bandwagon and taking T’s award.

1. Who is that one fictional character with whom you want to have a romantic dinner with?
Khaaka khaaka Suriya. His eyes are those to die for. It had been the first romantic movie whose music track I was so crazy about in my teen years. Ondra Renda aasaigal ! 😉


2. What is that one thing you do when you are fed up with life?
Try making a difference by being kind to someone who is having a harder time than me.


3. Why are you still blogging ?
This annual tradition feels like a reunion of sorts. Also I like journaling parts of life , venting out and sharing positive moments.

Day 20 – Blogathon 2024 – Parenting woes

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This looks like a scene from our house

– Had a super awesome morning routine.

– Supported the kiddo to the best possible way in his skating class.

– Had a breakfast disagreement which led to temper tantrums that lasted for an hour and half. Opening his play cupboard and not insisting him to eat idli/dosa helped. He finally ended up having his favourite healthy food.

– Packed him to math class and I am blog writing for handy reference in the future.

Root causing the tantrums and effectively handling the same is a challenge. Needs more than one head, objective discussions, sometimes medications and a lot of patience.

Smiling, telling stories, distraction, speaking, explaining and letting go are some tools that help in handling the same.

The journey is difficult, we can do it when the intent is in place though. This is a snapshot of my tough morning people. Good day to all of you!

Day 19- Blogathon 2024- A happy day

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– Had a sane morning routine. Kiddo went to school happily.

– Did the morning zumba routine reasonably well. I have a bit of ache in my foot. Applied moov.

– Had a haircut and I am getting all prepped for our Sunday night trip to my home town for a wedding.

– Handled kiddo sanely despite temper tantrums in the evening.

– Wrapped up the day with a video call with a favourite cousin on parenting, challenges and solutions.

Day 18 – Blogathon 2024 – When the light goes out, eat good food.

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Folks, I am not in the best mood today. I woke up around 3 am because of kiddo’s constant shuffling in sleep. I have been thinking of random ideas like setting up my own drip irrigation system to water my plants. I am planning to get a silk saree pre-pleated for a wedding and I am super excited about it.

Had a bad start for today due to kiddo’s tantrums in the morning. I am scared if I could upbring him to be a decent independent human being. These are days in which I feel that I am a bad parent and they are days in which he pushes all my buttons and makes me into a screaming lecturing monster mommy.

I am going to turn on my inner light with good food and start crossing out items in my today’s list..bye.

Day 17 – Blogathon 2024- Some lows – Vent post

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– Missed posting yesterday as I slept off putting the kiddo to sleep. Thankfully I had at least cleared dinner and cleaned up to the kitchen.

– Getting the kiddo ready for school was a battle today. All that he wanted to do was laze and watch tv ! Effect of long holiday.

– I lost my cool and did some unholy screaming. This happens when he resists every sane thing from brushing to bathing and behaves unreasonably when I do not give in to his demands. He pushed back on breakfast. I packed it as his morning snack.

– Now that I have vented, I am going to post today’s post.

Day 16- Blogathon 2024- Some highs today

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– Felt super awesome when kiddo insisted on having sugarcane. It was fun teaching him how to chew and spit the cane by demonstrating him the process. His facial expression of observing my chewing movements with utmost concentration and imitating the same needs a record here.

– Cut the two large sugar canes that we bought yesterday like a pro with a Swiss cutting knife. One cut was enough to slice a piece.

– Managed the household chores and kiddo decently without losing my cool.

– Realized that my version of filter coffee is pretty close to that of the hotel made ones.

I am now going to chew another sugarcane till it lasts. Bye ppl.

Day 15 – Blogathon 2024- The Pongal day

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I have loved Pongal celebrations ever since I have been a kid.. I used to enjoy watching my neighbour’s aunties make big rangolis and help my parents set for the sun Pooja. I also used to enjoy decimating sugar canes with my teeth and tongue.

I have been pretty enthusiastic on having our own pongal traditions too. Ever since kiddo started school , I have always been particular about making paanai pongal and have include him to be a part of the process.

This year though had followed most part of the tradition, I had to make cooker pongal as an emergency last moment change of plan.

Here is my breakfast spread.

– Sakkarai Pongal

– Venn pongal

– Sambhar and Chutney

– Raw banana podimas

– Butter beans poriyal

My boys polished it off in a jiffy!

For most of my adult life , I had conveniently relegated cooking to MIL. For the past 2 years, we decided to stay close by . I now realise the efforts and joys that come in a festive day cooking.

Happy Pongal folks !

Day 13 – Blogathon 2024 – Six on a Saturday

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– Kickstarted the day with a 6 am google meet with the extended maternal family where 4 generations of women rendered Thirupavai and Thiruvenpavai. The meeting was organised by my mom and I joined in mute and video off. By the end of the meet , my mom managed to convince me to at least try to keep on a bit of family tradition in the hectic modern life.

– Finally got the Khadi bath towels from Khadi Gramodyog. Have been waiting to buy them for atleast 6 months. The towels have a good shelf life. I have been using just 2 alternatively for almost a year and half.

– Kiddo threw at least 3 temper tantrums. I managed only one sanely. The rest of the time I lost my cool too. Learnt to keep a close watch on his medications to keep temper tantrums in control.

– Attended a Pongal event in the community and had a box chicken 65 for dinner.

– Scheduled a call with a college bestie in the US. Keeping a friendship across years and timezone and picking up from where exactly we left is what I cherish.

– I think today was better than yesterday as I was well rested last night.

Bye folks.

Day 12 – Blogathon 2024- Zzz

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This is the first day of the week in which I am wrapping up my day by 10:15 pm.. last week has been full of disturbed sleep and mindless social media scrolling. I am not going to let the Pongal week get ruined. Good night people.

Pardonez moi if I am not actively commenting. Bye..Zzz