The kids sleeping, hubby sleeping early after a tiring day at work and I am feeling fresh after I listened to this song with my eyes closed in a dimly lit room, my study.....
This is to my friends whom I remember almost everyday, though I dont always call them, talk to them, mail to them or even FB them - it is to them!
This is the Friday mood I am in :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2SfmcNg8js
posted by Tuya @ 21:39
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A Happy 2nd birthday. She is so excited from the morning because we put up balloons and streamers. She also asked,'Aarushi will also have happy birthday cake?' Arunav did not want to go to school,'But mummum I will be missing all the fun.' Only after some tears did he understand he will be back in time for the party!
posted by Tuya @ 13:44
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We had a tough morning today. Both of us forgot to put Arunav to potty and we dont let him to school without that. At the last minute when we realized, we tried to rush him into it and being 4 yr old he of course has no perspective of time and the words "the school bus will leave" has no impact on him - so chaos and tears followed.
Only after Arunav left for school did both of us wonder yes, Arunav doesnt have a time perspective but where was ours when we tried to grill that into him in about 2 minutes?? No wonder Arunav sometimes says, "Again you are not getting it!" :)
posted by Tuya @ 12:23
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After I started my French lessons I have really become more appreciative of what Arunav/Aarushi are achieving.
The other day they gave us a simple "Word Search" matrix where we had to spot 6 months written in French - I could spot so many English words but finding the "Janvier, Mai(instead of May), Aout", etc was not really as easy as I thought it would be! When Arunav spots out words like 'alligator' he is doing a great job not the "that's good" that he typically is awarded with.
We rarely remember the complexity of things once we have become used to things and the 'complex' tasks have become 'simple' for us to achieve....
posted by Tuya @ 12:49
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My Valentine's Day was made when I laughed my heart out for 2 whole minutes - that's a lot of good you can do to your mind n body!
And it all started by a phone call to a friend. His 4 year old son, Neel, when talking to my dear hubby asked him,"How's your monkey business?" (for a few months now my husband has setup his own business and Neel thought it has something to do with monkey) My husband said," You have understood very early that we ARE really into monkey business."
I couldnt stop laughing....
posted by Tuya @ 22:04
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In my previous office trainings to do away with discrimination were called the captioned and since it is a better sounding term, I will stick to it.
When I stepped into Arunav's previous school I met Chinese, Malaysian, English, Italian, American, Indian, Belgian, French and many others and I never felt the person in front was embarassed to have been spoken to. We spoke English - some were native speakers and some were just about managing to converse, but still we spoke about our children, how to make our lives with our children better - we spoke of educational issues, parenting issues - language or cultural differences were never such a big issue in our talking together.
In Arunav's new school, I often happen to embarass others by saying 'hello' - they soon have to find a way out of the conversation and I sometimes wonder - maybe my English is accented and they dont understand me or maybe we dont have anything in common to talk about....
So I started observing the children playing and also finding out about the situation in other schools. Whether I mix around or not is not important, whether my son is mixing around or not is super important to me. And for whatever reason, I realised there is really very little mixing among the kids - not till they grow up some more(ages 8/9?).... and the story seems to be same in all big schools. That is such a surprise to me and makes me feel really sad. I dont know whether I want my child to grow up knowing the difference in this light....
posted by Tuya @ 13:48
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Does this happen to every mother, when one doesnt want to talk about kids or curriculum or extra-curricular activities and school and playdates and how cute they are and how bright they are or like children go through 'phases' I am also going through one?
I just dont feel like writing anything about Arunav or Aarushi. I get this queer feeling that by blogging about them I probably am stifling them ! Oh no, please dont ask me the logic of that - I have NO clue.
I just know that every time I click on that 'new post' I just think of writing about poems, things beautiful, my french class or a lovely movie I saw or my friends I think of and miss......
I am hoping this is akin to post-partum depression (I never experienced any so not sure what it really is) and I will soon be the doting mother :) Till then I might be excused if I only quote poems I love.
posted by Tuya @ 21:14
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"How beautiful, if sorrow had not made / Sorrow more Beautiful than Beauty’s self"
posted by Tuya @ 13:28
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Our French class has almost 30 students. Today we were talking about "J'ai...ans" - "my age". The ages ranged from 19 to 67. When the person said his age was 67, I felt ashamed. Only a few days back I was comparing Arunav's capacity to remember French vis-a-vis mine and I felt old. Here was this man who was almost as old as my mother who was doing as good as any of us and probably he was not feeling 'old' at all!
Our mind can remain young if we want it to.....and I am soo happy to be back to classroom :)
posted by Tuya @ 13:13
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