1. you can be sick. or you can have kids.
2. firstborn mostly asks questions for which he already knows the answer (are there volcanoes in Mysore? Are we going to India in March? Do I have a pet name?)
3. Point two is so annoying. and the answer is no no and no.
4. Baby Param smiles and waves to strangers while sitting on the back seat.
5. I am afraid of most kids in my block. my sons are doing far better in the ‘spinal cord’ dept.
6. the three XY chromosome holders have frighteningly identical taste in food. benena chips. check. idli + sambar. check. popcorn. check. pav bhaji. check. warm water. check.
7. When a book blows your mind, it takes a long while to get your mind back, and get on to a new book.
8. i hate to ask of too many things of my mixie.
9. baby param can tell apart our individual trees: mine, firstborn’s and his.
10. that conditioner is a hair-detangler. a discovery that came 20 years too late in my life.
Twopointthree kids, sixpointsix ideas on raising them 
Never too late for detangler 🙂
i am using hibiscus leaves, shyam. this is the national flower… so we have many many plants around.
but my poor mixie has to do the grinding:-(
wow. you MAKE it? I can’t remember the last time I did anything other than make tea or maggi 😦 my mixie won’t remember what my face looks like.
it pains me when my mixie has wheezing.
am planning to buy one of those mortar and pestles (or whatever you call the old fashioned grinding stone) and grind my way to idli batter fame.
i could buy two? one for you as well
I so agree to the first one…LOL on FB’s Qs and Baby Param’s smartness 🙂 and yes…hair conditioner detangles is a fact I learnt late in life 😦
about points 1 to 8 : sympathies, support
point 9: applause
we really need to meet -then i can introduce you to big frizzy hair that smirks at detangling conditioners – thats about point no 10.
Hey Sur, you could try Paul Mitchell detangling conditioner – my sister uses it for her ridiculously thick, unmanageable hair. She swears it works wonders.
hibiscus leaves ground in the mixie. twice a week. leave on for five minutes. it works sur
actually i have tried that- every time i go to my in-laws’ house in kerala. you are right, its fantastic. i should just get a hibiscus plant in a pot in my city house.
two. one for you and one for sanah
yeah i should.
touch wood, she has lovely hair, like my mother’s hair. not curly and crazy, but with gentle curls at the ends of her now long,long hair. ( and i am going to chop them off soon, summer is here….what to do)
is she for the cut?
she is up for it, intellectually. how much ever of an intellect her five year old mind allows.
and emotionally, she has a community of nay sayers backing her – that adds upto a 105 years, at the least!
the week then was a good one. you learnt ten new things!
🙂
I agree with Chox- a most productive week! I hope you are well now.
sue passed on her lot to me:-(
that you answer the boy’s questions truthfully is highly surprising. Last night small asked me if I was frying bhajiya in oil.. I said ‘no, thats milk…its fat free.’ 😛
LOL!
guddi. what fun to see you here. beeg smile is me
aww….poor you on pts 1 and 6. I’m with you on 8 – Mixie needs mollycoddling 🙂 Pts 2 – 3 – eh,I have one of those as well. And no, it didn’t get better with age – mine is almost 9 and the level of questions-with-obvious-answers just went up. Pt 9 – yes it detangles, but you are a shikakai person no? Be careful then – some conditioners cause major hair fall – to most of us chemical-laden shampoo using folks that doesn’t matter much, but it may be a shock to you!
this is the sort of advice they should dish out in rapunzel and such-like fairytales.
M. I am doing hibiscus leaves. ground in the mixie, as conditioner. hence point 8.
but hairfall is a constant chez moi. hairfall hasnt decreased. but crying over combing has.
Why doesnt FB have a pet name? why, why why?
#7 – still talking abt “I am a pencil”? I found it in my library and got it home 🙂
“The Power of Now” Eckhart Tolle.
tell me you ordered it online. with ‘fineprint’ at home, did you actually venture OUT?
In KL first week of May?
yep. i think so. but i am v.v.v. scared of blogmeets.
i never live up to my expectations.
and the blogdost always surpasses my expectations.
and i drown my sorrows in hairoil.
aneela, you go pull her bluff.
i dont buy this wilting wallflower story one bit.
i meant call her bluff,
(and pull her hair if needed)
about the hair pulling.
if it’s a tuesday or friday then it will be leafy with conditioner, that has chosen to stay on.
aneela, you come up with the smart line here.
let MiM not have the last word.
i confess, i do give up….
Hain, what is this about hair pulling? Why the Rapunzel references? Oonchi hai building, lift teri band situation? I can use the stairs you know.
MiM, as the great Aamir Khan peace be upon him said in dil chahta hai, there is no improvement on perfection. So worry not about the blogdost meet.
You are right, avoid the hair pulling, nahin to ‘Sar pe zameen, paon ke neecha hai aasmaan’ waala situation ho jayega.
Enjoy the meeting, perfection#1 and perfection #2 ( two writers i really enjoy reading, will so look forward to the post on both your blogs after the meet. one with bollywood references, other with the tamizh film references – film buff khush hui!)
aah but nothing good has come out of the Kolly-Bolly milan. Hopefully our meet will be more productive than Mani Ratnam selling his soul to the Bachchan parviar.
aah surabhi, there is many a smart line… but at this stage I want to be on MiM’s good side.
sweetheart just email me at aneela.zeb.babar@gmail.com if you will be in town early may, i arrive around april 29th and leave by May 5. Leave dhaka tomorrow so intermittent access to internet before that
Those are good lessons. Better learning them late than never 🙂 May I ask which book was that good? Like Guddi I love messing with the kids heads too. It’s way too much fun 😉
eckhart tolle… also read his “Stillness Speaks” …
1 & 8 – I completely agree…
XY chromosome – LOL!!
Loved the 1st learning.LOL!
LOL gud ones 😉