The Perspicacity of Mommyhood

This weekend we decided to watch the latest release by Priyadarshan - a horror cum comedy supposedly, but by the quirk of fate and our desperation to watch a film , landed in the theatre showing 'Laga Chunri me Daag" ...(I guess what prompted me to buy the tickets was a remaining vestige of liking for Abhishek Bacchhan and the new found admiration for Kunal Kapoor and Konkona Sen) Well, so Rul n I landed there with both by sons. The theme is a hackneyed one ,thats been done to death in Indian Cinema.As per the theme demands there were some uncomfortable moments in the film for me as a Mum of two under 10 kids. My elder, by now, knows to keep shut and ask explanations later but its plumb impossible to keep my younger one from asking questions at the most inopportune moments. I was prudent when I anticipated the first uncomfortable one coming and pulled him out of the hall on the pretext of visiting the wash room. But I knew there was more to come...and it did..and this was the tough test of my ingenuity. So before the next awkward question could pop up from my junior I tickled him thoroughly and coochie cooed him and Voila!! he forgot all about it!! So it went on till we reached the better part of the film where there was mostly song and dance and the happy ending. In the end I could only say" Laga Chunri...Se BHAAG!!!!

Englees re defined...

We can never do away with out Angreji Prem and keeping up with the traditions I have set up the compulsion for both my children to write down and memorize five words from the dictionary every day every day( Dad would make me do that as a kid). This rigmarole has been on for almost a month now. I decided to do a memory check....
Results - the elder one remembered 60 % of what he learnt.
The younger tiger redefined Englees...Check out some...

Desert- no water and everywhere sandy sandy!!
Desk- When one Ma'am m goes and the other Ma'am comes where we put our notebook that is a 'desk'
Dessert - something like I scream, chocolate ....a sweetdish...yes!!!( triumphantly!!)
and on and on it went...

How little ones make your day....

Humans are strange animals.Look forward to outings as a change as long to get back home to the familiarity and comfort shortly after they have been out. Well ,after having spent a hectic weekend of outing we valued Oct 2 like never before... relaxing and watching "Gandhi" for the Nth time on TV. Lazing around in full majesty...'We personify lathargy' as my little Rul rightly puts it .Amidst this lazy mist came a request from my younger son"The whole family ,please assemble". So the three of us, assembled around him agog with interest as to what he wanted to show us...He came forward very shyly (highly uncharacteristic of him!!) with something clutched firmly behind. " Well what is it?!! Please show!!! ...We wailed...After much persuasion he extended a badly crushed, ripped sheet bearing these words (in his lovely cursive hand) - 'I love Papa and Mamma, I love Raghav'. We were touched ..But the indefatigable didactic Mother inside me had to peep out with a " Why is Raghav not suffixed with Bhaiya?" ..." I did'nt know how to spell it and asking you would have taken the surprise away", he replied in a small voice.....I dont have words to describe how small I suddely felt...