What started off as a perfect day ended up as one of the most idle days. I dont remember having a day like this for a long time. No office for me, no school for Ada just hanging around. Sounds good right. Here is what happened. Today I got up at 6 AM, took out frozen milk and made cheese since my daughter takes cheese to school. This ritual followed by watering plants and doing my daily chores. Packing chocolates for Ada's school since there was supposed to be a school birthday today for her. Food packed, snack packed, clothes packed, water bottle packed, shoes packed ready to go. At 7.30 AM I am done and ready for work. Bathed Ada by 8 AM and was planning to do some pranayama if time permits between 8.30 AM to 9 AM. Fed Ada one roti and it was looking like one of the most perfect days to school and work. If I start exactly at 9 AM, I reach school at 9.15 AM and hence get a good parking spot. I dont have to rush going far away near a drain or struggle to do a parallel parking. Just when I am about to leave, saw Ada is holding potti (She stands in her toes, hides her face behind curtain and avoids eye contact). I was aware that it will be late to school but still thought let me take her to potti. 10 minutes in toilet, nothing. I was loosing my patience. It was already 9.15 AM. There is very little hope that I can take her to school at this moment. Despite all this I decided to give her the suppository that we usually give her every 5-7 days. 15 minutes later some symptoms, then I take her to toilet, waited for 5 mins nothing as yet. My frustration was running high just because I was aware that she not only missed school, I also missed my office. I then scolded her, put her in bed, walked out of the room angrily. She being a very pampered kid started wailing loudly. I came to the living room and was taking deep breath to calm myself down. The cry stopped, and I was wondering what is she upto (usually she is afraid to be alone in any room). It is already 5 mins since I left her. I tip toed to the bedroom and saw she was not on the bed. Then when I went further inside saw her heading towards the toilet. This time she was really getting the pressure. I went hurriedly and found she has already soiled her pant. Then took her to the toilet. Great this time it worked. Then 3 more trips, looked like she emptied her colon but missed her school and I missed my work. So just chilling at home and dont know what to do on a unplanned day like this so blogging.
Wednesday, November 2, 2016
Sunday, September 18, 2016
An unforgettable holiday in Andaman...
Ever since we came back from USA ( to be precise 25th July 2012), we have not taken any meaningful break. We did take some small breaks, but they were rather very short and stressful to be called as a holiday. Our recent trip to Andaman during 30th June to 7th July has been particularly very enjoyable. We too straight 7 days break and stayed in a very comfortable hotel in the downtown where I could even do leisure shopping. That was the best part of it.
We traveled Air India from Kolkata and the flight was scehduled at 8.40 AM. It took less than 2 hours to reach Veer Savarkar airport in portBlair at approximately 8.30 AM. One thing to watch out is the airport rest rooms are aweful, so better stay away from them. We took a taxi to the hotel that was approximately 3-5 kms from the airport, at a comfortable fare of 125 rupees. The taxi guys generally try to do sight seeing marketing, but dont jump into yet untill you verify the locations yourself.
Out of the 7 days locations listed by the taxi guys menu, we found 2 are very close to the downtown. So probably there is no need of a package tour for that if you are staying downtown, you can take them on your own. One of them is Rajiv Gandhi water park and the other is Mahatma Gandhi park. We stayed in Courtyard J hotel and both the places were walking distances apart from the hotel (from downtown aberdeen bazar). Cellular Jail is also very close to the downtown, but it is closed on mondays. So, better to plan for this place on weekends.
First day in the evening, we headed for Corbyn's cove beach in PortBlair by an auto. It was about 10 kms ride from the hotel, quiet, water is not that clean but still better than mainland.
Day 2: We walked into the municipality food court and Rajiv Gandhi park. It was quite nicely maintained and stays open long. I saw some big screen monitors broadcasting social messages. This is a beautiful garden with small play park, walking trails. Has everything for all age groups. There is also a cycle space for kids to learn traffic rules. I found that to be interesting.
Day 3: We took a cruise to Havelock Radhanagar beach bu Macruise. It is a pivate cruise charges about 1000 rupees per head for one way for an adult. For children they dont have a fare structure yet, but for infants they charge 150 per head per way. The cruise lasts for about 90 minutes and is beautiful. You need to reach the dockyard at 7.30 AM. Once you reach havelock, you need to take taxi or rented cars for the beach. We headed for Radhanagar beach, one of the most beautiful beaches with pristine clean water. The taxi two and fro costed us about 500 rupees. Once you get down there, you will see ladies selling bananas, pine apples at resonable prices. You can munch on them if you like. We headed for the beach at 10.30 Am and were back by 2.30 PM just about time to catch the cruise back to portblair. Radhanagar beach is one of the nicest beaches I have ever seen. Water is extremely clean. There are changing areas, wooden benches swings and tall trees all over the beach. So you can lie down and relax. It is the perfect beach I have ever seen! On our return the water was choppy and bouncy. People having sea sickness should take enough care and precautions.
Day 4: We went for local sight seeing including cellular Jail. It is a 7 armed structure and the central pillar is beautifully located with sea all around it. There are museaums and displays about the life of the prisoners. There is a small shop called as sagarika, that sells local products. Very reasonable in case you want to buy momentos.
Day 5: We took small cruise to North island and ross island. There are several boat/cruise operators and they generally charge 500 rupees per head per way. So for 2 adults to go and comeback these two places will cost about 2000 rupees. The water in both the places are pristine and clear. In north island people generally do water activities. We happened to do some shopping there and found pearls and other stuff to be much cheaper than sagarika. Apart from that there is nothing much to see. From there we headed for Ross island. This is an island where no body stays now. It has a great historical significance. During british times, british high commissioners were staying here and this place was called as paris of the east. Indeed it is a beautiful place with remains of the all the old world charms. There are peacocks, deers, rabbits openly moving around and a lot of coconut trees. You are suppose to walk around the place and enjoy the sight. We wasted time because we though it is a big place for walking. Bu actually speacking if you take a walk on one side in 2 hours time you can complete seeing the entire place. Be aware, there is no food items available, so carry your stuff.
Day 6: We visited local spots for buying plants and checking out there manufacturing place at Dollygunj for buying stuff. They were not that great. We found north island to be by far the best place for purchasing. We also visited an agriculture and dairy university place where they were giving away free plants and we got some.
Day 7: Chidiyatappu. We rented a taxi for Chidiyatapu from Aberdeen bazar. It costed about 1200 rupees for both ways. The price is worth. This point is a place where you should see sunset. In a cloudy day you may not see much. It is a must go place again with beautiful beach and mountainous roads. I must say difficult to drive roads. If you plan to go there start as early as 2 PM from the city. Overall I would give 5 star to the beach.
My take home message is:
1. Andaman nicober island is a beautiful place.
2. Regular household items are cheaper there if you want to buy.
3. Mostly this place is inhabited by Tamilians and hence crie rate is much less.
4. The city is very clean and they dont use polythene bags.
5. People in Andaman islands dont every imagine coming to mainland. They are much happier there.
6. Food items are more or less like mainland so no surprises there.
7. Green coconuts are two types, green and orange.
Overall a 5 star tourist spot.
We traveled Air India from Kolkata and the flight was scehduled at 8.40 AM. It took less than 2 hours to reach Veer Savarkar airport in portBlair at approximately 8.30 AM. One thing to watch out is the airport rest rooms are aweful, so better stay away from them. We took a taxi to the hotel that was approximately 3-5 kms from the airport, at a comfortable fare of 125 rupees. The taxi guys generally try to do sight seeing marketing, but dont jump into yet untill you verify the locations yourself.
Out of the 7 days locations listed by the taxi guys menu, we found 2 are very close to the downtown. So probably there is no need of a package tour for that if you are staying downtown, you can take them on your own. One of them is Rajiv Gandhi water park and the other is Mahatma Gandhi park. We stayed in Courtyard J hotel and both the places were walking distances apart from the hotel (from downtown aberdeen bazar). Cellular Jail is also very close to the downtown, but it is closed on mondays. So, better to plan for this place on weekends.
First day in the evening, we headed for Corbyn's cove beach in PortBlair by an auto. It was about 10 kms ride from the hotel, quiet, water is not that clean but still better than mainland.
Day 2: We walked into the municipality food court and Rajiv Gandhi park. It was quite nicely maintained and stays open long. I saw some big screen monitors broadcasting social messages. This is a beautiful garden with small play park, walking trails. Has everything for all age groups. There is also a cycle space for kids to learn traffic rules. I found that to be interesting.
Day 3: We took a cruise to Havelock Radhanagar beach bu Macruise. It is a pivate cruise charges about 1000 rupees per head for one way for an adult. For children they dont have a fare structure yet, but for infants they charge 150 per head per way. The cruise lasts for about 90 minutes and is beautiful. You need to reach the dockyard at 7.30 AM. Once you reach havelock, you need to take taxi or rented cars for the beach. We headed for Radhanagar beach, one of the most beautiful beaches with pristine clean water. The taxi two and fro costed us about 500 rupees. Once you get down there, you will see ladies selling bananas, pine apples at resonable prices. You can munch on them if you like. We headed for the beach at 10.30 Am and were back by 2.30 PM just about time to catch the cruise back to portblair. Radhanagar beach is one of the nicest beaches I have ever seen. Water is extremely clean. There are changing areas, wooden benches swings and tall trees all over the beach. So you can lie down and relax. It is the perfect beach I have ever seen! On our return the water was choppy and bouncy. People having sea sickness should take enough care and precautions.
Day 4: We went for local sight seeing including cellular Jail. It is a 7 armed structure and the central pillar is beautifully located with sea all around it. There are museaums and displays about the life of the prisoners. There is a small shop called as sagarika, that sells local products. Very reasonable in case you want to buy momentos.
Day 5: We took small cruise to North island and ross island. There are several boat/cruise operators and they generally charge 500 rupees per head per way. So for 2 adults to go and comeback these two places will cost about 2000 rupees. The water in both the places are pristine and clear. In north island people generally do water activities. We happened to do some shopping there and found pearls and other stuff to be much cheaper than sagarika. Apart from that there is nothing much to see. From there we headed for Ross island. This is an island where no body stays now. It has a great historical significance. During british times, british high commissioners were staying here and this place was called as paris of the east. Indeed it is a beautiful place with remains of the all the old world charms. There are peacocks, deers, rabbits openly moving around and a lot of coconut trees. You are suppose to walk around the place and enjoy the sight. We wasted time because we though it is a big place for walking. Bu actually speacking if you take a walk on one side in 2 hours time you can complete seeing the entire place. Be aware, there is no food items available, so carry your stuff.
Day 6: We visited local spots for buying plants and checking out there manufacturing place at Dollygunj for buying stuff. They were not that great. We found north island to be by far the best place for purchasing. We also visited an agriculture and dairy university place where they were giving away free plants and we got some.
Day 7: Chidiyatappu. We rented a taxi for Chidiyatapu from Aberdeen bazar. It costed about 1200 rupees for both ways. The price is worth. This point is a place where you should see sunset. In a cloudy day you may not see much. It is a must go place again with beautiful beach and mountainous roads. I must say difficult to drive roads. If you plan to go there start as early as 2 PM from the city. Overall I would give 5 star to the beach.
My take home message is:
1. Andaman nicober island is a beautiful place.
2. Regular household items are cheaper there if you want to buy.
3. Mostly this place is inhabited by Tamilians and hence crie rate is much less.
4. The city is very clean and they dont use polythene bags.
5. People in Andaman islands dont every imagine coming to mainland. They are much happier there.
6. Food items are more or less like mainland so no surprises there.
7. Green coconuts are two types, green and orange.
Overall a 5 star tourist spot.
When is this going to end?!
The title looks serious, although contents may not appear like one! This has been an issue for one and half years now and I am not seeing any end to it. Well here is the problem.
My toddler (going to be 3 in 2 months) has stopped wearing diapers for atleast a year now. She does not wet the bed and susu is not a problem at all. With her potty has been a biggest challenge. We tried everything, pots, toilet seats to real toilets but she somehow has a phobia for it. Somehow she manages to hold it. Earlier she used to hold for 5 days and would soil the pant and will not come near us when she feels like it. No matter how much we try. I have started with a reward system where she gets chocolates when she does potty, but she says she does not want one! I am totally confused as what to do...
Everytie she soils the pant there is lot of stress, scolding crying happens and just now one such episode just happened so I decided to blog.
For last six months, the stool has been extremely hard and she had injuries. So we took her to the doctor. The doctor gave a medicine and she would do potty only when she is fed the medicine. Now it has come to a stage where she by passes the medicine also. We tried Ayurvedic, alopathic, homeopathic medicines and none of them works. It has so far has been a very frustrating and stressful experience for us.
Last week, she did not do potty for a week, so we took her to her doctor. He referred to a pediatric surgeon and he gave suppositories. She passed stool in 2 installments. Then he prescribed a medicine and asked us to give her for 2 weeks. Now she is still holding a soiling the pant. I take her to toilet and there she refuses to sit and starts for
My toddler (going to be 3 in 2 months) has stopped wearing diapers for atleast a year now. She does not wet the bed and susu is not a problem at all. With her potty has been a biggest challenge. We tried everything, pots, toilet seats to real toilets but she somehow has a phobia for it. Somehow she manages to hold it. Earlier she used to hold for 5 days and would soil the pant and will not come near us when she feels like it. No matter how much we try. I have started with a reward system where she gets chocolates when she does potty, but she says she does not want one! I am totally confused as what to do...
Everytie she soils the pant there is lot of stress, scolding crying happens and just now one such episode just happened so I decided to blog.
For last six months, the stool has been extremely hard and she had injuries. So we took her to the doctor. The doctor gave a medicine and she would do potty only when she is fed the medicine. Now it has come to a stage where she by passes the medicine also. We tried Ayurvedic, alopathic, homeopathic medicines and none of them works. It has so far has been a very frustrating and stressful experience for us.
Last week, she did not do potty for a week, so we took her to her doctor. He referred to a pediatric surgeon and he gave suppositories. She passed stool in 2 installments. Then he prescribed a medicine and asked us to give her for 2 weeks. Now she is still holding a soiling the pant. I take her to toilet and there she refuses to sit and starts for
Sunday, May 22, 2016
My toddler is an angel!
Now it is early morning, 4 AM on a monday. Woke up to mosquito bites, quickly checked my phone for emails and face book posts; one article caught my attention - an article on a toddler. The mom of the toddler writes about how she is being screamed at, bitten, scratched, hairs pulled and puked. This has been seconded by many more moms, makes me think, my toddler is an angel!! Let me describe my struggles with my toddler in a typical day.
Most of the time I single parent my daughter. Getting up in the morning, giving her food, running around for buying her supplies in case of emergency, getting her ready etc. When I say get her ready to school, it is no easy job. She does not want to take bath even after constant pursuasions. I try to put her in her new bath tub that her grandma bought. Putting all her choicest toys, spoons dabbas, anaything else she wants to take in, let her sit for as long as she likes - still does not work. End of it when time comes to put soap on her, there is always screaming and wailing. Then comes the real struggle to get her dressed for school. She does not like the thought of going to school, so she will run away before you manage to gather her and put her dresses, socks on. In between I have to manage to brush, take a 2 minutes bath, wear my (any) clothes to get ready to work. I only get 10 minutes every morning for myself. But the most harrowing of all is when you are about to lock your door, ready to leave, she will come up with her master stroke - want to go to toilet!! Many times, she will also tell you that she wants to do potty...So you remove all her clothes, put her in potty, wait patiently till she says she does not want to do any and get her ready all over again. This has been my life for as long as I remember with my 2 and half year old toddler.
Weekends are no fun. Morning, I have to take her to the park till she is done, then take her around the lake, run to buy milk, buy groceries, vegetables (all in different directions - managing time for each of these schedules while pushing her stroller), buy her school supply etc. In between, do my work intermittently and most importantly attend to her. The most difficult part so far has been her potty habbits. On many weekends, she will not go to toilet for potty, but will simply do on her pants. Day before yesterday, a saturday it happened for 7 times through out the day. The drama continued when she has the urge to go to toilet and has already soiled her pants, I take her to toilet. After waiting for 10-15 minutes, singing telling her stories, nothing comes out. Clean her bring her back and in another 1 hour, the same story repeats till you completely break down. Yesterday, a sunday another story erupted, where she refused to take bath!! Hair smelly, body smelly dirty but still does not want to take bath. Once in the morning I allowed her to cry as much as she can and she managed to do that successfully and fell fast asleep. I felt bad, although I could have done my work duirng that time, but could not do much. Then she got up, I fed her and pursued her to take bath all over again with many (inspiring :) stories ) and that resulted in nothing. Again crying wailing, screaming. I left her crying for sometimes till she calmed down. I gathered her, hugged her and asked whether she would take bath. She graciously suggested she can take bath in balcony.. It sounded like I won some lottery. I brought everything to balcony, but the sight of soap again triggered her anger. Anyways after a great struggle I managed to give her bath. When it was shampoo time, wailing ensued. She would just grab my legs, so washing her I get completely drenched. In any case, end of the struggle is good, because she is clean and hairs washed. This has been so for last 2 and half years every other day. Imagine the stress, but I manage to stay somehow sane by occasional meditation (like today when I get up really early) and contain my emotion. Today especially after reading this article, it occurred to me that how my toddler is an angel compared to what I read (touch wood! ). She does not pull my hair (yet), does not puke, does not bite me or scratch me... I dont know if she did all of this, what I would do and how I would react. She is now asleep by my side like an angel while I rant about her....
Most of the time I single parent my daughter. Getting up in the morning, giving her food, running around for buying her supplies in case of emergency, getting her ready etc. When I say get her ready to school, it is no easy job. She does not want to take bath even after constant pursuasions. I try to put her in her new bath tub that her grandma bought. Putting all her choicest toys, spoons dabbas, anaything else she wants to take in, let her sit for as long as she likes - still does not work. End of it when time comes to put soap on her, there is always screaming and wailing. Then comes the real struggle to get her dressed for school. She does not like the thought of going to school, so she will run away before you manage to gather her and put her dresses, socks on. In between I have to manage to brush, take a 2 minutes bath, wear my (any) clothes to get ready to work. I only get 10 minutes every morning for myself. But the most harrowing of all is when you are about to lock your door, ready to leave, she will come up with her master stroke - want to go to toilet!! Many times, she will also tell you that she wants to do potty...So you remove all her clothes, put her in potty, wait patiently till she says she does not want to do any and get her ready all over again. This has been my life for as long as I remember with my 2 and half year old toddler.
Weekends are no fun. Morning, I have to take her to the park till she is done, then take her around the lake, run to buy milk, buy groceries, vegetables (all in different directions - managing time for each of these schedules while pushing her stroller), buy her school supply etc. In between, do my work intermittently and most importantly attend to her. The most difficult part so far has been her potty habbits. On many weekends, she will not go to toilet for potty, but will simply do on her pants. Day before yesterday, a saturday it happened for 7 times through out the day. The drama continued when she has the urge to go to toilet and has already soiled her pants, I take her to toilet. After waiting for 10-15 minutes, singing telling her stories, nothing comes out. Clean her bring her back and in another 1 hour, the same story repeats till you completely break down. Yesterday, a sunday another story erupted, where she refused to take bath!! Hair smelly, body smelly dirty but still does not want to take bath. Once in the morning I allowed her to cry as much as she can and she managed to do that successfully and fell fast asleep. I felt bad, although I could have done my work duirng that time, but could not do much. Then she got up, I fed her and pursued her to take bath all over again with many (inspiring :) stories ) and that resulted in nothing. Again crying wailing, screaming. I left her crying for sometimes till she calmed down. I gathered her, hugged her and asked whether she would take bath. She graciously suggested she can take bath in balcony.. It sounded like I won some lottery. I brought everything to balcony, but the sight of soap again triggered her anger. Anyways after a great struggle I managed to give her bath. When it was shampoo time, wailing ensued. She would just grab my legs, so washing her I get completely drenched. In any case, end of the struggle is good, because she is clean and hairs washed. This has been so for last 2 and half years every other day. Imagine the stress, but I manage to stay somehow sane by occasional meditation (like today when I get up really early) and contain my emotion. Today especially after reading this article, it occurred to me that how my toddler is an angel compared to what I read (touch wood! ). She does not pull my hair (yet), does not puke, does not bite me or scratch me... I dont know if she did all of this, what I would do and how I would react. She is now asleep by my side like an angel while I rant about her....
Thursday, May 19, 2016
How is it to miss your daughter when you are at work ...
Call me silly or stupid, I am at work today and missing my toddler so much that decided to write this blog. Yes you heard it right, we live together, everyday before I come to work, I drop her at day care - not before we have enough scuffle. She hates to go to school and hence refuses to get ready and as result I get stressed out and a lot of shouting screaming and crying ensues. And finally it is a success when I drop her at school before 9.40 AM. Sometimes when I am late, I get nice lectures from her teacher. Believe me, on my way back driving I feel as though I am lighter by many kilos. Then few hours at work, I start missing her. Once I missed her so much that I googled her as 'Kukua' because that is what I call her at home and ended up getting this cute little bird and immediatey made it my desktop wall :)
I find this very strange because when I am home she drives me crazy and I want to have some quiet time, but when away from her I miss her. Does it happen to all moms?
I find this very strange because when I am home she drives me crazy and I want to have some quiet time, but when away from her I miss her. Does it happen to all moms?
Sunday, March 27, 2016
How much work does a home need????
Endless is my answer.......................................... I will explain this in a while. People do spring cleaning when the snow is over, I did a spring cleaning because my train tickets did not get confirmed and/or I did not get a guest house booking All is for well I guess. Much to the horror of my domestic helps I did not take off for the loong weekend end with 5 straight days off. It sounds like a lottery :)
I am home alone with a toddler who needs constant attention and what could be done in this scenario is when she is asleep. However, she is super excited when she is home so, she does not taker her nap during the afternoon. It all started on 23rd March ( a compensatory off), 24th is holi, 25th is good friday and 26th and 27th are the weekends.
On 23rd actually there was holi in the building and in Kolkata, so could not venture out. But hey who worries, I have straight 5 days off.However, early in the morning managed to do a full sequence of yoga and pranayama before Ada woke up, yay!! Morning time few of my colleagues landed in my home to put colors on my daughter, but she is not yet conscious about holi yet. Look at stupid me, did not keep any sweet at home in advance and could not offer anything to the visitors.. Face palm :(
After noon of holi, we (my toddler and I) went to the park, took a lot of beans, carrots for the rabbits did jhula and the day was over coyly. Now the second day is the action filled day. I must make up for the wasted day so I thought. Morning started with taking the 9 pillows of the sofa out remove the cover wash them off along with other clothes. Go to the park, buy stock of 3 kg papaya, 5 litres of milk, grapes, bananas, yogurts, vegetables (seriously, what would I do if I did not have this stroller ?!!) etc. Stocked it up, gave bath to Ada (now it is a struggle. In between managed to gulp some food when hungry. Constantly in every two hours I was aware of Ada's food need , so would make sure she eats and drinks water. Came evening, I took off to buy clothes to replace the pillows of my sofa. They wer very unsightly before made up of dirty looking clothes, that started tearing off exposing the polyeaster fibres. I took measurements and it is 20 X 32 inch for the large pillows (6) and 18 X 18 inch for 3 small pillows. I ventured out with Ada, made her climb the Dhakuria bridge ( she was super excited). My little baby walk all the way till the shop and we bought 7 meters of cloth. While coming back, we took an auto ride. Ada was super excited to have that joy ride over the bridge. We came back home. Dinner time, fed Ada, read books to her, play with her. About 9.30 PM when she slept, I slowly crawled out of the bed, stitched all the pillows till 1 AM in the morning. Next day, I got up at about 3 Am after catching up about 2 hours of sleep. Time to work, so I took up the job I would do when Ada is not around. I took invcentory of my entire wordrobe. arranged everything, threw some clothes that I was no longer fitting into. I had another nice new dress that I never wore and was wondering if I can wear them after I become thin. But finally decided to let go of it and gave it away. Arranged my clothes in order, felt really good.
Ada got up about 6.30 AM that day, so I had to keep her engaged, played with her, fed her, had a cup of tea and immediately after toilet went to the park with Ada. There usual stuff , let her play little bit and then go feed rabbit, then go play football, go to green coconut spot, buy vegetables or anything edible come back home. In between I managed to browse my mail box and there was this email of my student who has to submit an abstract for an international workshop and work had to be done. So, I decided to go to the lab the next day. Meanwhile after coming home feed Ada, giver her bath, feed her lunch, play with her till she sleeps. After she is all set for afternoon nap, I took out the old pillows, removed the polyester fibres and filled the new pillows. This took a while. After this job is done, I stopped it there, because Ada was already up. Then I took her to Garia Haat with me. The washing machine pipe is broken, I bought one while holding Ada tightly. We walked till the auto stop, there again took an Auto and Ada was ecstatic. The expression in her face was priceless. Once in Gariahaat, it is so crowded that a small person may get crushed. So I decided to quickly finish shopping. Bought a big jhula for home and that was so heavy that I had to return back home then and there. Luckily got a taxi and headed home. In the evening till 9.30 it is Ada's time, so played with her, fed her and took her to sleep, After she was asleep, I closed the mouth of the pillows, put the covers on and placed them back on the sofa. My todo list was still long, I was nowhere close to my target. I was supposed to clean the cobwebs, all the drawers, take inventory of the items, Well, now it is getting to a point where I am trying to evaluate myself on my efficiency. I installed the new swing on friday..
Saturday again I got up to coockoo's singing at 3 AM, started off with the tent, un-aseembled by Ada. I must assemble it before she gets up I said to myself, else she will stew parts everywhere and this piece will be useless. I bought it from Mumbai after all carrying it as a luggage. Successful after one hour. Next job was to check the cupboards of my bed room and I discoevered many lost items, that I was looking for a long time. Hurriedly I began my next job and that was to clean the cobweb. This had to be done before my maid came else I will end up cleaning the floor. Yup that was done. The next item was to clean the drawers, I managed to clean few of the drawers, found many new batteries and most importantly one screw that was missing for a while now from a chair. That chair was lying broken for sometimes because of that missing screw as well as the screw driver that can be operated on it. Somehow, I managed to find both, fixed the chair. So far so good. Very good progress I said to myself. Ting it was 7.30 AM and Ada is up. Played with her engaged with her to Park and het stuff till 9.30 AM. Back home arranged her to watch some rhyme and did my second yoga routine albeit only 30%. It was already 11 AM. About to put on my shoes, smelt something. Saw Ada has done potty. Went back cleaned her and then set for the lab with my daughter. All her things need to be packer e.g; a giraffe, a ball, water bottle, her wipe, biscuit and my laptop. On the way, she pulled the strong elastic of the giraffe and little bit of her skin was stuck in the elastic. I know it was hurtful I was driving and then she cried aloud. What can I do? I can't stop the car, inside the crowded place and cant focus on anything. It was nerve wrecking. Her cry was only getting louder and louder and my patience was running out. Luckily after 2 minutes, there came a signal and I managed to untangle her hand. Took her to the lab. Checked my students work, left her to play with my students and went for running errands. Withdrew cash, bought groceries, bought her green coconut and came back to lab, Fed her and then set up back home. Its time for lunch! Fed her lunched. Whatever was remaining in the plate managed to gobble up and went back to sleep with her. I was already sleep deprived and needed some good sleep. Both of us slept for good two hours and got up at about 4 PM. When she is awake, I dont venture into doing any of my todo. Just attend to her and play with her. One more batch of garia haat shopping was remaining that included toilet papers, kitchen organizer, chopping bord and a bottle brush. Repeated yesterdays ritual and took off for Garia haat with Ada. My little baby was excellent. Not even for a while she asked me to life her. We managed to take an auto and walked into the crowd. Could buy most of the stuff. What a co-incidence, I saw a shop that was selling the flowers I always wanted. These are the flowers to be stitched into dresses. My happiness knew no bounds. I bought all the listed items, heavy on one hand. The other hand tightly clasping my precious little sweetheart. She was soooo good. I was seating profusely, finally an auto fellow took pity on me gave us a ride to our home with of course some premium. Once home, no more work, it is Ada time. Slept at around 10.30 PM.. Time is almost running out just one day remaining and I have to still do considerable number of chores. Morning again at 3 AM, I arranged the kitchen with the new organizer. It took a while. Then my princess got up, the park and play ritual started and ended at 10.30 AM. Came home, determined to atleast complete remaining jobs. Started to clean the vegetable basket, washed, cut the veggies packed them and kept in fridge. Organized the fridge. In between I have to make chees for Ada's school, so took 2 litres of milk and started the job. Realized that Ada's stroller needed cleaning, so cleaned that. Then saw all our shoes were extremely dirty, cleaned 6 pairs of shoes. Cleaned Ada's tri-cycle, cleaned a along velvet chair, cleaned yoga mats. My little princess would come in between ask me food or ask for attention. I would instead ask her to help me bring things which she would all so gladly. Then is the time to clean bathroom. Then next turn is to clean the table, beds. Some of my clothes were having stains, I went on to do the stain removal on them as well. Run the washing machine (checked the leak has stopped - my fix is working!!). Fed Ada, gave her bath, myself took bath. Finally Ada is taking a nap and I am into this post. It was such a great 5 days where I did so many things that it makes me feel really very good.
Here are some of the listed items I did over these 5 days:
Fixed a chair, Fixed washing machine, Stitched pillows, cleaned closet, cleaned cobwebs, cleaned all the drawers and took inventory of the items. Took inventory of all the kitchen items, vegetables, groceries, fridge. Did loads of cleaning including 3 laundries, 6 pairs of shoes, yoga mats, kitchen dabbas, Ada's stroller, red chair, kitchen cabinets, cleaned cup boards, 6 chairs, Ada;s toys, balls etc. Regular cleaning suhc as daily dusting and cleaning Ada's mess is not included here. Bought and fixed a new swing, bought plants, bought kitchen organizer,arranged Ada's racks. All these along with taking care of a toddler that is feeding her 25 times in 5 days, cleaning and changing her. trying to potty train her, giving her bath, shampooing her, taking her to park, playing with her, reading to her, watching TV with her etc. etc. What I still could not do is to replace some of the plants and clean the plants. But hey no complaints. I am happy that I could write this blog post to document my super holidays yipee. Life of a mom :) :) :)
I am home alone with a toddler who needs constant attention and what could be done in this scenario is when she is asleep. However, she is super excited when she is home so, she does not taker her nap during the afternoon. It all started on 23rd March ( a compensatory off), 24th is holi, 25th is good friday and 26th and 27th are the weekends.
On 23rd actually there was holi in the building and in Kolkata, so could not venture out. But hey who worries, I have straight 5 days off.However, early in the morning managed to do a full sequence of yoga and pranayama before Ada woke up, yay!! Morning time few of my colleagues landed in my home to put colors on my daughter, but she is not yet conscious about holi yet. Look at stupid me, did not keep any sweet at home in advance and could not offer anything to the visitors.. Face palm :(
After noon of holi, we (my toddler and I) went to the park, took a lot of beans, carrots for the rabbits did jhula and the day was over coyly. Now the second day is the action filled day. I must make up for the wasted day so I thought. Morning started with taking the 9 pillows of the sofa out remove the cover wash them off along with other clothes. Go to the park, buy stock of 3 kg papaya, 5 litres of milk, grapes, bananas, yogurts, vegetables (seriously, what would I do if I did not have this stroller ?!!) etc. Stocked it up, gave bath to Ada (now it is a struggle. In between managed to gulp some food when hungry. Constantly in every two hours I was aware of Ada's food need , so would make sure she eats and drinks water. Came evening, I took off to buy clothes to replace the pillows of my sofa. They wer very unsightly before made up of dirty looking clothes, that started tearing off exposing the polyeaster fibres. I took measurements and it is 20 X 32 inch for the large pillows (6) and 18 X 18 inch for 3 small pillows. I ventured out with Ada, made her climb the Dhakuria bridge ( she was super excited). My little baby walk all the way till the shop and we bought 7 meters of cloth. While coming back, we took an auto ride. Ada was super excited to have that joy ride over the bridge. We came back home. Dinner time, fed Ada, read books to her, play with her. About 9.30 PM when she slept, I slowly crawled out of the bed, stitched all the pillows till 1 AM in the morning. Next day, I got up at about 3 Am after catching up about 2 hours of sleep. Time to work, so I took up the job I would do when Ada is not around. I took invcentory of my entire wordrobe. arranged everything, threw some clothes that I was no longer fitting into. I had another nice new dress that I never wore and was wondering if I can wear them after I become thin. But finally decided to let go of it and gave it away. Arranged my clothes in order, felt really good.
Ada got up about 6.30 AM that day, so I had to keep her engaged, played with her, fed her, had a cup of tea and immediately after toilet went to the park with Ada. There usual stuff , let her play little bit and then go feed rabbit, then go play football, go to green coconut spot, buy vegetables or anything edible come back home. In between I managed to browse my mail box and there was this email of my student who has to submit an abstract for an international workshop and work had to be done. So, I decided to go to the lab the next day. Meanwhile after coming home feed Ada, giver her bath, feed her lunch, play with her till she sleeps. After she is all set for afternoon nap, I took out the old pillows, removed the polyester fibres and filled the new pillows. This took a while. After this job is done, I stopped it there, because Ada was already up. Then I took her to Garia Haat with me. The washing machine pipe is broken, I bought one while holding Ada tightly. We walked till the auto stop, there again took an Auto and Ada was ecstatic. The expression in her face was priceless. Once in Gariahaat, it is so crowded that a small person may get crushed. So I decided to quickly finish shopping. Bought a big jhula for home and that was so heavy that I had to return back home then and there. Luckily got a taxi and headed home. In the evening till 9.30 it is Ada's time, so played with her, fed her and took her to sleep, After she was asleep, I closed the mouth of the pillows, put the covers on and placed them back on the sofa. My todo list was still long, I was nowhere close to my target. I was supposed to clean the cobwebs, all the drawers, take inventory of the items, Well, now it is getting to a point where I am trying to evaluate myself on my efficiency. I installed the new swing on friday..
Saturday again I got up to coockoo's singing at 3 AM, started off with the tent, un-aseembled by Ada. I must assemble it before she gets up I said to myself, else she will stew parts everywhere and this piece will be useless. I bought it from Mumbai after all carrying it as a luggage. Successful after one hour. Next job was to check the cupboards of my bed room and I discoevered many lost items, that I was looking for a long time. Hurriedly I began my next job and that was to clean the cobweb. This had to be done before my maid came else I will end up cleaning the floor. Yup that was done. The next item was to clean the drawers, I managed to clean few of the drawers, found many new batteries and most importantly one screw that was missing for a while now from a chair. That chair was lying broken for sometimes because of that missing screw as well as the screw driver that can be operated on it. Somehow, I managed to find both, fixed the chair. So far so good. Very good progress I said to myself. Ting it was 7.30 AM and Ada is up. Played with her engaged with her to Park and het stuff till 9.30 AM. Back home arranged her to watch some rhyme and did my second yoga routine albeit only 30%. It was already 11 AM. About to put on my shoes, smelt something. Saw Ada has done potty. Went back cleaned her and then set for the lab with my daughter. All her things need to be packer e.g; a giraffe, a ball, water bottle, her wipe, biscuit and my laptop. On the way, she pulled the strong elastic of the giraffe and little bit of her skin was stuck in the elastic. I know it was hurtful I was driving and then she cried aloud. What can I do? I can't stop the car, inside the crowded place and cant focus on anything. It was nerve wrecking. Her cry was only getting louder and louder and my patience was running out. Luckily after 2 minutes, there came a signal and I managed to untangle her hand. Took her to the lab. Checked my students work, left her to play with my students and went for running errands. Withdrew cash, bought groceries, bought her green coconut and came back to lab, Fed her and then set up back home. Its time for lunch! Fed her lunched. Whatever was remaining in the plate managed to gobble up and went back to sleep with her. I was already sleep deprived and needed some good sleep. Both of us slept for good two hours and got up at about 4 PM. When she is awake, I dont venture into doing any of my todo. Just attend to her and play with her. One more batch of garia haat shopping was remaining that included toilet papers, kitchen organizer, chopping bord and a bottle brush. Repeated yesterdays ritual and took off for Garia haat with Ada. My little baby was excellent. Not even for a while she asked me to life her. We managed to take an auto and walked into the crowd. Could buy most of the stuff. What a co-incidence, I saw a shop that was selling the flowers I always wanted. These are the flowers to be stitched into dresses. My happiness knew no bounds. I bought all the listed items, heavy on one hand. The other hand tightly clasping my precious little sweetheart. She was soooo good. I was seating profusely, finally an auto fellow took pity on me gave us a ride to our home with of course some premium. Once home, no more work, it is Ada time. Slept at around 10.30 PM.. Time is almost running out just one day remaining and I have to still do considerable number of chores. Morning again at 3 AM, I arranged the kitchen with the new organizer. It took a while. Then my princess got up, the park and play ritual started and ended at 10.30 AM. Came home, determined to atleast complete remaining jobs. Started to clean the vegetable basket, washed, cut the veggies packed them and kept in fridge. Organized the fridge. In between I have to make chees for Ada's school, so took 2 litres of milk and started the job. Realized that Ada's stroller needed cleaning, so cleaned that. Then saw all our shoes were extremely dirty, cleaned 6 pairs of shoes. Cleaned Ada's tri-cycle, cleaned a along velvet chair, cleaned yoga mats. My little princess would come in between ask me food or ask for attention. I would instead ask her to help me bring things which she would all so gladly. Then is the time to clean bathroom. Then next turn is to clean the table, beds. Some of my clothes were having stains, I went on to do the stain removal on them as well. Run the washing machine (checked the leak has stopped - my fix is working!!). Fed Ada, gave her bath, myself took bath. Finally Ada is taking a nap and I am into this post. It was such a great 5 days where I did so many things that it makes me feel really very good.
Here are some of the listed items I did over these 5 days:
Fixed a chair, Fixed washing machine, Stitched pillows, cleaned closet, cleaned cobwebs, cleaned all the drawers and took inventory of the items. Took inventory of all the kitchen items, vegetables, groceries, fridge. Did loads of cleaning including 3 laundries, 6 pairs of shoes, yoga mats, kitchen dabbas, Ada's stroller, red chair, kitchen cabinets, cleaned cup boards, 6 chairs, Ada;s toys, balls etc. Regular cleaning suhc as daily dusting and cleaning Ada's mess is not included here. Bought and fixed a new swing, bought plants, bought kitchen organizer,arranged Ada's racks. All these along with taking care of a toddler that is feeding her 25 times in 5 days, cleaning and changing her. trying to potty train her, giving her bath, shampooing her, taking her to park, playing with her, reading to her, watching TV with her etc. etc. What I still could not do is to replace some of the plants and clean the plants. But hey no complaints. I am happy that I could write this blog post to document my super holidays yipee. Life of a mom :) :) :)
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