Rain musings

Sanja was enthu to celebrate Holi after she had listened to our tales of Holi celebration in the past. The our includes me and my mom. Every holi we remember the fun we had when we lived in Blore and the all the families in the compound celebrated holi with great enthu. It would take several baths to rinse of the colors. Staying with neighbours who were Rajasthani made us celebrate holi in its true sense. At end of day Mom was orange in color and it wouldnt leave her for a few days ;). So hearing these stories , Sanja was asking us if we can also do this colour splashing at home and we indulged her with little bit of pink, blue, orange and purple.Granny has stored the color packets safely. Hence it helped.  Being a working day , we kept the celebration to just 15 minutes.  But those 15 min were the best having a colorful kid running across rooms and painting colour on her mom, dad, grandpa and granny. Her granny went one step further and poured bucket of water on her in the backyard.

For the past few days we ( esp my mom --your daughter and me ) have been thinking about you. What fun we used to have? How Sanja is missing the experience of being with you. I remember you as the 70th something kid playing  palankuli, parama padham. Fighting with your daughter when she cried you made some cheating moves , calling your grand daughter to settle the disput :P. Your kollu pethi is missing all this. wish you had lived some more years healthy to see me get married and provide one more team mate for the games . The way we used to pull your legs when you were watching the mega serials. How you used to complain to my amma like a child - ava rendu perum enaku tv veka mathengara ...( those 2 are not keeping the tv for me). The way you used to put food in our plate secretively ;) and say you had nothing to do with that extra food in our plate. The affection you showed by make necklace type muruku (savories) for me for the festivals. The way to adjusted to life as situat

yes it is long lost as in the post is delayed by almost 7 months :(. So here are the updates of her birthday celebration as I remember . This time around we had 2 cakes - one was ordered and another was a tutty-fruitty cake baked by me. I guess this will become a tradition of sorts for the years to come since 1. Sanja has a huge friends gang in our locality. 2. S Grandpa  ceremony is around this time -so the elders at home wont take outside food. This birthday  we ordered a photo cake with chota bheem and his friends . Sanja was and still is crazy about anything Chota Bheem. She is tired of the episodes but loves the characters. It has become a nighttime ritual for the gal to hear to chota bheem adventure stories spun by S . :) So coming back to the birthday- It again fell on working day and so we preponed the celebration to a weekend. Inivited her friends and cousins. The decorations were that of princess balloons and paper hangings. This time we invited 2 of her scho