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Scribbleville
This week is Read Across America week! It is Dr. Suess birthday on March 2nd and this week is celebrated in his honor. I have read a lot of Dr. Suess books to my kids. I so wish I had these books to read when I was little. It inspires kids to read more. If…
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Home Sweet Home – Feels good to be back!
Ah it feels so good to be back in Seattle after a 5 week trip to India and London. It was a fun trip which was also boring at times and there were times I was just plain frustrated with so many people at once that I started contemplating some of the decisions that I…
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Random Musings
The memorial day weekend – a glorious 3 day weekend was spent cleaning our house. We had planned on going somewhere but we were not able to get a hotel in the last minute and we cancelled it. The kids had a great time playing what ever they wanted and watching a bit too much…
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Guestimation
In Sarath’s class, they have a jar which is filled with different items each week and the kids have to guess the number of items in the jar. Then they count the items and the kids who guessed the closest get a prize. So, on Firday, I was talking to Sarath about his day and…
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The Whatif Monster
Yesterday Sarath’s school had some pajama and book party where they had a person named Michelle read a few books to the kindergarten kids. Michelle is an author and illustrator. She talked about how she listened to her heart and followed her dreams. It was interesting to see a room full of kindergarten kids sit…
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Wordless Wednesday – Blogathon Post 15
This was drawn by Sarath in his art class at school.
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Can’t wait to grow up – Blogathon Post 7
Today at dinner time, Sarath was refusing to eat something and I came up with a simple story about some food that did not like until I tried it 3 times. From there the conversation went like this: Sarath: When did this happen? Me: in 2002. Sarath: Were you an adult at that time? Me:…
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The journey to Dream Land…..
Every day bed time is something that I love and hate for various reasons. When it is time to go to bed, somehow the kids just know that they can delay it as much as they want. Sarath just takes the longest possible time to brush his teeth and Sanjay wants to brush his teeth…
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Little things in life…
That make me happy 🙂 – When I get a few moments to finish my tea in the morning before the kids wake up. – When S wakes up with me and we have 5 – 10 min to just chat while sipping tea or cooking. – When I see Sarath and Sanjay wake up…
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To find the balance between kids and work
I have always seen myself as a working mom. My mom was a working mom and she was amazing at balancing her time between work and home. So, after I graduated, I seriously started looking for jobs and unfortunately in my case no one was ready to sponsor a work visa even though I had…