Recently, I was asked by someone what my personal mantra was – what helps me to keep going through rough phases of life. This is a really difficult one. When we are going through rough times, it is really difficult to focus on the bright side of things. Even though we hope that everything will…
Weekend Snippets
This past weekend, I had to drive Sarath to his lab like every weekend. It is a 45 min drive one way. There is public transport available, but it takes 1.5 hrs to get there. So, to save him time, we usually drive him there and back. On good days, it takes us 1.5 hours…
Conversations
Last weekend I applied a hair dye on my hair. The one I usually use was not available and I bought another one to try. I just did not like it at all. While I was waiting for it to dry, I was doing some stuff around the kitchen and was talking to Sarath. I…
Having it All!
Happy New Year!! My mom was a working woman who managed to balance it all beautifully. She has always been my role model. But, when I am trying to do it all and have it all, it feels so much more difficult. She made it look so easy even though I know it was not…
Washington DC
We finally made the trip to DC and New York this summer. It was a long awaited trip. The kids have been asking to go to NYC for a long time, but something or the other prevented us from making it happen. This summer we planned it in the one week window we had where…
Summer 2022 – Part 2
Read about our summer adventures part 1 here. As soon as I came back from India, my in-laws came to California from Denver. My BIL’s son and my SIL’s kids came with them. We had a full house. The kids had fun together. Then both my SIL and BIL families visited us and for one…
Summer 2022
I finally made the time to write about our summer. After two years of not traveling, this summer was a welcome change. The summer went by in a jiffy – maybe I should say summer vacation because in California, summer is not over until end of October. Our summer vacation was super busy yet relaxing…
Life Updates
I cannot believe it is already the end of April. As usual I need to catch up with so many things and I barely get the time to go for a haircut on a regular basis. Sometimes I feel like it is only April and so many things already happened this year. Sanjay went on…
Happiness Post
Happiness is watching cousins having fun together after two and half years. We drove to my SIL’s place over the winter break and the kids had a lot of fun. We hadn’t been there after 2019 Summer thanks to Covid. It was a shot trip, but felt good to see all of them. Happiness is…