The Beat in My Heart

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  • HobbiesI love gardening. I love indoor and outdoor plants. Indoor plants give any house the feeling of home. They brighten up the place and also give you clean air to breathe. Gardening is a good exercise too! Unfortunately, we live in a place where the summer lasts only 3 months and added to that, we have a small balcony where we can fit only 5 or 6 plants. So, I get disappointed by that but I still try to get the maximum benefit out of it. The next thing I love is scrap booking. I discovered this while I was home after graduation looking for a job. I was so bored and so decided to re arrange all the photos that were lying around in our house. Once I found out how nice it is to scrapbook and save the pictures, I was very excited. I have learn’t some amazing techniques and have improved a lot since my first scrapbook page 🙂 Now when we are on vacation, I look for some nice postcards or take some pictures just to include in the scrapbook. Cooking is another hobby of mine. I try to make fresh food everyday and always try…
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  • Shelter in Place – Week 2

    This is the second week of us being at home. Here is California, we have the shelter in place orders. We can only go out for groceries and emergencies. Week 1 was generally okay. Schools are closed and we are working from home. I always work from home, so that’s not new to me, but […]

    March 25, 2020
  • 2019 Recap

    2019 Recap

    As we come to the end of a decade, there are so many things I want to reflect on. I started my blog 10 years ago. The main reason for starting this blog was to capture the everyday moments which I might miss otherwise. I think it is safe to say that I did miss […]

    December 31, 2019
  • Diwali Message

    Diwali Message

    On Diwali this year, I got a lot of wishes as usual. One wish stood out in particular. It was from a neighbor whose son is the same age as Sarath. She wrote “Happy Diwali!! Thank you for being a great friend and part of my support system as I try it balance my family […]

    December 7, 2019
  • Lake Tahoe

    Lake Tahoe has been on our list of places to visit for a long time. in July this year, we finally managed to visit the place. We decided to go during the July 4th weekend. We weren’t able to finalize our plans until the last minute. The weekend before the 4th, we booked the hotel […]

    August 20, 2019
  • Artwork with reusable utensils

    Artwork with reusable utensils

    Sanjay had to make a project using reusable utensils for his sharing at school. This was his creation.

    July 3, 2019
  • My new space!!

    This is my umpteenth attempt to revive my blog. I had so many plans of moving to a self hosted site. I bought the domain and have had it ready for a while. I finally made the switch now. Life has become really busy after moving to CA. Not sure what the difference is. I […]

    June 22, 2019
  • Proud of Myself

    As everybody knows, mid term elections this year are very important. I am not an ardent follower of politics, but I do have my opinions and I follow the news carefully. After all what happens today affects not just me or my family now, but it will affect my kids in the future as well. […]

    November 6, 2018
  • Spring 2018

    Spring 2018

    Can’t believe it is already May!! Time has been flying super fast these days and I don’t think I am doing a good job of keeping up with it. Every weekend feels like we have lots to do and when Monday comes around, I am always exhausted. I keep thinking I have to change this […]

    May 1, 2018
  • Trip to Victoria BC – Day 3

    Here is the final post about our Victoria trip. Here are the previous posts – day 1 and day 2. On day 3, we had planned to go whale watching. We checked out of the hotel in the morning, and left for the harbor. Our whale watching boat was in the afternoon.  Since we didn’t […]

    October 29, 2017
  • Trip to Victoria BC – Day 2

    Trip to Victoria BC – Day 2

    Okay, here I am writing about our Victoria trip in bits and pieces. We went for a three day trip. I wrote about Day 1 here. On the second day, we had planned to go to Butterfly Gardens and Butchart Gardens. We booked this as a package along with the ferry. So, all we did […]

    October 11, 2017
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