About second chances

I had ditched blogging and went awol from the internet for a long time for multiple reasons. One of the most pressing reasons was my concerns as a parent about posting pictures of my child.

I was a delirious mother whose world revolved around one tiny person.  I enjoyed every bit of it. Becoming a stay-at-home-mom was perhaps not the wisest career decision I have taken, I am not known for taking worldly wise decisions anyway. I recorded the most mundane moments from our world and shared it here. Infancy gave way to childhood and our relationship as mother and child also evolved. Increasingly I wanted to respect his privacy. It was also time for me to do some soulsearching. There are many private struggles I am not ready to talk about yet. 

However, that is not what I want to talk about today. This is about starting afresh. I had taken a long break from academics and started doing my PhD two years back. Almost all of my friends have settled in their jobs, have crossed professional milestones, most of them completed their PhD's and here I am with a million ongoing projects (none completed) and crises (oh the crises) and the only steady development is that I am raising a child. I have my own doubts about how well I am doing the raising part as most of the time it is him raising me than the other way around, but I am doing okay more or less. I have a lot of uncertainties ahead. But that is not what I want to talk about either. 

What I miss about blogging is the carefree way one could go about writing. I miss that. Increasingly I am editing and editing and again editing what I write a thousand times and I miss the spontaneity of clicking the 'new post' tab and just typing it out. I am here for that. I want to write and write and not edit. Blogging is probably a dinosaur right now, but who wouldn't agree that dinosaurs are cute as an idea. I have taken a second chance with studying again, I will soon be looking for jobs again(I miss the morning hustle of going to work), and I simply do not want this space to die out.    

Long Time No see!

I stopped writing this blog when life became unbelievably busy and when I thought I should give my son his due privacy now that he is a big child. Anyhow, lots of things happened in between. I joined a PhD programme and is half way through. The boy is in Class 1. We do all kinds of crafting all the time which I will update soon. I am not going to put this blog link on social media right now. But if anybody stumbles upon this and wants to say a quick hello, kindly do that in the comments and I will be supah happy about it.

Wild Flowers

The boy went out with his cousin and brought me back a bunch of wild flowers! This is all I ever want from you, kid! Nothing more and nothing less.. 

Let's build a play house!

Summer vacation is here and we have turned our 'let's entertain the kid indoors' mode on. It is too hot to go out during the day and without school and friends, the kid is bored as bored can be.

We made a play house for our little toy friends on the second day. All we used was old newspapers and old dupattas.

Here is how to make it.

Step 1: Take two sheets of newspaper and roll it tightly. Secure it with clear tape.

Step 2: Attach three paper rolls using clear tape to form a triangle. This is our basic brick to make the house. Now all we did was to make more triangles like this, attached them to each other until we found a desirable shape. 

We are getting there slowly, one triangle at a time. 

Each triangle unit was attached to each other with clear tape. I think now we have our structure ready. We chose a pyramid shape for our house. 

Final Step: Pick old duppattas of your choice and drape your house. Since my son's favorite colour is Orange, we went for two Orange shaded duppattas. Final step is ofcourse to shift all your lovely toys into the new playhouse! 

Voila! House! 

We are very happy with the results!

a late night desk

The Efficient German imported Himalayan Lazy Garlic grown in China

This is a garlic pod. It usually have multiple cloves of garlic which needs to be peeled, right? 

Now since we are in a country that boasts of their efficiency, here is a small example. Presenting the efficient garlic we got today.

When you peel it, it is one single garlic pod that can be sliced up like any onion you might have seen in your life.

The world that cooks with Garlic knows what this means! How awesome this feels! If this is a genetically mutated abomination, then I say, bring it on, Germans!

Now take a moment to think about this creation. Those who cook will know the repurcussions of a garlic pod like this.

Laters, garlic baby.

PS: It is actually himalayan efficiency. And it is called Himalayan Lazy Garlic :) Bring it on, exporters.

When we tried our andy warhol.

Just because we can!