2024-02-24 21:38
Dear paati, I miss you so much already. You were and will always be my favorite. You were my EVERYTHING since my childhood. My first love! My role model! My first fan! You left me and this w… Read More
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2023-02-01 01:56
Victory!!! 31 posts in 31 days!! I am impressed at myself! 😉 Can’t believe the Blogathon is over ~ 31 days of continuousness. 31 days of dedication! 31 days of writers block! 3… Read More
2023-01-31 00:19
To the lady who always smiles at me, You are such a sweetheart! Your warm welcome makes me feel super comfortable visiting the hospital every day. No matter what time of the day I come in, y… Read More
2023-01-30 01:57
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2023-01-28 04:58
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2023-01-26 20:44
People! Know what? I been posting consequently for 26 days! Quite an achievement it is!! Someone please pass me an award already! What should I write today? Hmmm…. let me think&hellip&hell…Read More
2023-01-26 03:14
…especially waiting for Lemon! Sometimes he makes me wait long. Sometimes he makes me wait for no reason! Uffff!!! What do I do with this boy? *** He says he will be home in 2 minutes… Read More
2023-01-24 02:08
Good News: Appa does not have cancer. All tests came back negative. Bad News: We have to admit him back in the hospital tonight to do additional tests/scanning for diagnosis. I am not sure i… Read More
2023-01-23 02:11
The School Bag 💼 . I see myself struggling to close the zipper. Oh! The school bag looks old but I still love carrying it to school everyday. The Green Water Bottle 💦. I see… Read More
2023-01-22 04:58
Today was busy. Kids and I performed at a Pongal dance festival. It was a huge get-together and we had so much fun. I’m too tired to write about it now and with just 2 minutes left for… Read More
2023-01-21 03:48
She surprises me all the time with a letter or a drawing! When I’m busy attending meetings, she takes a post-it note and writes “Amma I love you”. When I’m cooking, s… Read More
2023-01-20 03:46
Nap time which I once thought was a punishment feels like a vacation now Fast food which I once thought is bad food is now my favorite Work which I once thought was boring is now keeping me… Read More
2023-01-19 03:44
I woke up late today! I asked kids to buy school lunch. I sent them in school bus and started cooking lunch for the rest of us at home. Vengaya Sambhar, chow chow thogaiyal and kovakka fry i… Read More
2023-01-18 03:45
I value the importance of making time to be with my kids. Growing up I have fond memories of my Amma spending quality time with me and I want to leave my children with similar memories. So d… Read More
2023-01-17 03:57
That moment when you realize you don’t have to cook for the day That moment when you get a sense of relief after a lot of tension That moment when you meet your best friends That momen… Read More
2023-01-15 18:39
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2023-01-15 02:18
Appa is back home!! He had a biopsy yesterday and is doing good for now. He is a little tired but much better than how he was one week ago. We are going to have to wait for his biopsy &helli&hell…Read More
2023-01-12 01:46
I was driving to the hospital today, and suddenly I realized I was lost. The roads didn’t seem familiar at all. I was tensed! Why you ask? Because driving in Boston downtown is a night… Read More
2023-01-11 02:25
… is everywhere around me! It is frustrating to feel like every step we have taken to try to pull ourselves from the rut we have fallen into amounts of nothing. It is so frustrating a… Read More
2023-01-09 14:05
It has been a while since I saw you. This morning, I stood next to my window, sipping my hot coffee and was determined to find you. I looked from windows in my living room, my dining room, m… Read More
2023-01-09 02:34
… You feel grumpy. You get cranky. You cry! When it feels like you are running from one errand to another for 40 hours straight – You ignore the pending kitchen work. You pull a… Read More
2023-01-08 04:53
I was thinking a lot about the past today. A lot about how my Amma, Appa, Paati and I would spend time together. There were no major outings, no get togethers, no movies, no outside food, no… Read More
2023-01-06 23:19
It’s all white everywhere!! It’s winter!!!! What a beautiful sight it was today! Clouds, Wind and Snow! ❄️ #Blogathon2023 Read More
2023-01-06 02:05
1. Online Shopping This one, oooooh, this one is my recent favorite! I’ve never liked shopping online but this has become my favorite time pass these days. If I have free time, the fir… Read More
2023-01-05 03:59
Every one of us need “Me Time”. This is the time you need no one near you. Not your spouse, kids, friends or family. Not even those special people whose presence comforts you nor… Read More
2023-01-04 01:48
My life is strange indeed. As I type this post, a lot of things are going on in my mind. And it is all about my dad. For those of you who don’t know dad’s health has been deterio… Read More
2023-01-03 00:13
This is something I plan to take a lot more seriously than I always have. I admire people who religiously follow their exercise schedule. I for one have always struggled with this. I just la… Read More
2023-01-02 04:53
Happy new year everyone! How are you all? It’s been a while since I showed up in this space! Hope everyone is doing good. I’ve decided to show my blog some much needed love by pa… Read More
2022-11-01 12:09
Facebook made me feel very nostalgic today! Saw this pop up in my memories… I will never receive these parcels ever again! Miss these small joys from India!! 🥲 Miss you Amma … Read More
2020-02-04 18:00
TEN YEARS? It’s Insane! And Awesome!! It’s a lot of life lived together. Don’t you think? It sure is! Our 10 year journey includes 7 countries, 26 states, 5 homes, 4 jobs… Read More
2020-02-01 02:47
And we are done with the Blogathon…phew! It was’t easy at all. I huffed and puffed through each day almost at the nick of the time. I blogged from my phone. I blogged from my la… Read More
2020-01-31 00:32
I’ll wake up early. I’ll not snooze my alarm. I’ll cook something fresh for all of us. I’ll remember to kiss my babies before leaving the home and also switch off the… Read More
2020-01-30 02:05
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2020-01-28 18:21
When you are bored out of your mind and have a desperate urge to let out the artist trapped in you – what do you do? Simple. You pick up a nice zazzzzyyyy table cloth from your favorit… Read More
2020-01-28 02:14
Hey you! You are so much in love with spider man. Your face brightens up every time you see him. You want everything in red, blue, and black. You think you are going to become Spider-Man one… Read More
2020-01-27 02:49
People often told me how much I look like my mom. I always thought they meant in my nature and not personality. Nowadays every time I’m in front of a mirror, I see mom in myself a lot… Read More
2020-01-26 04:46
I was *this* close to not posting today. So so tired. We had friends over for dinner and I spent all day cooking and cleaning the house. The idea of blogathon is you have to post everyday no… Read More
2020-01-25 03:10
I wish to focus more on health this year. Too much has been happening to us recently and it’s high time we start focusing on ourselves. We really need to care more. Devote time for exe… Read More
2020-01-24 03:12
I had this vague look today. As I walked out of home, into my train and then into my office.. It was so vague that it took me a while to figure out what was happening around me. As the &hell&hell…Read More
2020-01-23 02:01
So this happened. We had the privilege to join 600+ people from many different countries and became a U.S. CITIZEN today. It’s been quite a journey! I’m sooooooooo full of emotio… Read More
2020-01-21 19:00
The day I borrowed my cousin’s cycle and rode it around our neighborhood for hours… I felt like a Princess who just got her Wings. The first time I performed on stag… Read More
2020-01-21 02:49
Today is a beautiful day! The sun is out and the the snow is thick and glorious. The happiness this weather brings me has compelled me to mention a few thoughts about . . . SNOW. There&rsquo&hell…Read More
2020-01-20 03:46
My to-do list is long and my bullet list is bursting. And it seems like I always have something to do or should be doing. I end up feeling guilty if I’m not being productive. So this w… Read More
2020-01-19 02:51
Am I a queen? Definitely! Am I a drama queen? Of course! “Drama queen“, These two words describe me the best! They say being a drama queen is a choice and it no longer shocks me… Read More
2020-01-17 19:46
* I created my fantasy when I was very young. As the only child I was always pampered and treated as a princess. I kept dreaming of a prince who would come free me from myself. That he would… Read More
2020-01-16 19:44
When a story begins with “Once upon a time..” we know it’s going to be a fairy tale. We know it’s going to be extraordinary. We know it’s going to have a happil… Read More
2020-01-15 21:23
Few months ago I had to make a choice. I was pressured to take a decision. There was so much noise all around.Too much was happening in life, at that point, and my mind wasn’t clear. I… Read More
2020-01-15 01:16
Alarm! Alarm! Time to rise. You have to wake up Lemon and Lime early today. But first you should get out of bed. Get up! You are late. Open your eyes! Wait! Where is Lemon? He is not in the… Read More
2020-01-14 01:43
She lost it again! This is the fourth time this is happening. She lost her first when she was 1.5 years old. Then another one around 2. Next at 2.4 and now again at 3. Every single time it&r&hell…Read More
2020-01-12 21:20
Keepsake is a very special thing that we keep to remind us of a person, or a place or a memory. It might have travelled with us in a suitcase from another country or we might have found it o… Read More
2020-01-11 19:51
Joy is what you feel when you have these in front of you. Many! Many of them. When you have no plans for the afternoon, you take a nice long shower, have your favorite lunch, grab a blanket… Read More
2020-01-11 02:24
This is a self-reflection activity I love to do today. It helps me to hone in on the good things in my life… Be it people, places, food or things. It doesn’t matter how big it i… Read More
2020-01-10 02:00
Today, I had to work from home since I had a doctor appointment in the afternoon. I woke up late. But just on time to pack lunch for the kids. Lime got ready, and was waiting for his school… Read More
2020-01-09 02:12
They are everywhere! Every time! Every day! They sneak up on me when I’m least expecting them. When I’m sitting quiet and minding my own business, they come from nowhere and ask… Read More
2020-01-08 03:45
If I had a magical mirror, a fairy godmother, a golden egg laying goose or a wicked witch in my life, I will not ask for anything else but a wish to slow the time. Or even just a pause &hell&hell…Read More
2020-01-07 04:00
It is late at night. I sit on my couch, listening to some random music. I see Lemon in the Kitchen reloading the dishwasher. (He is unloading the unwashed dishes I already loaded, and loadin… Read More
2020-01-06 01:34
There’s coffee. And the there is good coffee. To me however there is only “filter kaapi“. Growing up in Madras, the only drink my whole family loves is filter kaapi. We dri… Read More
2020-01-05 02:11
It was a lazy Saturday at the Lavender household today. Laziness laziness everywhere.. Here’s their story… Lavender woke up with a very severe headache badly wanting her morning… Read More
2020-01-03 23:25
Lime and Lily have very short attention spans. They get bored and become restless if the action is diminished. Be it with anything – toys, books, tv, and even games!! One thing they ar… Read More
2020-01-03 01:35
The past year had been quite stressful for me. Mainly because of my responsibilities as the only child. And, because I worry like hell! Added to that, I had to figure out a lot of things on… Read More
2020-01-01 18:25
It’s been the longest I’ve been away from my blog. A record absence of 8 months. Only because I did not want to talk about anything that’s been happening in my life. I don… Read More
2019-04-04 08:00
Happy Birthday to ME! On this birthday, there are lots of thoughts running through my brain, lots of things I am looking forward to, and lots of wishes. First off, I am getting old! Or at le… Read More
2018-04-30 20:28
…I write! Just randomly to kill time. — My train! It just left. I hate it when I miss my train on my way back home. Hate it even more when I just miss it by couple seconds! We t… Read More
2018-03-05 18:02
Come to think of it – Every day at work is crazy! Most of what we all do at work falls into one of the following 3 categories: “Need-it-now-kind”: [Things you don&rsqu&hell…Read More
2018-02-28 20:01
What I have noticed so far in my career is that we all (people) come up with great ideas and build something. Something the C-suite people in the company will like the mo… Read More
2018-01-31 20:17
Blogathon 2018 comes to an end. It was hard to think about something and post everyday. But thanks to my everyday commute. Most of my posts were written in the train. Somehow I managed to po… Read More
2018-01-31 01:23
There are moments in my life where I would just be nostalgic. So lost in memories. Such days trigger remembrance from the past so much that I totally forget the present. Today was one such d… Read More
2018-01-29 21:39
Last year, Lemon got me the famous Apple Watch as my birthday present. I didn’t like it at the first sight. But gradually it became my favorite. I don’t go anywhere without my de… Read More
2018-01-29 01:33
I am beginning to smell it. And I can’t stop smiling. For the first time in many years, Lemon is in the kitchen making tea for me. It’s been a while since he had made something s… Read More
2018-01-28 01:23
There won’t be much of a post from me today, because I’m super tired. It all actually started last night. Lily wasn’t well and woke up crying every now and then. I didn&rsq&hell…Read More
2018-01-27 02:01
I smile every morning as I walk into the kitchen and see the dish washer flashing green light called ‘Clean’. It makes me smile big. It tells me that Lemon did not forget to turn… Read More
2018-01-25 01:30
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2018-01-24 02:03
First of all, I thank her for letting me know about the flavorsome Tuesday yummy blog updates. *** Back in 2015, I blogged number themes that made the Blogathon easier. Now that I don’… Read More
2018-01-23 02:05
…traveling for about 2 hours to get back home from Office in a very cold weather, cooking dinner and feeding the kids on time… letting them play in their play room, and then wa… Read More
2018-01-22 03:06
I am in my most active space in the house. My kitchen. I am cooking my favorite dish. I keep adding this masala and then that and then a little bit of this again. Aroma of spices fill every… Read More
2018-01-21 02:53
Today was well spent..at the karate class, snow tubing at a ski mountain, and then having taco for dinner! #Blogathon2018 Advertisements Read More
2018-01-20 02:07
Currently I’m at a phase where I feel I’m extremely content with what’s happening in my life. I’ve had this positive feeling, once before, about 10 years back. It see… Read More
2018-01-19 01:53
You are so thin.. you are slow.. you are late for your class! You always say no to vegetables.. you don’t eat anything properly! You take a lot of time to get ready.. your hair is so s… Read More
2018-01-18 01:45
I sit in my favorite room in the house with a pillow behind my back and your tiny fingers wrapped around mine tightly. You kick me with your right leg. I look at you and you smile at me show… Read More
2018-01-17 02:32
Remember my last post about Poshmark? This is big guys.. I made two more sales today.. Yay!! I am a shopaholic and this app is so promising to earn while I shop more! Stop by my closet! Join… Read More
2018-01-16 02:14
I am not a big fan of Jewelry. But for a Christmas vacation how about something that’s really Christmassy and lights up? Right? I thought that would add some style to our holiday… Read More
2018-01-15 01:43
Happy Pongal, everyone! #Blogathon2018 Advertisements Read More
2018-01-14 02:56
I made sure I did not rise early today. I do have this inbuilt alarm in my body that wakes me up around 5 AM everyday. Thankfully, I managed to silence it today and treated myself with some… Read More
2018-01-13 03:22
Today was awesome. I met all my old colleagues for lunch. It was actually a farewell party for a friend. She was leaving the company (my old company). So the other close friend called me few… Read More
2018-01-12 01:53
It was just another evening at home. All of us were doing our own thing. While Lemon watched TV, Lime & Lily fought for the same spider-man toy. And you know I was as usual in the kitche… Read More
2018-01-10 21:24
One more day of office-commute; Two more days left in the work week; A Three day long weekend is coming up; It’s Four PM now; Hi Five 👋 to all of you who are reading this! Phew… Read More
2018-01-10 03:20
I am planning for a play date for Lime with one of his school friends. Lime is so excited. I baked a cake for Lily’s 20th month birthday. Here’s a pic I have already told you all… Read More
2018-01-09 01:23
Once upon a time, it was quite unusual for me to be out alone in the morning! Especially Monday mornings! These days, it’s my usual routine. I am in the commuter rail station… Read More
2018-01-08 02:06
When you have had a buzzing weekend which included completing the cleaning chores, taking a long hot shower, running to a movie theater to watch this, and to the mall to take advantage of th… Read More
2018-01-07 03:44
Amma and Appa sent us a parcel from India recently.. dresses for the kids, and snacks for us… Awwww… I still have some snack left.. Will finish it off this weekend. Lime loves… Read More
2018-01-06 01:31
Let me admit it – Disney Pin Trading was more fun to me than Lime! While Lime wanted all fancy good looking Mickey and Donald pins, I wanted all Princesses and Minnie pins. Lemon… Read More
2018-01-05 02:59
Snowpocalypse ! It started with gentle dusting in the morning which only lasted for a little while. As the day wore on, about 14.5 inches of snow came down with gusting winds and coastal flo… Read More
2018-01-04 01:32
Tomorrow Forecasters are saying this is real deal! Snow, wind, blizzard, minus temps! New England weather can’t get any worse. Lime’s school is closed. Lily’s daycare is cl… Read More
2018-01-03 01:24
Do you love Disney? Are you planning to go to magic kingdom? Do you want a Disney family shirt for less than $10? And do you want to make them yourself in less than 10 minutes? Read on&helli&hell…Read More
2018-01-02 04:59
I love fairy tales. I dream bigger dreams. I believe in magic. I love once upon a time and happily ever after’s And so we decided to spend the most wonderful time of the year in the mo… Read More
2017-12-13 01:19
…when there’s a snow storm during weekend? I enjoy the snow, take a picture and post it in my blog! …when I attend the largest Women’s conference in the countr… Read More
2017-11-30 19:57
WARNING: Long Random Post! I am not sure where to begin. I am not sure if I will make any sense but I know I needed to write here. It’s been a really long time. And, I swear. I… Read More
2017-09-01 16:07
There is something that I have been wanting to share in this space for a few weeks now. Now that I am comfortable, I am writing about it here. * * * Anybody who has been reading… Read More
2017-07-13 11:10
You can find many fancy versions of this wall art at Etsy for $400 or more! But I did the same for a lot cheaper the past year from this post. Frame – I couldn’t find a plain goo… Read More
2017-06-21 01:46
My dear Lime, You are FIVE. As I write this post, I will try hard not to cry. You sweet boy, my firstborn child, made me a mommy! From the moment I saw you, I knew I&rsquo&hell…Read More
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