Man-Ki-Preet !

  One kind of day!  Almost 4 hrs at walk in clinic to get Sara and myself checked.  COVID- negative - both of us 🙏 But things happen in periphery beyond COVID. Some coughs, and colds, some backaches and joint aches, some no energy whatsoever days. 5 ml of Benadryl - took more than an hour!  Do kids deliberately test us ?  This corner of mine.. when all sleep, I sit to just pause. Same mundane of every day life keeps going on everyday, and we keep getting older and older day by day. Life as an hourglass ⌛️.  Turned around every single day and reset ..  but then few moments make it a little different than day before.  So our tryst with Benadryl today!  Sara takes a sip, at least pretends to.. it touches her lips but its not going any lower than 5 ml mark. One of the days, she declared she will finish it in 63 sips. And she wanted me to count.. 63 sips it took!  Today, I thought, if 63 sips it is, let it be worthwhile.  I told her - ...

  Memories  Almost 10 pm here, and I am exhausted to the extreme. It has been an almost 17 hrs of awake time from break of dawn until now, doing the last important part of day, putting my children to bed and gently hold them both under my wings, as I sing kirtan Sohila to them.  As I lie down, watching their innocent faces, my heart says a thousand prayers of protection and comfort.. and as I slowly stepped out of their room, closing the door behind, I remembered a time when they were part of me, when I carried them in me, those divine months.  Pregnancy is a phase where  every mother has a unique journey. It has left me with treasure to cherish forever. I feel its that phase of my this life’s journey that transformed me every single second that a life grew in me. Those months where I knew my children exclusively and more than anyone else would ever know them. Each moment was a rosary bead where a relationship was presented to me with a depth, purity and sinceri...