ShradhaGiriblogs

ta ta kindergarten Like every other mom, I am paranoia when it comes to making life-changing decisions that concerns my little girl. She is a big girl now she says; I guess she is. She will be graduating kindergarten in a couple of months and my palms are already sweating. I think I am going to cry. I have embraced a wining baton when it comes to uncontrollable emotions.  Okay, I lied. It isn’t so much that her graduation is making me paranoid as much as it is the admissions for grade 1. My husband and I have actually worked it out. We want to admit her in a school that does not force us to go through the general application process. I have seen one of my friends almost go crazy last year – thankfully all turned out well. Am I in for a similar ride? I am already in that vicious cycle; I have not just realized it yet. I snapped out of it today when my colleague asked me why an international school? The first thing I thought was have you seen the lines in front of th...

I am seriously tired of listening to all the badly edited radio adverts reminding us about the Valentine’s Day.   By the way, the d in the day must be a capital ‘D’ that is how my laptop corrected my typo. It must be a big day. I have read a little here and there about the Valentine’s Day. Cannot remember exactly though. It is not important I tell myself. My husband and I have forgotten our wedding anniversary for the past three years consecutively. No, it is not something we avoid. The last one, we were happily immersed in a friend’s party completely oblivious to the fact that it was our seventh wedding anniversary. We drank, ate, chatted silly and went to bed. The next morning we both laughed off thinking how easily we have been forgetting our wedding anniversaries third time in a row. He is not a stickler for anniversaries and neither am I. I reason, we are busy, work, home, baby – we could forget any day. Back when we were dating in our teens, we never attempted to celebrate ...