I wrote a post long time back complaining that bringing up two boys without a father is stressful! Motherhood or single parenting is definitely not for wimps My sons not only text each other from the loo, they leave us women at home and go partying out together. Sometimes the results are disastrous I have [...]

For the past almost two years Kid#1 has been one foot in Philllipines and one foot in home sweet home.  To me who has not been out of town for years on end it sounds exciting. To him who hates Phillipino food, it sucks bigg time.  Apparently they add sugar to all the food.  Every [...]

I think I really had it easy as a kid.  Was the first daughter after a long ffffffffreaking long run of male children and made much of. Then I had two sons …. Even the dogs I had were male ….. The cats I kept did not matter since they know they do not belong [...]

I have been a single Mom since Kid#2 was 2 years old, and Kid#1 was 10 …… Sorry to burst your bubble! This is not a Main Bechari post, because its been great! It has dawned upon me bit by bit that the only essential thing one has to have to play any role in [...]

Yes it is! I am absolutely proud to belong to a country where a natural messy function like reproducing the species is deified and immortalized by movie dialogues like “Mere Paas Maa Hai” and a movie becomes a runaway hit because “Its all about loving your parents”. Yes sirs and madams, I am proud to [...]

My sons and daughter in law have decided that I am incapable of looking after myself.  It doesnt help matters that I love to cook – exotic stuff, if I repeatedly do dal+ghia+roti, I sleep walk through the cooking process, and the food is forgettable.  Blech!  Even I wouldnt eat what I dish out! Any [...]

Kid#2 is in college …. and has finally become a man His Yahoo chat used to be “I am an unopened package” Now it is “Yoohoo I am a man now” Well, hoping to dig some dirt and graphic details for some explanation I rang up Kid#1 Me : What is Kid#2 up to?  Saw [...]

HOLI HAI!! There are so many kinds of Holi revellers: 1.  SPORTS ENTHUSIASTIC HOLI REVELLER The first is the kind that gets gujiya, water guns, water balloons, gulal, permanent color into place a few days before the event.  Then he gets his Bahadur, kids etc to join in filling the water balloons the night before [...]

When I was a kid, I thought the world owed me much, just because I got born in it.  This feeling had much to do with the fact that I was the only girl, and made much of by my grandparents, who I had conned into thinking that I was a saintly doll.   At the [...]

Every one loves potatoes.  This is something I can say without fear of repercussion.  Aloo, spuds, potatoe, whether they come from Haldwani or any where in the world are my everlasting love.  I seriously think the major reason for my being a lapsed Jaini is that they wanted me to feel guilty about sinking my [...]