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Sparkle is again having fever.. Whats wrong with little guy?  We got his blood test done, he is less on hemoglobin.What do I do?

I am gonna put things in points: Will anyone believe if I say that I have found time since last Saturday to write down things in my mind. After the usual Saturday chores, we took sparkle for his vaccination. Its a bad thing to see your baby being pricked. After we were back, I made a chocolate cake, I know it was not in plans. The cake turned out so good, I guess finally I am getting a hang of baking. I can't tell u the joy I experience when my cooking venture turn out well. There were guest at my mom's place and my lil sister very smartly got me into some hard work... writing a speech. It was then that i realized that one may speak and master in many languages, however mother tongue is the only language in which they can communicate from heart. Church was long, coz i had to wait for maple Sunday school to wind up and hubby's youth meeting to conclude. Yes I know poor sparkle and me. He was so tired.... When I was home, there was more to be added to the speech we wer

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I am planning what new task to achieve this weekend. (I know i haven't bough a cell neither the shelf I was planning to! But hubby is still researching on that front, i will soon get them). However for this weekend I was thinking of some feminine touch to my house. I really admire the author of http://charmingthebirdsfromthetrees.blogspot.in/, she so good at giving a touch of femininity to her home. I am always inspired by her. So I have decided to take that as a job this weekend. The results will be posted, once the work is accomplished. Pray for me:)

I though to dedicate my today's post to my sisters. Though there haven't been a single day in our life when we haven't had a fight or verbal argument or something close before we ventured into our family life (except for our youngest sis), now we miss each other every single day. Me being the eldest was always the bossy one i suppose. While Tens (2nd sis) was the coolest & witty one, and tins (the youngest) pampered ram. Tens and myself were mostly in same kind of dress leaving Tins the odd one out. They were like; such little things when I had left home for educational and working purpose. And when I came back what do I see? Gorgeous young ladies! Girls do grow fast. Tens always had this amazing quality of  calming other by cracking jokes and talking peacefully. She was a favorite at church, social function. Even in her family life she handles everything so well. 'Patience'... that's what make things happen for her.. Not my cup of tea. That 'P&#

Now That I am busy fulfilling the demands of my darlings: Sparkle (He is developing his share of likes and dislikes- lots of new food to eat), Maple (enjoying her summer camp-with lot of to do activities), I realize that i haven't been able to give myself some personal time. So now I have decided that even if its for 10 min I am gonna sit with myself. Things that I intend to do is: 1. Self grooming-after joining back to office, grooming has reduces to a rough use of comb (only if my hair could speak, they would be yelling out at me!) So to do would include oiling hair 2s a week and 1 elaborate session of shampooing and conditioning. once a week facial scrubbing (its been ages since I have done that) Regular use of under eye cream.  2. Reading: My god when did I last read something (Six months back I guess). I must read, read, read something at least everyday. 3. Cooking something special every weekend. Yes, it really should make me very happy; me alone making a desse

With Sparkle at home, I hardly manage to get any time for tidy up or organizing our home. Its all in mess, due to my rushing for work and they hurrying to cook dinner. And then I wait for Saturdays.. But now I decided that, i shall try my level best to avoid stuff lying around. Need to fix places for wanderers. Some of the stuff that keep wandering around include: 1. Hair brush 2. Office bag 3. Laptop 4. Maples school bag 5. Toys 6. scissors 7. Match box 8. Clothes/towels I am on hunt to find furniture and storage equipment at home that are not being used as are to, so that I may possible be able to give some of the above shelter. However for stuff like clothes/towels that need to be handy I guess I need to buy some hooks. I found two items that I think I need to buy : http://www.ebay.in/itm/Hand-Made-Wooden-Iron-Wall-Self-With-Hooks-Stand-/190820022543?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_203&hash=item2c6dc2790f http://www.zansaar.com/wall-tile-hook-sunny-sunflowers-p-NAIVLT246

After a break of 6 months, i have joined back office. Oh I did miss my work, though it was overshadowed with the happiness of seeing sparkle grow. I can't believe that I left this place on 8th October hoping to come back & finish all my unfinished task and instead I was on the operation table the next day and had my sparkle come to this world.. Life is full surprises! First day to office... I am lost, don't know from where to start. And over everything I am worried to know how Sparkle's doing without me. So I kept pinging my sis, and she send me his pic, that was some relief. He was a good boy. I didn't make a hell out of the house. Had his cereal and milk. I did visit him during my lunch break, he was very happy to see me, and nearly pounced onto me. It was Maple who missed me a lot, she was upset when I was going back after my lunch break. But that life, I need to maintain an identity of mine other than being a mother, wife and daughter.

March month was like a storm, it came and went by and I didn't even realize.We visited my in-law for Easter. And with sparkle its like I am dreaming, he is 6 month old already Oh i thoroughly enjoyed our Easter. Maple made so many friend there, she was almost playing with them for the whole day, will post some pics later. here are two new clicks: April will start with me going back to my routine office work. Hence inorder to avoid the monotonous shades in my life, I have planned to add all new color into it. begining with: 1. puchse of a new cell phone to capture every thing tat make me smile and happy 2. Buy a sewing machine to try my hand into making things 3. making more clear area for my sparkle, whoz soon gonna explore things and places around him.

Maple was down with fever, sparkle's again got cold and a little fever ,my sis met with an accident, Mom is down with back pain, daddy is visiting doc... O god! why are all my dear ones in pain? God please help all of them to recover; reduce their discomfort and pain. During this Lent gives us the strength to build ourselves to await and celebrate the resurrection of our God. During this lent period I try to bow down onto the ground 40 times and pray for all who are in need of gods mercy and blessing. -Pray for girls who await for the sacrament of marriage to happen in their life. -pray for expecting mothers -pray for people who are suffering with health issue -pray for children, their health, education. -pray for people who are with out food. God plz have mercy on us, we are frail, u r our strength. Give us strength and let peace and happiness, prevail in our lives. Praise to almighty. Amen

Its kind of boring to repeat dishes over and over again, hence i have decided that I shall try out something new every week (everyday is little too much to expect from this poor mom). Seasonal fruits or veggies are excellent. We buy them fresh and can use them for almost a week. Its like just hunt in your fridge and get the stuff. And what did I find in my fridge was some raw mangoes!  hubby dear had bought them to make his favorite mango coconut milk curry. But I had to try some thing new with them (I did save a few mangoes to make his dish later). My cutie friend had once taught me to make this recipe when we were at hostel. Its the sweet mango pickle or sauce! So I made some dhokla and sweet mango pickle! Though dhokla didn't turn out they were supposed to, but they were good, thanks to the sweet mango pickle, it covered up all the flaws in my dhokla. So dhokla recipe will come up once I master in it myself. But for now My sweet mangoes pickle is here! Ingredient:

Praying during Lent gives a sense of being part with the suffering of our Christ. I picture all those who are in need of my prayer, try to feel the pain that they are going through and pray for each of them... the after effect is so calming. My God show mercy to all who are in need. My aim during this jouney through the lent period: 1. Try not to get angry 2. Avoid Gossiping 3. Pray for all who I know  4. give away thing that are not being used by me, so that someone else may use it. 5. stay away from feeling jealous. let see how many of these i may be able to achieve.

My poor lilttle baby is just recovering from fever n cold! O god thank you for making him feel better.

 Now to start back with my chart on to do activities. Since Feb is almost gonna bid me goodbye and March is gonna be super exciting. I though of not pushing myself a lot into the area of experimenting. However, I shall try out something may be hmmm..... in the kitchen. With lent going on, eating menu is become very redundant so let me see wat i can do on tat front. 1. Try to make eggless cookies 2. Rearrange ma little girls room. Its become a mess with sparkles' clothes and things all around  

Maternity leave did give me a chance to understand that I work a lot, as a professional. However being a full time mom is not easy either. Making kids feel that they are important all the time is the real key to become a real super MOM. Now with two kids at hand, I decided not to cry all time on how difficult it is and get into some serious task, so that I have no time to cry :) I got into cooking, more specifically baking. However, as i don't have a oven or even a microwave, it was discouraging. Solution was pressure cooker oven! How I got into pressure cooker oven i shall shell out the details later For baking in a pressure cooker, u need: A large pressure cooker, above 6 liters Remove the washer and the weight of the cooker and place in a utensil that would give u a height so that ur baking pan doesn't come in touch with the base of the cooker Now the Receipe: I made a chocolate cake (eggless) 1 1/2 cup Maida 1 cup butter 4 tbspn cocoa 1 cup sugar 3 tbs

sparkle has started to roll over.. In another two months I would be joining back to work:(, I wold have loved to stay back and care for my kids all through the day. Job I have is something anyone would give all he has for! So i got to manage being a working mother for some more years. And I do understand that I have to effectively use my qualification. The certificates that I slogged to get needs to be in it deserved place, so can't crib about it... And I enjoy working, however feel a little guilty that I may be missing out on some fun.. Life is like that, there is always a choice one has to make!

When it comes to taking decisions, its always good to do it on your own for yourself. Face whatever the consequence is, however we can always ask other for different option available, ways to decide from. But the ultimate decision must be self made. The word "Decision" can be diversified into vocabularies like will, choice, opportunity utilized many more. They are all relative phase that requires a decision o be taken at the background. Marriage is an important juncture where one must take the big step. But then for one to feel that he/she has taken the right decision or choice is not only theirs efforts, its a joint effort of both the partners. When a bride comes into a family, she is no ways related to  the member of the new family except through her husband, vice-a-verse with grooms too. However the new husband don't feel the pressure coz they stay in their nest even after the big day.So the phase of just married is very responsible phase for the new husband, to mak

Is my pops bday! we going out for dinner, a big family dinner.

My God, what a long break was it? Getting little time for myself was becoming is such a task. Muffin must be renamed, it kind of doesn't suit my boy, so me gonna call him sparkle! He is such a sparkle to my life. With him around life is so full, and den we had his 1st Christmas, christening, which was followed by a wedding in the family. oh, it was so very busy... Sparkle will complete four months this 9th, wow time flies.Maple is just waiting to carry him around, now that he is getting control of his head, i guess Maple's wish gonna fulfilled soon. Christmas was amazing, though I didn't get into extensive decoration, it was Maple who was in-charge of the Christmas tree and decor. Then christening was in such a rush, we hardly had time for preparing. It was however such a jolly time, we had Maple's bday and Sparkle's christening on the same day, what fun it was! Though sparkle didn't enjoy his christening as much Maple did. But all adults did, our extended fa

Our anniversaries, 6th one... too cool na. I just cann't get thing straight into my mind that I am married and mother of two. It such a blessed feeling.