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sorry, all the pics are blur! It was clicked from my cell phone. For my soon to be Birthday boy, Mama is being making so many things Party menu includes: White punch (I also have strawberry punch in mind) Beef cutlet Potato fries Pulao Creamy noodles Chicken xacuti Beef chilli fry Chickpea curry Raita Orange honey cake Fruit + custard I am so excited-nah, my little girl is even more excited, she is incharge of all the decorations! Please pray for my dear little Sparkle.

{Pretty Happy Funny Real} ~ Capturing the context of contentment in everyday life ~ {Pretty}  As we prepare Sparkle's 1st birthday, I am t rying out new cake recipes...This one's Orange honey cake.       {Happy} and am feeding some easy comfort food to my family   {Funny}  Standing up to my daughters expectation of being a fashion mom, I am experimenting styles on her hair ...and with this one I exhausted her colorful hairband   {Real}  when I am doing nothing, I am admiring my clean house!   More on contentment at Like Mother, Like Daughter

Sparkle will turn One in 9 days! Life moves so fast.. I am super busy these days, planing about food, decorations,cleaning etc. My little man is trying to walk and loves it so much when all clap for him on his successful attempts. Maple is such an encouraging sister. Sparkle just adores her. I am so looking forward for his birthday..

{Pretty Happy Funny Real} ~ Capturing the context of contentment in everyday life ~ Life is been pretty busy here at our Sunshine home, we had a nice break from our office and other routine for a week. And now are in a process of getting back to our work {Pretty} We were so happy to start our week, celebrating the festival of Onam . And super excited as it was Sparkle's 1st Onam. We dressed him in Kerala's traditional dhoti and served food in plantain leaf. My baby is looking so cute {Happy} A nice way to start back with our daily chores was to do a little cleaning & organizing.   I wiped off all the dust of a week from my dressing table and cleaned and reorganized the basket on my side table. It contains all my daily usage things. Before all these stuff always found on the dressing table lying around and than gradually lost in our everyday hurry. Thanks to Auntie Leila's ideas of De-cluttering and organizing  This is my work table, wh...

We celebrate Onam at my mom's place every year, and since it was Sparkle's 1st onam, it was even more special.

Ever since Sparkle was born I got into this phase of waking up late. Yes it was unavoidable during the 1st few months but lately its only a trick my mind kept playing with me. When the clock strikes 5 in the morning I am awake, however my lazy little mind tells me facts like "see you woke up so many times to feed baby, hence couldn't get your full sleep", "If you don't sleep well you will doze off at work"", "your back is paining, you need to sleep a little etc on your back rather then sides" etc..., oh there are many such facts that my mind tells me. And due to these so called important facts, I decide to sleep for another hour and thus concluding to all the rush hour at my home. One fine day, while folding the washed laundry of my kids(washed by my maid), I realized that all the clothes need a wash, that only their mother could give. No I am not complaining about the helping aid that I have at home, oh she is a blessing for us, since we...

we asked her to act! Is she crying for real? what an actor she is! This little hero wanted to climb up the coconut tree.

How is it? Maple loved it!   Finally! a dress was stitched for Maple and two more are in process. I am learning stitch the neck patterns (Problem area!), otherwise things are moving pretty well on that front. Apart from that, I washed the curtains of our living room and they look so fresh and clean. Other things done this weekend were: making cinnamon roll which was really good organized my cupboard and had an unexpected dinner with my parents and sister Hope all of you had a nice weekend too...

 15th August has always been an exciting day for us. Flag hoisting, mass and lot of great food & fun. We celebrated our 66th Independence day on 15 August! A salute to all our soldiers who guard our boarders and keep us safe. Jai Hind! Also celebrated the feast in our neighboring parish at Vasco. What a day we had!

We had a long weekend and had a visit to a fort turned into a museum near our house. The fort is so lovely and paintings amazing! Above all was the way Maple cared for Sparkle. She doesn't miss a chance to carry him. And he is all happy with her. more pics of the fort later!

{Pretty Happy Funny Real} ~ Capturing the context of contentment in everyday life ~ I am so happy to hear that we would be having an addition of another pretty, cute and graceful daughter-mother pair adding to the list at Like Mother, Like Daughter, God bless them abundantly! Getting started with capturing clicks of contentment, lets begin... {Pretty} In search of some flower from my garden, I found anthurium, there are plenty of them now in the garden now. { Happy} This candle stand has been at my husband's home, even before we were married. However, when I 'met' this one it was wrapped in white crepe paper (which was all dusty and torn). so I ripped off the entire mess, and left the poor stand without a dress for long time (I had not come across all these creative blogs then). Now that I have, I tried to dress the candle stand again! This is what it looks like now. :) The cream beads lace is from Maple's 1st birthday dress. I wrapped a m...

Time is an element that can be found if one really needs it. I have realized that in the past weeks; even though I had been working at office for weekend, we managed to not only buy a gift for a close family friend, but also visit the newly weds a day before the reception, study for an examination scheduled, attend a wedding reception etc etc...  Oh yes it was exhausting with two kids & equally busy husband, daily chores at home and list goes on. God always gives us strength, (or does he do some work for us! ;) ) So now I have decided to list out target/goals/milestones whatever for this month: Creativity is some thing that naturally gives a sense of satisfaction and peace to an individual, so every week or at-least every month must have some thing from this section, may be in form of baking, cooking, sewing, crafting, or may be simply assembling few fresh flowers from the garden into a vase. Faith and learning gives us the strength and courage to go through an...

{Pretty Happy Funny Real} ~ Capturing the context of contentment in everyday life ~ Oh, how I missed linking up with this awesome blog for past two weeks. Life was pretty busy last weeks. But now that August is here and I would be taking some days off from my office work to be with my babies (I am so happily looking forward for the days to arrive) and hoping to slow down a bit and give more time towards sewing, gardening, crafting etc. {Pretty} While in search of some old cloth for my sewing experiment, I dug out this dress from wardrobe, isn't the embroidery pretty? Now once I am good at sewing, I am planning to stitch a dress from it for Maple { Happy} I am so happy about my in-laws visiting us the coming week and that finally today is Friday- weekends finally here!   {Funny}  This is what Sparkle did when asked if he would miss my sister, once she is away studying in a far of college  She would be more than happy to pack him alo...