being the (woe)man of the house April 10, 2009
Posted by preetischronicle in Little V, holiday time, hubby, this is me.7 comments
Hubbie isn’t home these days and little V and me are missing him like crazy. I always pestered him to do more stuff around the house, and now I cant’ bear his absence. All I am begging for now, is to sip tea with him in the morning, a drive to my office, a call in the day, a drive to the market, a glass of water when I don’t feel like budging from where I am and of course a peck on the cheek and a surprise hug. oooh! we miss him. (Did I make all that sound like a list of tasks, well lets call it that, its pretty much what he does around here 
Rest of his life is devoted to his first wife ie his work. I also have plenty to crib about managing the bills, running around to fix gas supply and such mundane tasks, but I’ll spare you the rust. On another note, I kept up on my fights with him, some happened over phone and some over chats. Lets leave those too.
Little V and me decided to therefore not miss him so much and we are flying to him in a week’s time! hurray! We are all too excited and busy packing now. We’ve had two very bad weeks of not having him here and we can’t wait to be with him. Little V had his fabulous first flight when he was 5 months, and this will be his second. So, I am not going to say anything for fear of any sort of jinx *ward off evil eye* and will post in detail about our trip later.
While daddy has been away, Little V has been upto stuff. He now has a clear preference for his books vs his toys and can spend hours looking at them, upside down, pointing at every little detail. Watching him so engrossed in all this, is an all time high for me(yet). He is also particularly fascinated by a certain fisher price toy of balls of several colors and sizes (I cant find the link for it), its the longest he’s been attracted to one toy. And it is by far the simplest of toys in its make but a lot can be done with those half and full balls. He also now does a little jiggle when any of his musical toy plays. He points to the fan and says fa fa fa. I think from mamamamama he is sort of saying mimimimimi for me which is very cute. He isn’t crawling yet, and trust me I am not at all sweating over it! He has all of his life to crawl to walk and it doesn’t bother me one bit. Very soon time will be gone and I will miss carrying him around everywhere. He can now position himself to crawl though and can be seen on all four limbs. He’s only moving backwards in this posture right now. Little V likes the fearsome huge dog our neighbors have and he’s always very delighted to see the pet. The moment I say ‘doggie’ Little V wants to rush to the window to catch a glimpse. Little V can also now get up and sit from a lie down position, which really shocks me, when did this guy learn to do that. I had been stacking away some of Little V’s clothes that he outgrew which I absolutely adored and hope to someday if and when I have another baby, see these clothes on it. I now have a humungous number of baby clothes, and I do not plan to store anything from now on. Some of them have memories attached and some are just so cute, I think I will never ever feel like letting go of them.
The past two weeks felt like ages and I am totally sleep deprived and love deprived right now and pray for me that the next week goes off soon. We will be in obamaland then!
our aus trip December 28, 2008
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Before the sunny memories and the beach waters fade away from a workaholic, baby doting, home managing mommy’s robotic brain, its time to make the Australia sojourn into a post that she could come back to once in a while and relive them. Robotic, yes that’s what having a baby and a job makes you.
Little V and mommy embarked on a plane journey to the land of the kangaroos to be with daddy, who thanks to the Australian babes wasn’t missing us much *wink*
We had our flight scheduled for 12:00am on the night of 6th Dec, and I wasn’t too comfortable that day for the reasons I mentioned here. All went very well with the security at our IGI Delhi airport, but for the very upset and cranky little V, who wanted to be held by mama and didn’t want to see the sight of his pram. So, I was running crazy at the airport, dragging a very crying little V, a stroller bag and two handbags. So much for my claim of packing light. I had decided to send off most of the stuff with hubby dear to be able to travel as light as possible, but how much can one pack with another week to spend alone back in India with all the essential stuff like baby bath seat etc. yet to be packed along. (ok, I can see I am boring you with all the crappy details and to that… there’s more coming).
The V in little V’s name is pretty smooth sounding pleasant name, but somehow caught the oh so vigilant eyes of the security personnel at the airport, so thai refused to check in our baggage without the two of us going through the immigration queue. It was funny to see the customs guy suspiciously look around for one Mr. little V next to me, only to be directed to a much tired and sleepy baby resting in the pram (after all the crying episode). And then we were allowed to check in our stuff.
The flight was smooth, little V was the most friendly person on board and smiled at just about everyone no cranky behavior, no cries and absolutely zero trouble baby. Except that he wanted to sleep in my lap through the journey.
We landed at the airport, and were greeted by daddy holding a rose for mommy and a big balloon saying welcome to Australia for little V.
If there is heaven on earth its in Australia. (ok well, I have been to Switzerland, heaven is there too…but if one goes there one feels like all Indians made it to heaven) ( and I haven’t been to New Zealand yet).
The sight of the harbour bridge on one side and the opera house on the other was absolutely thrilling. The Opera House is built on water and the scenic beauty is simply out of the world. The area around Opera House is called the Circular Quay (pronounced as ‘key’) and has numerous cafes which are usually bustling with people in the evening out for a drink or coffee. That’s the thing about Australia, the Australian way of life. Eat, drink and be merry. No matter what day of the week it is, one can see all of Sydney and Melbourne cafés spilling with people out for some good time.
On a ferry ride from Circular Quay is a place called the darling harbor, which houses the Sydney aquarium and the Sydney wildlife. The Sydney wildlife has some lovely koala’s and kangaroos, which one can almost go touch and feel.
The feel of walking around on the darling harbor is an experience in itself. Watching people having a good time, enjoying the lovely sun and the quiet breeze, interrupted by a nearby cafés loud music, is better experienced than put down into words here. Very near to the circular quay is a place called The Rocks. This is a place one could pick souvenirs from. Built in a very English classical look, its fun to meander throw its narrow lanes and sudden ups and downs of its terrain and pick up gifts for folks back home. Two of the very famous beaches of Australiaare the Manly beach and the Bondi beach. The manly beach is actually quite small from the looks of it, but is famous for its water sports, water skiing and surfing. When we reached manly beach, it was raining and we couldn’t go to the beach. We enjoyed some coffee around the area near the beach and hoped for a better day at bondi beach the next day. And our wish was granted. Bondi beach was simply awesome, very picturesque. It appeared that the entire nation was out swimming or sun bathing. Little V enjoyed the sun and the beach as much as mommy and daddy and made quite a beach baby! And all the bikini clad women were smiling at him .. ignoring daddy, much to the relief of mamma.
We stayed in Melbourne for 2 days. Melbourneis a lovely city. Its lovely architecture and the way the yarra river flows through it, lends the city a very idyllic view. Melbourne has several auditoriums that hold art festivals and plays and one could see huge billboards all over the city about the shows on in them. Melbourne they say is the shopping capital of Australia and while hubby dear was busy for a day at meetings, little V and I spent quite sometime shopping for everyone and enjoyed ourselves to the hilt. We also went to the eureka sky deck, which is the tallest building in Melbourne and offers a view of the city from the 88thfloor. It was marvelous to see the sun setting in from the sky deck and the yarra river crisscrossing through other huge buildings of the city. We took a tour of the dandenongs in melbourne, which was quite thrilling too. Dandenongs are low mountain ranges near melbourne and offer great views of the melbourne city. We spotted several wild birds and managed to click pictures with them.
The Australian people are exceptionally friendly and have a penchant for enjoying life, come what may. Several young and old Australian people would often strike up a conversation with us. We were told that bollywood is quite a rage in Sydney, several bollywood theme parties are often organized and Australians enjoy hindi movies and music. Since I lived in the US for a few months after marriage and have seen parts of Europe. I would certainly rate Australia much higher, for its scenic beauty, its friendly people and for most importantly the Australian way of life.
I will do a pics only post for Australia shortly.
