the man I married August 28, 2009
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A tag that asks you to write 5 good things about the person you married has been doing the round on blogs. While no one tagged me, I decided to pick this up on my own and do a post for my husband. While I could go on endlessly about what all I dislike about him and my set of endless recommendations for him (I could do a 100 points post on that one). Of course I have a huge huge list of those things and I am really very tempted to put them down here. But for now I’ll stick to the good part, and here’s my 5 
Our honeymoon
While we were planning to move out of India just immediately after our wedding to a country that had never been visited by me, he could have just gotten away with the whole honeymoon bit. But he chose to take me…hold your breath….to switzerland..yay!. It was and is undoubtedly the most wonderful trip of my life, not only because he choose to take me there while we could have spent time in the country we were planning to stay put in for a few years but because switzerland is indeed heaven on earth. It is without doubt the most beautiful country on this planet. Carpets and carpets of greenery, the clear lakes, awesome weather..nature at its best. Splendid!
My best friend
I share everything with him, we speak n number of times a day, whether work related or personal or office gossip, I call him him during the working day to get it all out. I am just so used to him being this friend to me, whom I can share every single thing in my life with. Companions in the truest sense really.
Giving me the biggest surprise of my life
It was my birthday and a very usual day at work, we were out for some group training for a few days. It was very dull and boring and at that time with my previous organisation repetitive too. At that time he was living in the US (we were not married) and told me he will not be contactable for a few days since he and his friends were planning to go skiing and the phone networks do not work in that area. So besides the boring training I was so bored not to be able to speak with him during those 2-3 days. And, on the second day of the training, I get a message inside the hall that someone had come to see me. Now this really surprised me, who would want to come see me at an outdoor training venue without even bothering to call first on my cell. What could be so important, I thought of family, but they would always call first and then drop by. It sounded weird. And I kept thinking the message must be for someone else. And then, I walk out of the training and-see-him standing in that corridor, right-in-front-of-my-eyes. I could have passed out, I almost did. I thought I was dreaming and had gone crazy that I was seeing him or hallucinating or something. But he was there, on my birthday, giving me the biggest surprise of my life!
Calling me by my pet name or other such sweet names
Now I have one of the funniest and in a way a cute pet name. My family used to call me by that name until I became a teenager and realised that wasn’t the name I wanted anyone to use for me. And then my family just stopped using that name for me and simply outgrew the habit of using it. However, now that I am a bit more sensible , I love the fact that I have this cutesy pet name and like to be called with that name. And he uses it pretty often, something he does without cue and so lovingly, I find it very flattering and very sweet of him to do that
Made for each other
In many ways he and I are alike and very often quite the opposites too. However, deep down in my heart I do very often (err…sometimes not) feel that we are indeed made for each other. That we are soulmates and this union, our marriage, our togetherness was always meant to be. We were destined to be together. We are just inseparable. There’s something about him, that makes my heart skip many a beats! all the time!
In 4 years of pre marriage June 15, 2009
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and a little less than 4 years of post marriage, I still haven’t found a way to get past his macbook, his i phone and the occasional tv. They stand and stay between us. phew!
Dad’s baby May 27, 2009
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Little V is on a Daddy craze these days. It all started with my husband leaving the city for work one morning before Little V could wake up and see him. Little V spent that morning generally feeling sad. He didn’ t even enjoy his bath that day. Carried a very sullen face to his day time care. And it kept me wondering what was wrong with him. I never thought it was daddy that he was missing. When his dad came back in the night, Little V was absolutely thrilled to see daddy. And he wouldn’t let him go out of sight. He wanted to be carried by daddy all the time. And he just totally refused to come to me! It was overwhelming to see that love between them. Hubbie was overjoyed, with all the lavish love Little V was throwing at him. He was crawling and following him where ever he went and the moment he could manage to reach daddy, he wanted dad to pick him up. I could see my husband’s eyes go wet with all that affection. Its so lovely to see a baby shower such unconditional love on us. Little V is a very affectionate child. I have seen kids, but I know there’s something very special about Little V in the way he shows his love to us. Little V greets every visitor in our house, whether a relative or a friend with lavish smiles and never cries out when they hold him. Of course, he’s not friendly in an instant and not so good if he’s sleepy. But if he can see that the visitors are known to his parents and if the guest has a gentle voice and maintains a fair distance from him initially, this boy will simply be all smiles, ready to show off his skills and share his toys. I totally admire this aspect of Little V’s personality, sometimes I find it very inspiring too!
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I can’t appreciate enough the day time set up that Little V goes to. It’s a system which works very well and by far is my best option. For those who do not know, Little V is dropped off by me at a home of an old couple, (in their 60’s, old but still very active), and his maid goes along with him. I pack all the food for him for the day. And there’s another baby who comes also with her maid. So the 2 babies, 2 maids and these 2 gentle souls, they spend the day together(they do not keep more than 2 or max 3 kids). The place is a ‘home’ just like our own homes are. Its nice and warm and just very very homely! They play with him, talk to him, watch over him and keep an eye on the maids. They are also very open to follow my details regarding his food, food timings, sleep timings, play areas and generally my idea of checking on him. They ensure he sleeps some pre defined hours. He’ usually crawling over the house and they happily move furniture to create more space for him to explore. And I can attribute some of his out going nature to his stay at their place. They usually have relatives visiting them. The place is also very very clean. The lady is a very typical god fearing, vegetarian, cleanliness freak, your next door sweet aunty types. When I go pick him up in late afternoons, the curtains are drawn and the place smells like wet earth and it makes me so drowsy too. It gives me loads of peace of mind, to know he’s safe, happy, cared for and ‘at home’. And there’s someone to watch over the maid too. Besides, they are willing to follow all that I say. They say they do not do it for the money, their kids are settled out of India and its the company they enjoy! They do not charge me much and also never complain if he happens to spend an hour or half an hour extra. When I grow old, I want to do this too, its a great way to keep oneself occupied!
ok, so much, now *anti jinx* to the post.
being the (woe)man of the house April 10, 2009
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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!
happy birthday, hubbie March 4, 2009
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It was little V’s dad’s birthday last saturday. And we gave him a big surprise! I called up his friends, ordered cake and confetti and a big bunch of roses for him. Some of my friends think, men don’t like to get flowers, but I like to give them! Especially well made, only roses, handheld ones. Aren’t they so beautiful! Our friends crashed in at 12:00 midnight and we had a blast!! Hubbie was quite surprised and happy. We do have a thing of giving each other surprises, but with so many occasions round the year, anniversary, birthdays, valentine’s, we have been running out of ideas. This was a bit predictable but I think he would not have guessed the friends list. I was thrilled to see the smile on his face and happy to see him celebrate with his pals at that hour. Little V woke up too and didn’t cry one bit, with all the confetti pellets being fired and seeing his daddy getting birthday bumps!
Happy Birthday honey! May God shower his choicest blessings on you…you are my bestest gift ever and I can’t thank God enough for this day and for giving you to me!
Who fights like there’s no tomorrow February 4, 2009
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..me, me, me
Who does kiss and make up the next morning…hubby dear!
PS: the next day’s mornings are good, very good, but that doesn’t solve anything.
