Thank God it's Monday

I had written this post and managed to delete it too!! No idea, how (worse than face plam)! Ha ha, good way to laugh at myself. Tried to recover the original post using this link but it did not work for me, maybe because it's a new post, no cache available.

I will try and reproduce it by memory and hopefully it resembles the original, even a wee bit.

Have been waiting for Monday. I know, for a doting, loving mom picture that I (manage to) portray (or not) this can seem like an antithesis of sorts. In another life when I was working, work was a long commute away.  Weekdays my life was Metro, Boulot, Dodo (stock phrase for Commute, work, sleep) and yes, cooking and housekeeping fell in my lot too.  I would wait impatiently for the weekdays so that I could unpause the rest of my life and activities over the weekends. Sometimes, weekends would be only catching up on sleep. And those were days when we did not have kids. There are mothers who do work, commute, housekeeping routine with kids and I salute you big time. And so many of you also find the time to blog/craft/tweet/run marathons/social work/hobby!!! Awed, floored!

So the Easter break is over and am relieved. Holidays are very unstructured times in my house. Anything goes. We went on a short break to Burgundy in France (not in original). Yes, I will put up post with pics about it soon. Otherwise we were happy to be back home, you see it's just so much more comfortable. And the kids are very reluctant sight-seers, rather they create them at times. So, we caught up on sleep more than anything else. Kids, especially Big G took advantage of my good nature and watched a lot of TV. When I would insist she does some reading, she would count the number of lines in the story and decide on which one to read!! Lil G too insists on having sessions with me and can now distinguish A and B. (not in original). Off late, stomach pain with the accompanying expressions are used to wriggle out of doing anything she does not want to do - finish her food, drink up milk, not to go to school. But surprisingly the pain vanishes with Ruccola cough drops!!! She wants 2 pig-tails for her hair and calls herself PiPPi.  We also did some origami, after seeing some links here @ Anisnest. Still to catch Big G's fancy but I am hooked.

And you know what it is with the school routine, for me it's the packed lunches. Actually, cooking for my family is a bit stressful. Agreed I am a dyslexic cook and need to start updating the Contented Maharajah space asap!  I am always struggling to learn food that all the 3 like (leaving me) and so far have zeroed on pizza and maggi and breakfast cereals and my khichdi. Today had already made 3 varied packed lunches for the hubby and kids, dosae and aloo palya for breakfast and big questionmarks for lunch and dinner. Try to introduce something healthy and different like lemongrass tofu but no takers. Also, with the kids it's not just cooking food, but patiently and not so much at times, feeding it morsel by morsel to them. Thinking of a line in Angoor - Khati tum ho, tan mere lagta hai. As if!

Need an app where you key in all the ingredients on hand and voila! it comes with recipe suggestions. Life would be a tad easier. Foodie developers or vice versa, please take note!


So kids and hubby are packed off to their temporary day stations, have returned with a bagful of grocery shopping and beginnings of a headache. Dolo and a cup of tea still to take effect. A visibly dirty house, cooking and small suddenly appearing chores need to be done, all in the 3 hours before pick-up time. Waved goodbye to any time for French homework, postponed! Gah, did I say Thank God it's Monday, take that back, totally!


PS: I ought to subscribe to my own blog so I can take care of 'careless finge' contingencies like today's. Thanks for your patience!!