The week that was.......2

Hello all, off late, it's been a bit difficult to stay away from my blog - been doing a lot of tweaking with colours and layouts but still not figured out how to have rotating header images. Would appreciate any help on that! Wednesday and Thursday, was down with the flu and also had the exam. Both are pretty much over and done with. The husband was kind enough to drop me to the school and I was the only one person wearing a full sleeved polo neck, sweater and a jacket plus a cap in class while everyone else was dressed for nice spring weather!Oral's are next week and my partner is this Colombian guy. I really can't understand his French in class, maybe that's why nobody volunteered to pair up with him. I guess he will say the same for my accent too!! It's going to be interesting.

Sorry about the cheeky headline. Really not my craft, thinking up a headline. Though I try, do read On content and contending and Blog me too. But now instead of edits and tweaks I just go ahead with what I want to say! And it helps that I have some followers and some others who drop in now and then. I must admit I am curious about the visitors from Kenya, Russia and Illinois!!

Wednesday morning woke up feeling under the weather.  Then got wet in the rain when I went to pick up the kids from school. They were protected thankfully with their rain jackets but the getting wet made it worse for me. The new stove also arrived and I had to do a lot of embarrassing cleaning up of 5 years when they removed the old one. Well, at least now, I know that I can move the stove to clean - it's not screwed into place as I'd thought and I'm going to be a bit of a maniac now.

A niggling suspicion was confirmed - the household ceases to function when I am ill. The kids had to miss school on Thursday as I had no strength to make morning tea, and dabbas and dress them and drop them to school. Even if I had managed this, the husband was tied up with meetings to fetch them back on time. So, they stayed home watching TV while I drifted in and out of sleep. I managed to make some lunch and feed them, no idea how.

The one thing I hate about being ill or away from home is that my kids will be neglected or not cared for very well. And that is something non-negotiable. In the mind's eye, the hubby will sit with his laptop and periodically shout some instructions, whilst these 2 will sit together on a sofa watching Nick Junior and singing along, or playing or fighting, most of the times. Dinner will be either some frozen stuff - baked in the oven or something I have cooked. Baths will be skipped for when mama is back/well. The kitchen, bedroom, actually the whole house a mess, because you see, just seeing to them takes up all the time. Yeah right!!

The husband I must admit gave the kids a bath and fed them as instructed. What gets to me at times is this is usually a one-off situation, and never a case of the parents parenting together. I am a single parent most of the times. Loved it when the husband said as much that me falling ill throws a spanner in the works........I love it when people accept their limitations and credit others for their silent (only sometimes not) contribution. I am so tempted to draw a shopping list but material stuff is not what I am looking for, it's something more ambiguous, candid recognition of my current circumstances and acknowledgement of all that I do. Sometimes, I feel even this requirement is unwarranted, I mean would I not do this for my kids if I was a single parent with no partner to rely on. But within a marriage \this kind of feedback or dialogue is important I think.

And the weekend - tomorrow we are to go a friend's place for dinner, experimenting with home-made pizza's. I am taking along a batter for channa dal wadas. Maybe some moong dal halwa - only as a dress rehearsal for Sunday. We have invited our neighbours for tea - and on the menu is pakodas and halwa (only if it come's out ok, this one). Additionally I will get to practice my French as the lady speaks only French. Will it be terribly improper if I keep the dictionary handy or the laptop open to google translator? Will tell you all how it goes. Have a nice weekend, you all!!