Some this and thats

An old draft, but publishing it anyway.

Today, after ages had gone out for a walk and a drink with a friend. We met up around 9 pm, post dinner. It was still light and we walked and talked and I huffed a little too. Walking is fun if you have some company, don't you think? Oh, the drink, such boring teetotallers we are - it was mint tea, sans sugar.

Lil G had a class outing to a zoo. I'd been telling her since a while not to go too close to the enclosures, not to feed anything to the animals, and to stay with the group. Got up at 4:15 in the morning, waiting for the alarm to ring, wondering if I should've volunteered to go along. I also was feeling guilty of scolding her the previous evening. Do you think I'm paranoid? She was fine apparently, had a small fall. The husband had gone to pick her up and had a small panic attack when he did not see her. Almost all the kids had come out of the bus, lil G and one of her friends were the slow ones.  Back home, madam threw a minor tantrum (well, she was tired) and when I asked her which animals she's seen, defiantly told me that none - they were all ill!! Today, she volunteered that she had seen a zebra.

Big G ate some broccoli and loved it. For a child who does not eat greens, this deserves a mention. Also her first tooth is loose and there is much excitement. I'd better be prepared as the tooth fairy. Since all her friends have already lost at least one tooth she was feeling a bit left out, but was very excited about telling this to her friends. A bit that always makes me laugh.  Ask her how her tooth is and she says, oh! it is looser today.

As usual, we've been a bit short-changed for spring. There was not much warm weather, more wind and cold. Off late, we've seen some 15 to 17 degrees and we are happy with that. I read two books recently - The Life of Pi, by Yann Martel and it's awesome. I think I need to buy it for myself. For a re-read. And the other was The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin. This book was very interesting especially because it was written in the 1970's and it is a satire about the society's expectations of the perfect woman, who is perfectly groomed and maintains a clean house. Male chauvinism and the men's club gang up against independent women, who know their mind, who are successful professionals in their own right  and erode their defences and confidence to becoming a Stepford wife - essentially someone who will obey her man blindly. This sort of attitude is prevalent even today, world over. Even in families where the wife is working out of home, the majority of times she is doing far more share of housework and child care compared to her partner. 

Edited to add: The tooth has come out, new one is quickly coming out too. The existence of tooth-fairy was widely debated between the two sisters. The little one said wisely for her years, "There is no tooth-fairy, Mama will be one." The big sister remained firm in her belief. The tooth-fairy put the alarm a whole one hour early for the weekend, kicked herself for not keeping any candy/chocolates and then ta-da, remembered an old Easter-eggs stash. Put them under the pillow with a coin. Big G was happy with her riches, but then when the little one wanted some chocolate and I dug into the same stash, the truth was revealed. There was some outrage and then really, I don't know what the status-quo is now. I should learn how to play along, duh!