Combi post ..
I am severely late in my gratitude post this month....roll-eye emoji insert and a so-what's new gif with that shake of head. But but, hear read me out folks, at least am trying. Not sure if I will add it to September or be the early bird for October. On va voir! Lately have been posting less and it's been so that all posts have been theme posts so am making this one a combi! Combi is a word we use at home for the kids when they brush and take a bath immediately after. This saves some time on school days when we are rushed. Thinking to myself that I must stop explaining the title of the post, seriously, is anyone even interested.
This is a birthday month, well actually am so lukha that posting on my birthday...have no plans for the evening. The day was just whirled past. Is it the retrogade, a lot of redoing and undoing happening with tasks I had completed, stuff at work , bank cards going missing, and stuff never seeming to get finalised, a tenant leaving within 3 months.... It is seriously frustrating on some days ...Not to mention that the learning curve esp workwise is steep - actually an ellipse so sometimes I find myself not very far from where I started out. If I look at myself in the last year, I'm so much in a different space from then and yet I find myself at times with self-doubts and anxiety that I should dismiss them as 'frenemies'.
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Continued....some good 10 days later...So, here is the thing, am bad with time management...too much on my plate. You remember going to someone's home for a meal and how the hostess just heaps your plate full inspite of your pleading protests....Sometimes I feel if I have taken on more than I can do, and the other times I feel I am just one of those slow-pokes who don't manage time efficiently, and don't delegate. Delegation or shared responsibility are great 'mot du jours' only who can I delegate such stuff like taking up kids' homework, being around for them, home made meals....etc etc. So back to square one, with hardly any time to paint my toe-nails. I have come to a conclusion - there are some conflicts I can't resolve, so my one day at a time motto work best for me.
There was a lot of to and for about a lost jacket at the Sunday school when a kid's jacket went missing. The mother requested all parents to check with their kids etc and in the end, it came out that one of my kids was the one who had hid it - in the girls toilet. This shocked me and I was distraught...upon cross-examining it turned out that the other kid had played a similar prank on mine at a sleepover and she was exacting a tit for tat revenge. We spoke to her in terms of thinking through her action - did she not think that she would be found out, did it help in the first place this revenge prank as the parents of the kid did know the jacket was hidden then found, how acts like these impact how other people (third parties) perceive us and label us, how it was the mother of the kid who would have had more anxiety regarding the lost jacket....the situation was resolved and she was brave enough to even talk to the parent in question....But was tough because even though we tend to be more forgiving to kids, the same is not for adults and the conversations amongst the parents in the group aimed at upbringing!!
It's Navratri time and this time doing a combi (what!again!) celebration. These are nostalgic times of how we celebrated in our family growing up and I wish to create memories around this for my kids too. I must go on a doll collection spree henceforth. Leaving you all with a picture.
This is a birthday month, well actually am so lukha that posting on my birthday...have no plans for the evening. The day was just whirled past. Is it the retrogade, a lot of redoing and undoing happening with tasks I had completed, stuff at work , bank cards going missing, and stuff never seeming to get finalised, a tenant leaving within 3 months.... It is seriously frustrating on some days ...Not to mention that the learning curve esp workwise is steep - actually an ellipse so sometimes I find myself not very far from where I started out. If I look at myself in the last year, I'm so much in a different space from then and yet I find myself at times with self-doubts and anxiety that I should dismiss them as 'frenemies'.
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Continued....some good 10 days later...So, here is the thing, am bad with time management...too much on my plate. You remember going to someone's home for a meal and how the hostess just heaps your plate full inspite of your pleading protests....Sometimes I feel if I have taken on more than I can do, and the other times I feel I am just one of those slow-pokes who don't manage time efficiently, and don't delegate. Delegation or shared responsibility are great 'mot du jours' only who can I delegate such stuff like taking up kids' homework, being around for them, home made meals....etc etc. So back to square one, with hardly any time to paint my toe-nails. I have come to a conclusion - there are some conflicts I can't resolve, so my one day at a time motto work best for me.
There was a lot of to and for about a lost jacket at the Sunday school when a kid's jacket went missing. The mother requested all parents to check with their kids etc and in the end, it came out that one of my kids was the one who had hid it - in the girls toilet. This shocked me and I was distraught...upon cross-examining it turned out that the other kid had played a similar prank on mine at a sleepover and she was exacting a tit for tat revenge. We spoke to her in terms of thinking through her action - did she not think that she would be found out, did it help in the first place this revenge prank as the parents of the kid did know the jacket was hidden then found, how acts like these impact how other people (third parties) perceive us and label us, how it was the mother of the kid who would have had more anxiety regarding the lost jacket....the situation was resolved and she was brave enough to even talk to the parent in question....But was tough because even though we tend to be more forgiving to kids, the same is not for adults and the conversations amongst the parents in the group aimed at upbringing!!
It's Navratri time and this time doing a combi (what!again!) celebration. These are nostalgic times of how we celebrated in our family growing up and I wish to create memories around this for my kids too. I must go on a doll collection spree henceforth. Leaving you all with a picture.
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