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Grandparents and their unconditional love

 It all starts in the month of March every year when my parents start the countdown for a month-long staycation. They start with getting the house cleaned, and linen organized & by the time we are near April 20 their excitement holds no boundaries. Alcohol, snacks, chocolates, you name it & it’s ready for us at home. They do this every single year with the same enthusiasm & I often wonder how.   As I observe them, trying to understand how can they be so calm & at peace with all of us creating a ruckus at home, I am left speechless at their love for us. Every year in the month of May, we 4 sisters come home to spend time with our parents along with our kids & our parents look forward to these 30 days of quality time with their kids + grandkids. It’s 7:00 pm & there is total chaos in the living room….with 12 people in the house out of which 6 kids ranging from a 25-year-old to a nine-year-old, 4 sisters & mom & dad….obviously, there will ...

Forty is the New Twenty

  Forty is the new naughty. I have been reading this for a while now and always wondered what it meant. As a 20-something year old, I understood that in a different way, as I moved on to my 30’s saw a completely different meaning to it and now that I am headed towards the big 40 I finally know what it means. Of course I think that I look young, but my body does remind me occasionally of where I am in life.   A lot changed in this pandemic for everyone across the globe, but there is a new shift that I see in me. I did the same things that all of us did – cooking, cleaning, washing, taking care of our loved ones and I continue to do so, but there is something different. I didn’t notice the changes in me until I started noticing the way people started reacting to me. I kept wondering what happened? Why are these people suddenly calling me selfish and not liking what I am saying. I started to analyze the situation and realized that they love me but they don’t like the way I am...