My Sweetie Pies

My sweetie pie (DS) is just 5 yrs old and he is all excited to do his work himself. He wants to brush himself, make his breakfast himself , sometimes he doesn't even want us to feed him. Only time he gives us the exception is when I feed both him and his sister together. Now my DD is no less even if she is not even an yr old. She eats well when I feed them both but not if I feed her alone. hmm....... see the bond between siblings. 

DS doesn't like if we say anything seriously to DD even if its a joke and vice-versa. Did think that parenting two would be tough but never this way ......

If DS cries for anything , DD is there with him the next minute trying to console him.... Feels good to see them having this bond.... Will sure pray that they continue to care for each other all life through...God bless them ... Muuuuaaaahhhhhh sweeties..

Oh I forgot the important thing to mention, whenever we are in living room doing our work and DD wakes up from her nap, DS would be the first person to know and we would be left wondering on how did he know!!!! Every time he tells us that his sister woke up we directly go to pick her up without asking him any questions and all she might be doing would be cooing in her bed!!! Its always a wonder to us on how he heard such a low voice!!!

Now for the other way around, DD doesn't wake up from deep sleep if me or my DH talk but even if her dear brother utters even a simple Hi , she is up wide awake trying to play with him!! God, imagine our plight trying to make her go to bed again!!!!

Hmm...Its been a while

I totally forgot about my blog until I clicked on some link on Google site and it directed me to my blog statistics...It reminded me about my blog!!!!!! Old age sure got me good...

Well, where have I been in this past yr ??????Lost in parenting 2 very very naughty pies. Welcomed my 2nd cutie pie (daughter) in February 2012 and from then on its a roller coaster ride managing these 2 cuties.

Life has been on a fast track with no time for anything other than home, office, home again. Hopefully as they grow up will be able to find at least some time for myself or am I day dreaming???Well, have to see how it goes.

Hey, my first one has started kindergarten this year and its fun watching him run to school everyday. Other day he complained that his preschool was not good as they wouldn't allow him to write his name on his artwork or any papers. I asked him if he knew to write his name so nicely as he does now and he answered no and was smiling naughtily :) 

Hmm Jeevitham

ento hmm jeevitham anipisthundi !! eppudu edo oka tension leda baada anipisthundi . dont know if its because of my preggie hormones or is it really just me. naa manasulo maata cheppina tappe. cheppakapothe eduti valla korikalni naa pai ruddadam entha varaku sababu anipisthundi. meeku eppudaina ala anipinchinda ?

ee gola antha pakkana pedithe , maa ammai eppudu vasthunda ani wait cheyyadame saripothundi naaku. delivery tvaraga aipothe baagundu ani undi. alane ekkadi kaina paaripovali ani undi. last trimester effect emo idanta God knows. I need to put my thoughts properly. Will post soon with clear thoughts....

Egg !!!

మా చిన్నయ్య ఎప్పుడు eggs చూసిన నేను break చేస్తా అని సతాయిన్చేస్తాడు , నేనేమో వద్దు బాబు అని తీసేసుకుంట.

ఈ రోజు omlette వేద్దాం అని eggs తీస్తే వచ్చేసాడు నేను బ్రేఅక్ చేస్తా చేస్తా అని , సరే నేను చేసేది చూడు అప్పుడు చెయ్యి అని చెప్పా వాడికి ఒక ఎగ్ ఇచ్చి . వాడు నేను ఎలా చేసానో చూసాడు, ఒక పక్కన చెప్తూనే ఉన్నా , మెల్లిగా బాబు, మెల్లిగా కొట్టాలి అని. ఎగ్ కొట్టడం మెల్లిగానే కొట్టాడు కాని బౌల్ లో వేసేటప్పుడు కింద పడిపోయింది , ఇంక వాళ్ళ నాన్నకి చెప్ప్తునాడు నేను ఎగ్ సరిగ్గా కొట్టలేదు , మమ్మీ చెప్పింది కాని కొట్టలేదు అని . 

చిన్నపిల్లలు వాళ్ళకి నచ్చింది చేయిస్తే ఎంత ఆనందమో కదా వాళ్ళకి . 

లవ్ యు చిన్నమ్మ.

Tensions!!!

Hmm Feeling very low…. Have been trying to get a new job for quite sometime but nothing seems to work out. Everyone who came after me is able to move on but not me !!! Why… what am I doing wrong! Any suggestions??? Am lost over it!!! Don’t know what to do!!!

My cutie

మా చిన్నయ్య ప్రొద్దున్నే టిఫిన్ తినేసి , ఐస్ క్రీం కావాలి కావాలి అని అన్నాడు. ఇప్పుడు ఐస్ క్రీం ఎక్కడ నుండి వస్తుందిరా అని అడిగా, వాడు దానికి మనం Oakland జూ కి వెళ్ళాం కదా , అక్కడ అబ్బాయి అమ్ముతున్నాడు , అక్కడ తీసుకుందాం అన్నాడు. 

ఇప్పుడు వీడి ఐస్ క్రీం కోసం మేము ఆ జూ కి వెళ్ళాలన మాట , అదేమో మా ఇంటికి ఒక 50 మైళ్ళ దూరం !!!!!!

Ontari Thanam... ontari prayanam

ఒంటరితనం , ఒంటరి ప్రయాణం అనిపిస్తుంది జీవితం...

ఈ జీవితం లో ఎప్పుడైనా పోతుందా ఈ ఆలోచన అనిపిస్తుంది. లోకంలో ఇంత మందిమి ఉన్నాము ఐన ఒంటరితనమే. ఎందుకు ఇలా అనిపిస్తుంది , ఎక్కడికైనా పారిపోవాలనిపిస్తుంది , పావురం లాగ ఎగిరిపోవాలనిపిస్తుంది , ఎటువంటి బాదరబంది లేకుండా ఉండాలనిపిస్తుంది , కాని కుదరదు ఎందుకు ఇలా ?????

Wooow!! Happy New Year 2011

Happy new year everyone !!!!!!!!!


Can't believe that its more than 3 months since I last blogged !!! Time was surely running fast..... Lots of changes good and bad taking their own time in the last 3 months!!! Didn't even realize when the new year arrived..
Well, reason why I came back here was to blog the soup which I made yesterday and both my DS and DH loved!!! My DS sure made me happy saying that its yummy 
Coming back to my soup recipe. I never ventured into any other cuisine other than Indian, so getting a nod from both DS and DH was a booster for me. This is how I did it : Stir fried Garlic, Onion, Tomato with some green chilli and curry leaves (optional). Left it out to cool and in the mean time cut cabbage and carrot into thin strips (You can grate them too ). Started to stir fry carrot and cabbage and in the mean time grinded onion , tomato and garlic to smooth paste with little salt and pepper powder. Added this paste to cabbage and carrot stir fry along with some water, milk and red chilli flakes. Allow it to simmer and turn it off after it reaches the desired consistency. Add salt if required. I also added penne pasta to this and both of them savored it!!!!


If someone tries this, do let me know if you like it :)

Cutie Pie strikes again!!!!!

Ninna morning intlo scene :

nenu vaadiki snanam cheyisthunna, vaadiki soap raasthe chaalu arusthuntaadu....
N (my son) : Mommy, u r baddy baddy bad 
Nenu :  I am not going to take you to school if you call me baddy , baddy . 
N : Mommy, you are goody goody 

Today's scene :
Nidra lechina ventane

N: Mommy, I want to watch something on TV
Me: No TV early in the morning , You can play as much as you want but no TV
N : OK

During bath :

N was telling to his Dad : I dont want to go to school
Me : Ok, You can stay home but no TV all through the day. Do you want to stay?
N : I want to go to school!!!!  

P was totally ready to keep him home but after this he couldn't say anything!!!!

Chocolate!!!

I was feeling so low for the last 2 to 3 days.... not able to pull myself up and constantly have been thinking of returning to India. Don't know why but my mind is stuck in India right now!!!! One reason might be that I have my parents, siblings there and I miss them a lottttttttt. As a family , we used to have a say in all the decisions in our house, Parents used to let us know about any step that might have or may plan to take for us or what they are planning on to do. Am missing that a lot. Love to have that life again. Keep myself informed rather than learning it from outsiders  but looks like I am asking a lot for myself........hopefully it will change sometime !!! But really wonder when that would be....Do you feel the same anytime?


Coming back to the wish of going back to India, I really feel its my urge for freedom thats pulling me in that direction. Not that I am tied right now but I feel suffocated here. Last time in April when I went to India I felt that there's life in everything. I loved it there. I have a feeling that you can lead your life irrespective of who you are on your terms not bound by any restrictions!!!! I would really love to have that life sometime but wonder when that would be !!! May be after 20yrs when my kids can take their decisions and lead their own life.  But in that time I will loose all my near and dear ones !!!! 


Well, after all my thoughts you might wonder on how my header is related to the blog!! I went shopping today for some party supplies for my son's birthday and found a box of Artisan Rolled Wafers from Pirouline.I couldn't stop myself from the pleasure of enjoying them!!!!! I bought them and it sure did lift my spirits a little. Thank you Chocolate!!!

Sleeppppppppppppp

Its been more than 2 weeks since I blogged anything…..somehow didn’t turn to blogging…

Was lost in my world of work, home, cooking, and most of all sleeping!!!! You wouldn’t believe how many hrs I slept all through these 2 weeks thanks to long weekend and Ganesh Chaturthi…

Long weekend was a perfect rest weekend!!! One of my sweet friends visited us on Friday and we had a blast…Saturday was full relaxing!! Cooking was also to minimum!! Sunday had been to shopping (you know how shopping relates to women’s relaxation ) and Monday was another perfect relaxing day watching US open and sleeping ; One thing which was common on all these days was sleeping :)

Last Saturday was Ganesh Chaturthi and we started a bit late (Anyone would think that it would be early, but I was not ready to forego my sleep as I was awake very late in the night until 12 AM doing chatram for Ganesha’s idol)…… so I finally started cooking at around 8am and ended at only 12PM...started the pooja at around 12.45 and completed it by 1.45PM …All done and I was exhausted.. I drifted to dreamland while sitting on the couch watching TV!!! That’s the start of my sleep!! It continued in the night and again Sunday afternoon!!! Never felt so relaxed after a nap!!! That tells me that I should do it very frequently……

My Cutie Pie

Yesterday my husband was talking to my dad. My cutie pie went to him saying that he wants to talk to  తాతయ్య(Grandpa). Once he got the phone, the first thing that he said was “ I am 2yrs old. I have to go to school.” (He will be turning 3 in one month). I was totally surprised and asked him who told that. He said he himself said that.

After that, I had to send an email to offshore and was logging in; my husband asked me if I have any meetings. My cutie pie answered that he has meeting. When asked with whom he promptly replied  తాతయ్య. Wonder what special issues he had to discuss!!!! 

Varalaxmi Vratam

 Last Friday, Aug 20th was Varalaxmi Vratam. For the last 2 years, my MIL was here on this special day and it was fun doing pooja with everyone at home. Hmm I miss my parents though…

Anyways coming back to the topic, I was always interested in these special days from my childhood. It used to be fun with all members of family taking up one task and getting the house and deity ready for Pooja. Major help for my mom was my sis. My sis used to prepare everything for the pooja. After her marriage me and my brother helped my mom, but it was difficult because we never knew what has to go where and what needs to be done….Can you believe that I mixed kumkum as well for akshintalu ????? 

That was me then and now I made everthing myself all alone…cleaned up the house (Got some help from cleaners but after they are done, I had to clean the house twice or thrice for one reason or other , so according to me it was me who did the cleaning finally) got all the groceries, prepared all the naivedyam (సెనగలు,పులిహోర, గారెలు,బూరెలు, పరవన్నం,పానకం,వడపప్పు ) I wanted to do some more items but ran out of time so had to go for preparing the diety.

My MIL decorates the coconut with eyes, nose, ears and mouth. This time I wanted to do it and brought a big coconut as well but ran out of time as I had to get my kitchen back together after the pest control that was done. So I went with the simplest way of tying the varalaxmi roopu on the kalasam. So, I finally started doing the rangoli with rice flour, turmeric and kumkum. Once done I poured the rice and kept betel leaves and went to kitchen to get the Kalasam and by the time I came back my cutie pie son has done one more rangoli on the same one using kumkum , poured the rest of rice and was adjusting it on it!!!!

I was in a hurry to finish my stuff and shouted on him …I should have let it go and controlled myself.. I will always feel bad for shouting on him.. He just wanted to help me….Love you kanna…..

Coming back to pooja , so finally I set the deity, got all the prasadams ready and sat for the pooja. It was 2 O’ clock by the time I was done…. But it was satisfactory….I did it all and I did it well 

Questions!!!!!

Most of the times I am a confused soul when it comes to relationships and life!!! Multiple thoughts keep going through my mind as to why Life is so complicated or are we making it complicated??? Which one is correct…? Why do we misunderstand some people? Why do we try to overpower our relations parents, siblings, spouse or kids or anyone…. Why can’t all go hand in hand….

I do agree there are lots of differences in the way people are brought up or the environment in which they live, then why can’t people understand or empathize with others feelings when they are different. Why can’t they let go of their egos and be one family….

There a lots of questions which I have to ask myself…. Why I did that, why I didn’t do that….why do I have to do it etc., hopefully will find an answer someday but wish that day comes soon than later.

Why Rumblings.........

Rumblings…. Word which I used sarcastically many a times!!! Now am using the same to collect and put my thoughts together on a blog!

I have been thinking of starting a blog for long but never had the time to put it into action.

Finally I gave it a little push and the journey started……

Rumblings was the word which came to my mind as the name and the reason why goes here:

I wasn’t sure what to post on the blog whether its going to be cooking (as most of my friends do) or just my thoughts and if my thoughts what all can I post online was a big question….

So to answer all my questions and to put my thoughts into actions, I started my blog… deciding to jot down whatever I like….