One of our favorite places to go for a walk on a boring old day is to Rabba; a small convenience store chain. Its about 20-25 mins walk away. During summers, we take the long way but during winters, we take straight-forward way. You generally buy ice cream in summers, sit in the park and in winters, we admire the beautifully decorated Christmas House, as its lovingly called by people in Milton, sit by the park bench each donuts/cakes that we buy (at Rabba).
2022 began with teeth shattering cold. However, on Jan 16th and 17th, there was a blizzard and you both had snow days from school for those 2 days. What fun it was! There was playing in the snow, making igloo's and mommy's homemade hot cocoa. There is sooooo much snow. poor daddy did most of the cleaning.
Its been about 3 months since the vaccinations got approved for children over 5 years. While there was a mad-rush of a lot of parents trying to get slots, we kind of took a step back, wait for 3 months to see any drastic side effects in children post vaccination.
On Jan 21st, we got both of you vaccinated. Tanush cried a little.
Tanush, by the time you are old enough to actually start reading this, its likely that you will start getting upset why there aren't as many entries under your name. Obviously you are not any less loved...just that, the amount of time/effort it takes to raise 2 children vs one increases and we do tend to drop the ball, which is what happened in this case too.
You are a hugger. a BIG one. you love giving and receiving hugs. its always, "huggy tha tha" :)
I think Megha, its imperative you that there are a lot of unsaid things in this journey that I am documenting. There are days where there are a lot of tears, especially when daddy yells (usually about Math, not cleaning you room). You would cry, say things like Tanush gets away easy :)
You have no idea the number of times daddy and I fought because one of us would get you upset and then one of us would get upset with each other :)
Rest assured, we are also learning as we go along, we are also growing up as parents. Unfortunately, you being the first born, you end up getting the short end of it, sometimes. I hope you remember everything else we do to show you how much we love you, though, nothing could possibly be shown in action.
What a year it was, so many up's, a few low's.
Christmas 2021, though in gifts, was great, the mood (for mommy and daddy) was below par. Lot of reasons, maybe one day when you guys grow up we will talk.
Meanwhile, here is a picture of you two in front of tree, ready to dig in to the gifts.
Oct 14th 2021:
Megha, I cannot repeat this enough, your voice is so beautiful. We started your Carnatic music lessons back in May 2021 and since then, every Wednesday, you have lessons in the evening. Below is a picture of the Official Initiation Day. Generally, this is done in a much elaborate way, but, give we are in the midst of Covid-19 pandemic, we have to make do with a virtual one.
When you both grow up, Megha and Tanush, I hope that Covid-19 ends up being a distant memory. AS of now, we are in the midst of it and let me just say, its not going well. Somethings yes, many things no.
