Yours, Mine and Ours

Stay hungry. Stay foolish.

2011-10-06T22:10:00.000-07:00

No icon's passing affected me so much. May be it is living in the valley where these giants stroll like everyone else -- it almost makes it feel like a personal loss. Dressed in jeans and a black turtleneck most of the time. With just the right amount of arrogance and authority to snub bullshitters. A very humble past. Syrian biological dad. Catholic biological mom. Given up for adoption. Grew up

Too many babies!

2011-04-06T12:50:00.000-07:00

Too many babies in the house. And I'm not even talking about the Scout and the Minor*. I'm talking about me! I want to throw a tantrum right now about the lack of sleep, about not being able to give my 200% at work, about doing a half-a$$ed job at housekeeping, about not being able to eat when I want to and sleep when I want to, about not being able to exercise and a million other mundane things

Excuse me, kya re?

2010-11-02T10:02:00.000-07:00

Mein do bachhon ki maa re!Yes, baby Vic is here. Born: 20102010 (ddmmyyyy)The nurses were more excited about the date than us. They literally pushed me to *push* before the start of the next day.Scout's reaction: "Hi baby! How are you?"Vic's status: Eat. Sleep. Poop. Pee.My status: What more could a second-time mom ask for? May be a killer figure. Ha?

10 point update

2010-09-29T21:29:00.000-07:00

Thanks to everyone who pinged about my whereabouts to make me get off my butt and post.About 4 weeks to go to the D-day. Things are fine! Nothing much to write home about except work has ^peaked^ since I'm taking off soon.Baby names are being short-listed. That's the minimum amount of prep we need to do before he arrives I guess. Should tell you much about the general lack of preparation here.We

How not to compliment a pregger...

2010-08-28T19:46:00.000-07:00

Wow! You are big!Wow! You look ready to pop!You have some face weight, but don't worry, it will go away after the delivery!You are having two boys!? Have fun! Lucky you! Your husband does so much around the house.

Fill in the blank.

2010-08-05T14:38:00.000-07:00

By the 3rd week of Oct, the "About me" section on the blog will read:"Wife to GIJoe. Mom to Scout and _____. These are our stories."And it ain't going to be a Girl Scout I'm afraid.

Attix .. fall down.

2010-07-23T16:23:00.000-07:00

This is how the Scout reads Asterix. He points to Asterix and says "thiss Attix" and then he points to an unfortunate Roman legionary, that can be found in almost any page fallen down with a bump on his head, and says "uncle fall down", opens the next page and the same thing repeats "Attix".. "uncle fall down".. "Attix".. "uncle fall down" till he flips through the pages and closes the

Against gender stereotypes

2010-07-12T22:23:00.000-07:00

Starry tagged me on this one. I hope I'm not repeating stuff that has already been said in the blogosphere considering that this tag has spread like wild fire, while I have been sitting around fanning myself. Anyway here are some stereotypes (none of which are ground-breaking) that I don't conform to:"Good wives wake up earlier than their husbands, wash hair and do Tulasi pooja before starting

Vacations, aunts, cities and such..

2010-07-12T22:17:00.000-07:00

Went away for a week to the other side of the country. Got pampered endlessly by the aunts around there. Aunts are the best! No two ways about that. However I'm peeved that the Scout was like at priority-0 for them while I was at priority-1 or something like that and I cribbed to them about how intelligent women like them must not let themselves be charmed this way by a two-bit little thing. They

Dear bloggers, I turn to you for therapy.

2010-06-22T16:08:00.000-07:00

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