Happy New Year : Part 1

Happy New Year : Part 1

Happy New Year to my darling S. Last year was a mixture of ups and downs- struggling with managing a full time job and bringing up S, managing two houses, a terrible first trimester, difficult maids, S breaking into school ( 10 days of heartbreak for me to hear her cry) as well as tons of joy everyday- S first nursery rhyme, first full sentence (“Thank you God for the tiffin”), first tantrum, first fall from the swing and monkey bars at the park, first sports day, first swim at the pool…. and so many other firsts I could go on. Its been a great 2009 and the only resolution I make for 2010 is to spend more time with S and to be a more patient mother. First should be more easily achieved with my 6 months maternity leave coming up in a couple of weeks, second promises to be a stretch with the second baby to arrive soon!
2010 is going to be a struggle, I was quite a paranoid mother when S was born and fussing over anything and while I have resolved not to be as fussy this time round, old habits die hard and am sure while I may not have the time and energy to be as particular as I was last time, it will still be a very big struggle managing two kids, especially with S entering her “Trying Twos”. Lot of people ask me whether S knows she is going to get a brother/sister soon, and I say that she really does not understand the concept. The hubby and I have told her many times that there is another babbu coming, and she will need to play with the babbu and be loving to the babbu, and she does stroke my tummy and say Hi to the babbu once in a while, but my sense is that she really does not understand the entire concept and how the baby is going to be very small, and will take up some of mummy and daddy’s time etc. Keeping fingers crossed that S takes it all in stride.

The last few weeks have been quite hectic. Almost like we are trying to fit in all the socializing and outings before the second baby comes and life changes quite dramatically again. Christmas was a long four day weekend since there was another holiday on the Monday after.

Christmas day (Friday) we spent the evening at a college friends place. She has a one year old son and S was quite friendly with him- she pushed him on his swing a couple of times and even tried speaking to him. Then after some time she became more interested in his toys and spent most of the evening going through all of them. There are some really cute pictures of the two kids together. This is my college friend whom I have known for close to 14 years and it was really nice to see our kids playing together! Similar feeling to the other day I had gone to another close friend’s place whose son is 4 years old and he played with S for about an hour.

The next day we went for the night show of 3 Idiots. The first half of the movie is brilliant and had us in splits. The second half drags unnecessarily and some of the incidents are too unbelievable, But overall we enjoyed the movie, and so did S who was awake for part of the movie and enjoyed the song “All is Well” and still repeats it from time to time. Anyway the movie finished only at 1:30 in the night and it was well past two before we slept. S and I slept till 10 the next morning (she woke up again in the last ½ hour and was so excited by the whole experience that she refused to sleep even after we got home and was jumping in the bed well past 2). The hubby had a shoot in Pune the next day so he was up and away pretty early. Luckily S slept till 10 otherwise Sunday would have been really difficult to manage without the hubby.

Sunday night we hosted a party at home for my friend who was down from the States. She is also expecting and must have been quite shocked to see S in one of her vomiting states (we fed her dinner a bit early since guests were coming and I think she was too full!). Anyway S had her dinner again and settled down after that and sat on one of the sofas watching Nemo on her Daddy’s laptop and venturing out once in a while to take some chips from one of my friends. Dinner itself wound up pretty early since everyone was tired from their hectic traveling schedule- only one of my friends landed up at 11 pm after everyone at left and S was still awake so they both played together for some time. Finally slept at some 12 midnight

Monday was relatively less eventful. Had some office work in the morning, spent the day lazing around, and in the night went to Mainland China for dinner. Its one of my favourite restaurants in Bangalore, and once I heard that they had opened a branch near my place was waiting to try it out. But food was disappointing- very oily and I had a slight stomach upset after that.
Will update on New Year weekend in next post.