Happy Mother's Day

There is no love in this world that can be compared to a mother's love. It is forever strong, never changing for all time and when her children need her most, a mother's love will shine.

When I was a teenager, I had a very big fight with my brother (he is elder to me by 2 yrs). For some reason, I really don't remember what it was about, we ended up wrestling each other. My mom had just come home from work and she was shocked to see us bleeding on the face and hands. She tore us apart and asked us to calm down. We started to argue with our mom as to who started the fight. She listened to us patiently and started scolding me. I got very angry and thought that was just not fair. I told her that I was younger and that he should not have prodded me. When she was still not convinced, I told her that she never loved me, and her son is the most important thing in this world for her. She was stunned at first and told me patiently that her 2 kids are her 2 eyes. I never believed it at that time, never thought how much it would have hurt her. I realized my mistake when I had my son in my arms for the first time. I might have 1 or 2 more kids in the future, but all my kids are the same to me. They are, like my mom told me, my 2 eyes. I can't live without them.

I love you mom.

The boy who never sleeps

What can a mom do when her hyper active 3 yr old refuses to sleep at night even when he is really sleepy?

There are different types of toddlers...some take a sound nap for 2 hours in the afternoon and still sleep for 10 hours at night (lucky moms!!!), some refuse to take a nap even for an hour in the afternoon but sleep early at night (well, moms are not that lucky, but they can have a break at night), some kids (like mine) refuse to take a nap in the afternoon and sleep at midnight after all the cajoling and threatening. They still have the energy to wake up early in the morning and wake their moms.

My son does take a nap in the afternoon only if I sleep with him. If he finds out that I am not sleeping with him, he wakes up too. There is no such thing as a sound nap for him. The same goes at night too. I try to put him early to bed (by early, I mean 10 PM) and come down for a bit of a couple time with my hubby when I hear a voice from the bedroom. I have tried all kinds of tricks with him, cajoled him, threatened him, shouted at him but nothing works. He sleeps only when he is 'satisfied' that there is nothing else left for him to do, and to top it all, he wakes me up in the morning saying "amma, get up, we got lots of work to do today".

I am really longing for an hour long bubble bath, watch some movies, just stretch my legs and read a book. When will my simple needs be met:-(

Movie Mania

I have never been a movie buff. I select movies because it stars familiar and likable characters.Since my amma has come here (oh, she is gonna go back in a couple of days, feel like crying), I take her to the public library at least once a week so she could pick up some tamil novels. I started browsing the library's video collection and picked up some movies. I just watched these 2 movies yesterday and they were undoubtedly the best movies that I have seen in the past year. Random Hearts is a romantic thriller starring Harrison Ford. I chose this movie not because of the lead character but because of its tagline..."In a perfect world...they never would have met". It was a wonderful movie about two people getting together after their spouses die in a plane crash. It turns out that their spouses were having an affair. I also thought the title as an apt description of the movie. Return to Me is a romantic movie. I selected this because of the X-Files guy, David Duchovny. The characters are so lovable and you just get involved with them so much that you feel empty after the movie ends. If you are a romantic like me, don't miss them..and don't forget to thank me for it;-)

and yeah...I forgot to mention, this is my first post for 2009. Taken me 3 months to scribble!!!!