says my blog!!

I upgraded to the latest version of wordpress, as I have been eyeing on some plugins that work only with the latest version. The template I had does not work with the new version. Also, all the customizations[err.. experimentations] are throwing fatal errors left, right and center.

Not that you can’t do without my blog for few days, but I thought I should write and use this opportunity to add ONE more post to my belt. Ha!

PS: To all who inquired about D’s health, she is perfectly fine now. Passed on the bug to my blog and happily went to school. Poor joke, huh! But, I’ll take this any day..

Edited to add:
Spent few minutes, could not fix the old template. Bear with this template till I get a breather and a mood to dirty my hands and dive into the code to fix the old template.

And, that advertisement is NOT mine!! Came with the template.

Hello! and thanks to everyone who has been wondering where I got lost, yet again I am very much here, alive and doing well. Enjoying overdose of sleeping and taking 2008 with a deliberate slow start. Trying to live a slightly more organized [I hear the LH laughing his heart out at the mention of that word..] lifestyle, leading to more time spending on the family front.

Nevertheless, I admit my addiction to blogging, reading more than writing[You see, I am working on the patience quo.. the number one ingredient for writing.. ]. This addiction doesn’t suit my age, but hey thats a perception game. For some, blogs have become the virtual equivalent of chai time talks Tea time talks loaded with intellect on day to day parenting in turn making me wiser[!*?@?] and more aware by the day. What more to ask? So, here I am! Back!

On a different note, this blog is now read by my family members, something I should have done long long back. Just that they never asked for the url and I never gave. It never once hit. This also means that I will update the blog more often, lest my mom calling me at 5:00 in the morning to check if everything was alright as I did not update the blog

Am itching to hop on to your blogs and catch up. Just writing this puts a smiley on my face.

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! For the record !

Just for the records, I wanted to write the long due post with a link to the Telegraph article where this blog got a mention. Took another look at the email I got from the author, Tessy Koshy, just to make sure I got her name right. I must admit when I got her email I thought it was a prank. I googled on her name to make sure she was indeed working for The Telegraph. Anyways, she had written in the email that she hit upon my blog while surfing on the net for mommy blogs, and thought it was interesting.
Out of curiosity on how she hit upon my blog, when there are so many others that deserve a mention, I googled on indian.. mommy.. blogger.. daycare.... to name a few, to see if mine showed up on the first 2 pages. Damn! Not even on the third. I wasn’t going to let it go. So, searched on the keyword ddmom, hoping to see my blog as the first entry in the result set. Sure, it was and it did momentarily satisfy my alter ego!
Wait, what is this 5th link? ddmom’s dating an alcoholic? How? When did that happen? Sorry ddmom, whoever you are, this is just to set my record straight, no offense to you!
Only to click few more links and end up transforming into a dog!

Get back to work, lady!

What are these idiots doing in desi mom’s blog? Just visited Swati’s blog and looks like it has been hacked. Someone please tell me I am wrong!!
Edited: As per ~nm, she has a new blog now – http://myamusingmind.blogspot.com/ Thanks nm for sharing the info[Your comment went into spam as it had a link ] Still don’t understand why her old blog has those ads if it wasn’t hacked.

How does it feel to stay at home/work from home? Thats the big question.

I dont have any regrets and feel thats the best decision I made. Though I must admit there have been times when I have felt very lonely as I like to be with people. Mainly because days pass by and I dont see anybody other than me, H and D1.

Few months after I quit my “office” job, I joined H to help out in his venture. When D1 was about 20 months old, decided to put her in day care. For 2 reasons, I would be mentally drained out by end of the day and part of the frustration started showing in my behaviour. Secondly, she was growing and she seemed to be a very social person, she would be very happy when she is in a crowd.
It was not easy taking the decision to put her in day care, I would think I failed in being a home-mom and the whole idea of quitting my job was to be with her. Ended up sending her for 4 – 5 hours a days. This is when I started helping H out with his ventures. Life seemed to be much better as I was still spending quality time with D1 and also getting my space.

Work-wise, I spend less time, but more productive and much more challenging stuff.
The other day a friend of mine commented – ‘I dont know how you live your life like this. I would go nuts if I dont have a schedule planned ahead of time’ . I dont know, I like this life style. It is tough and needs a lot of discipline. Because I need not get up at 7:30 and get ready for work. There are times, when I work till 2 Or 3 in the night, sleep for few hours, drop D1 in day care in the morning, sleep again for couple of hours. Most of the time, there is not much of a difference. I still wake up around 7:30, spend some time with D1, get her ready, drop her at day care. Come back home and start my work. Work until 3 in the afternoon, pick up D1 from day care. Feed her snack and then usually go to park OR hang out in library for couple of hours. Come back home, cook, talk to friends etc., Pretty much what I did when I went to work.
Difference is I dont see many people and again days pass by when I pretty much seeing H and D1.

Overall, after doing this for about 2 years now, I think its a very personal decision. It might work for some and might not. Personally, even though I have times when I am not sure, mostly I am very happy with the decision I took.

I have been working since I got out of college. Pretty much without a break. The 2 / 3 weeks vacation I accrued at work, I would spend on India trip to visit family.
Work.. work.. Babies..

I quit my job when D1 was about 10 months. Actually 2 weeks before my mom went back. This is something I had planned for a very long time. Colleagues and friends thought I was either hush hush about the “new” job I have got in hand OR I have lost it all together to quit such a high paying job.
The day I told my manager about quitting, he was very supportive. He has 3 kids and values them ahead of everything else in his life. His statement was – Knowing you, you have probably made up your mind and I am sure there is nothing I can do about it. If there is anything I can do to retain you, just give me a hint.
It was funny when my director held a toast saying – You were my most favorite employee of all. And there were couple of colleagues screaming – Hello, she is the one leaving you, and we are the ones loyally staying back

It’s almost 2 years since I quit my office job. I say “office” job as now I help H with his ventures whenever I can. I can call myself a working from home mom, though in reality I am more of a taking-care-of-my-kid mom. That’s my first priority. Being a helping hand to H always takes second priority. It has worked out so far, since we have split our primary responsiblities and that gives H more time to concentrate on what he does best. I can’t complain, inspite of his super busy schedule, he manages to help me out more than I can ask for.

The big question still remains?
How does it feel to be working from home mom/ stay at home mom?

Hello world!
Have been wanting to blog for a long time now. Recall H(hubby) getting excited one fine day some 5 years back – blogging phenomenon is amazing. This will change the world. Ignored it the way I ignore so many other statements of his . Now he says twittering is going to change the world and I am starting to blog. So much to be a geeks wife