They Grow Up So Fast!

Remember the car I said we bought the twins last weekend? (I mentioned it here.) Well, after completely ignoring it for a couple of days, they suddenly rediscovered the joys of driving, and since then they have explored the potentialities of the vehicle to the fullest extent. Tara attempted a wheelie (I know you can’t [...]

Playdate, Baby Shower, and Shopping – How the Twins are Keeping Me Busy

The girls’ social life is keeping me on my toes. Well, it’s not all their social life, I suppose. On Thursday, they went for a lunch playdate. I don’t know if it technically qualifies as a playdate, cos it was more like me catching up with a friend, and leaving my kids with her daughter, [...]

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It’s SO not my day today

It started with the plumber.
Have you noticed how most bad things start with the plumber?
And the plumber saga started a week ago, when I was in Pondicherry. One toilet started leaking like it thought it was a shower. The other was leaking like a sieve. So, when I got back, the first thing I did, [...]

Adoption Update: Friday the Thirteenth

Thank goodness we’re not superstitious. What kind of date is Friday the Thirteenth for the first hearing to formalize the adoption of our twins?
So, there’s going to be another trip to Pondicherry coming up soon. Too soon, if you ask me.
Does anyone know a good adoption lawyer? One based in Pondicherry, preferably, otherwise one based [...]

Adoption Update: Papers Resubmitted

Sunday night, I caught an overnight bus to Pondicherry. We still had not really managed to initiate the legalities of adoption – our previous attempt had been rendered null and void as we later discovered that there were certain errors in the petition that would have to be corrected. A month had passed and we [...]

Twinkle, twinkle

In all 35 (almost) years of my life, nobody ever told me I had a nice singing voice (except a guy who was flirting with me, which doesn’t count). I suppose this is primarily because I don’t have a nice singing voice. Which is a pity, because I love to sing. Once I even considered [...]

Tennis: Keep Your Eyes on the Ball, Girls

We took the twins for tennis on Sunday. Oh, we weren’t trying to get them to play (yet) – they were supposed to be audience or at best ball-girls, while Amit and I played. That was the plan.
It wasn’t the first time we had taken them to the courts – it was the second. The [...]

Child Labor? Works for Me

First you spend all your time doing things for your kids – serving them meals and tidying up after them; perpetually changing, washing and bathing them; and the amount of time you spend picking up the toys that they’ve deposited in every nook and cranny of the house (only to have them gleefully upturn the [...]

Adoption: How Slow Can it Go?

It’s been some weeks already since we went to Pondicherry to file the papers for adoption. Then we discovered that some “minor” (!) details needed to be corrected. Then, the lawyer informed us that for that to be done, one of us would have to travel to Pondicherry again. Then it transpired that first the [...]