Diary of a Whacky Girl

Dearest Athiboy,  I think I have finally started feeling that time is flying, because you seem to be growing quite fast, becoming all the more cute and irresistible every passing day. Yayyyy! This month is a Double Dhamkka, as you've achieved two milestones. Firstly, you have FOUND YOUR VOICE. You have realised that you've a voice and keep showing that to us by constantly shrieking with excitement. Generally, 3pm-4pm is your shriek hour. You're at your best at this time, constantly shrieking with joy, kicking your legs and laughing. Secondly, after what felt like ages for us, but actually has been only 5 months, you ROLLED OVER. You've been desperately trying to roll over by turning to your sides for the last 1 week and finally, 3 days ago, you pulled it off. And guess what, the first time you did it, nobody saw you. I had fed you and put you in the bed to play, and had gone over to do something outside signalling V to keep an eye on you. He was busy with a work call an...

If there's one thing that me and V have been consistently doing in our life after marriage, it has to be the gardening.  Our terrace garden journey started out one fine weekend, when we randomly did a Google search to find out a nursery nearby. Luckily for us, we found that there was this placed called Indra Terrace Garden near our home. It was pleasant surprise to see such a place in Chennai. It was a home with a small office space in the ground floor, the house in the first floor and the garden in the terrace. And man, what a garden! It had everything from spinaches to chillies, drumstick to bitter guords, tomatoes, mint, marigolds, every inch of the terrace filled with so many bags, pots & shelves of plants. All this grown without any fertilizers or pesticides. We instantly knew we had hit the jackpot, coming to the right place.  The owner was also kind enough to give us various ideas and details on how and where to start and also an insight on how h...