Diary of a Whacky Girl

There have been quite a few things or behaviours in Athiboy which reminds me so much or my own childhood and brings joy to the day. I'm trying to document them here so that I can always be reminded that the joy of life lies in the most simplest of things. Things which cannot be bought, but only experienced as a part of the life.  1. Sleeping the moment breeze hits your face during travel - This is something I have been quite famous for when I was kid. I literally doze off the moment I board a bus to Chennai / Bangalore. As soon as the breeze hits me, I'm out into my own dream world. One other reason was I had motion sickness, so if I don't sleep, I'm going to vomit - so people preferred to let me sleep.     With Athi, there is no motion sickness, but almost all auto rides have put the kiddo into sleep within 15 mins. I love how observing how he slowly becomes silent and gets into a trance state and finally sleeps take over. The p...

Dear Kiddo,  You started school on 27 June 2022. Before this day, you were asked to come over to the school for a couple of days to get know about the school environment, more like a trial class. The trial class also allowed the parents to sit in a corner of the room and observe what the kids do. You were totally in awe with the classroom and the materials that were available around. You happily went about exploring them one after the other, once in a while checking if I / V was around in the room. You enjoyed spending time in there, even though it was as short as 20 minutes.  The way you enjoyed those 2 trial classes led me to hope that you'd be fine to be there on your own. Well, you proved me how wrong I was to make such an assumption. The first day came, and V and I took you along to the school. You were excited to be there, but when we told you that we'd not be accompanying you into the class, your whole mood changed. It started with a mild whimper and grew into a full bl...