Life

5:20 am : A Cold Sunday Morning.  No alarm, yet the mind's alarm wakes me up on the dot, without fail every Sunday. I look at the boys, fast asleep.  Mommy in me feels like letting them sleep for a few minutes more. I go to them and whisper, hey do you want to sleep in today or go for your football/cricket classes? The answer with sleepy eyes is YES AMMA,we will go to the ground.. The tone for the day is set with the enthusiasm the children have. 6:00 am The boys are ready in their uniforms, spic white for cricket and red for football. We still have 15 minutes so we decide to cycle to the ground for their sports practice. It is cold and nice, I enjoy the speckle of sunlight and the morning dew. Traffic is sparse with just the few newspaper boys and milkmen all cloaked up. To me chaperoning the boys for their respective classes is no chore. It is JOY. Unmatched and unparalleled.  6:15 am The venue is a burst of energy. Effervescent, ebullient, bubbly,e...

Life with all its events and elements can leave you feeling overwhelmed and burdened - several times. Many a time, we get lost in this fast paced choatic life with its myriad aspects, and that is the time to reintroduce you to yourself and appreciate your life. In the recent few weeks,inundated is how I have been feeling with the innumerable things that I am doing. Being an entrepreuneur, in ways more than one, being Mommy, daughter, daughter in law,sister, friend, soulmate,wife and most importantly the "Taxi Driver"!! There appears to be so much on my schedule and plate that I do feel like taking another sojourn to the Himalayas.The thought of being away from routine and normalcy was alluring, however not real or feasible at the same time. Taking flight or running away seems to be the best answer and I am doubtless that we all do indulge in it in our own special ways.  Since the option of ambling away from my everyday was unavailable to me, I started explo...