2011 has been wonderful. It’s the most memorable year of my life so far and I’m thankful for every excruciatingly exhausting sleepless night and every cherished milestone that the past year has brought me. I have a baby, home and am getting the hang of the fine balance that is life as a mother while maintaining a little of my…
Author: Aditi Wardhan Singh
I'm a mom living in Virginia, enjoying chronicling my various escapes with the kids and around the kitchen. I believe being a mom involves a balance of holding on and letting go. And since being a mom is a 24/7 job, cooking though essential, needs to be as easy as can be. So peruse my blog for various experiences in parenting and experiments in cooking.
Nuggets for Rememberance
she said , ” I’m falling. ” he whispered, ” i have wings. ” — awww 🙂 When you love someone more than they deserve, you end up hurt more than you deserve. “Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” ? Marcel Proust Honesty is a…
Days of Errors
Have you ever wondered why it is that some days just nothing goes right ? Everything you touch seems to turn to ashes. You get up on the wrong side of the bed and then one by one, the dominoes keep falling such that by the end of the day you feel like you were hit by a truck. You…
Things New Born and New Mommy Need
We all wonder as we step into the world of parenting what all we will be needing for becoming a mom. Below is a list of things you will need for baby and new mommy on the D day and the beginning of the baby’s life in this world. MISCELLANEOUS Crib. [ if your planning to keep baby separate. Though…
Uljhan Raat Ki
Read this recently – Bas ab ek haan ke intezaar me raat yunhi guzar jaayegi, ab toh bas uljhan hai saath mere neend kahan aayegi, Subah ki kiran na jaane konsa sandesh laayegi, rimjhim is gungunayegi ya pyaas adhuri reh jaayegi… My reply to it – uljhan sulajh jaayegi umeed ko baandhe rakhna, raat ke baadalon mein chupe taaron par…
Putting Baby to Sleep – a Year of Trial and Errors
Putting my little one to and keeping him asleep has been my Biggest hardship as a mother. Now coming up to one year, things don’t seem any easier. But then we were forewarned. Everyone we met with the news of our newborn told us to be prepared for 2,3 sleepless years. The question I had right from the beginning up-till…
Whiteout by Ken Follet
Read this last week and after ages found a different style of writing. It’s my first Ken Follett book and I was pleasantly surprised. The descriptions of scenarios and relationships are vivid and real. You don’t feel like skipped through paragraphs to get to the real stuff. The story’s characters, without going into extreme detail of psychology are thick.…
The Wronged
A few days back I was thinking of the BAD things I’ve done in life, to people I’ve really cared for. You know what I’m talking about. Those thoughtless actions that you take out of selfishness or in some weird concept of righteousness. When I think about them I feel so guilty about it that I wonder how I ever…
Lovers and Players by Jackie Collins
A typical Jackie Collins’ book. If you’ve read one, you pretty much know what to expect in the next. That is a relief for some and a downer for others. In my case, I knew just want I felt like reading when I picked this one up. Except you still cannot guess when the next expected twist is about to…
Knockout by Catherine Coulter
I just read this book and I wouldn’t recommend it. The story is about a girl who sees her relatives burying bodies in the night and then tries to get help to save herself and her mother. Well, it’s more than that. There is another story intertwined in it and a big dollop of supernatural in the same. The writing…