Joyous!

My latest joy is to listen to "Maruvaarthai pesadhey" playing in our car while on a long drive:) Something magical in Sid Sriram's voice captivates me. The other peppy catchy song is Sarattu Vandiyile..We go on long drives often and music is what keeps us going. My kids also sing along for certain songs. My son's favourite is "Marry me Azhagiye". My husband and I exchange smiles everytime my son starts singing this song. We also watch a lot of movies. Of late, the horror comedy genre has too much to offer. The recent one was Ezra, a malayalam movie (with subtitles) was a good watch. Watching Prithviraj somehow made me think of "Kaatrin Mozhi" song which led to watching the song videos from that movie with my kids. And then my daughter got curious asking "Amma, why is he sorry?". We ended up watching the whole movie and it was so good to watch it again after so many years. On the weekends, while we get our chores done, 8k radio keeps us company. Life is so busy and mondays and fridays pass by very quickly. Music definitely lightens our lives and movies make us forget the current responsibilities and take us to a different world for a brief period of time! Just thought of taking some time to write down how grateful I m to have music in my life. I sure have no formal training; just a casual listener. I also can't seem to memorize the words even after repetitive hearing;)

Wondering is there a collection of smileys that I can use?

What do you do?

Hello everyone(is anyone even here?)..Being a mom of twins took over my life. I hardly found any time to write. Last September, my kids started school and I m trying to get control of my life. So about the title..I was asked the question by a person I met at swim centre and I was not able to give an answer.  I take sense of pride of being a mom and taking care of them but she was like - what else do you do. What do you enjoy doing? I go on," I keep the house running (cook, dishes, laundry etc etc). I do fitness. I listen to music while getting some of these things done." So that brought me to the question: what did I enjoy doing the most? I really don't seem to have an answer. Growing up, I used to read for pleasure (fiction). But now I can't sit down to finish any book. I read online articles and Facebook /whatsapp stuff. I bake for the kids occasionally ;my specialties being blackforest cake, french macarons, cookies and cupcakes . I do art projects with them; that's a recent endeavor I took upon-canvas, acrylic paint, water colors, tempera paint. Swimming was on my to do list for along time and I have tremendous fear of water. I finally joined a class two months back and learnt some basics. And now I keep practicing about twice a week; there is along way to go though. The first step is to face your fear and I think I have done that successfully. The key is to relax in the water but I m nervous. Okay, let's wind up the swimming. What else do I do? Like every other mom, I chauffeur my kids to all their classes after they are back from school. In the mornings, I m busy packing their lunch and getting them ready for school. They take the bus to school for which I m very grateful. Occasionally they miss the bus and I have to drop them. Then I have my coffee and catch up with messages and call up family if I have to. Get some chores done( this bucket is always full). Have a light breakfast.  Then either swim or DR exercise(I will get deeper into it at a later post). Shower and get any groceries done( there is unfortunately no one stop shop; Indian store, bulk store, regular store) or any outside work done like returning books to library, any returns or exchanges.Then it's time for lunch and then get some cooking done for dinner. By this time, the kids come home and then it gets busy with their snack, running them around classes, dinner and reading with kids and put them to sleep. Amidst all this, trying to find some time to study and get back to work. So this is what my life is currently like. I seem to be a jack of all trades but master of none:( Hope you are all doing good. I will try to keep up writing. Thanks to the lady that made me to think about writing:)