What a day....!!!!

After reading the lovely post written by a blogger friend Sumita, a certain kind of 'feel good' feeling engulfed me. I always love to have a hectic day tagged with variety of activities. Stagnancy and monotonousness makes me irritated and lethargic. I still remember those few months which I consider as one of the low phases of my life when I sat idle at home (grad results delayed & pg classes not started). Anyways, as usual I digress. This kind of desired schedule I enjoyed during last couple of years of my job. My role offered me variety of activities and new challenges every day. But as now I am settled as a SAHM, honestly speaking, my life has again become very predictable and routine oriented. It is not exactly dull but yes, a bit stagnant. I don't deny the special joy & happiness which motherhood has brought in my life, but sometimes I do miss 'myself'.

So as I read Sumita's post, I yearned to write a similar post of my desired day. But recently, any of my normal day routine never qualified to make it up to my 'wish list' routine...every day is somehow same :-( But yesterday after a long time I went off-routine.

Woke up in the morning early with Mishti shouting and almost having a verbal fight with her dad. Poor daddy felt like cuddling the sleeping beauty but the daughter hates snuggling...while sleeping also she occupies almost half of the bed and rest half is left her parents. So she got super irritated with her dad and woke up before time. I tried to make her sleep again but when she refused to lie again and started her climbing sessions (yeah...she loves to climb the railings of our wrought iron bed), I drove the dad-daughter duo out of bed room.

As SG prepared tea, I pulled myself out of bed. After tea, SG rushed to wash his hair so that he can go for a hair-cut. He sports almost a military style hair cut and makes too much fuss if he does not visit his barber after every 20 days.....I think I should meet his barber once!!!!. In the meantime I prepare breakfast and try to feed Mishti. As I accomplish this mission SG comes back. I had previously planned to visit my parlor today....so SG agrees to prepare lunch and manage Mishti as well (You see...why I am so happy!!). It almost took me more than 2 hours there....came back and had lunch with hot n spicy Egg-curry & rice.

Then I started bugging SG that I want to buy some good tops...most of the older ones doesn’t fit me. After much nagging he gave up and asked me to go to the local mall and get it myself( he volunteered to look after Mishti in the meantime)......Me and my sis grabbed the idea(happy happy!!). We went for shopping and bought 1 top, 3 pair of footwear (one for me & two for her). I almost managed to lose the credit card!! Yes...after buying the top we went to choose some gift item for the baby whose birthday party we were invited the same evening. As we were getting the gift packed my sis went out of shop to attend some call...I was carrying all the carry-bags. Then we went to another floor of that mall and entered the footwear shop. But when it was time for billing....I could not place my credit card...Gah!!!.....I checked my wallet in and out.... and rushed to that gift shop....When I asked him, he smiled and said yes I have a card......ufff..Such a relief!!!...but as he took out the card, it was not mine!!!....I again went back to that footwear shop where my sis waited. Again we searched for it and found it my sister's wallet ....remember I was carrying all the bags so I kept the credit card back but in wrong wallet!!!

By the time we returned back it was almost 5:30 PM. As I mentioned earlier, we were invited to attend the birthday party of kid of SG's friend, so started getting ready....and left home at 6:30  PM.....reached there by 8PM ( in Delhi). It was a nice party organized in one of the halls of DSOI. Enjoyed the food and watched live magic show...It was fun. SG took Mishti to the magician when he took out a pigeon out of a box and made that bird sit on Mishti's arms. Ohhh God...that girl is not at all frightened and was giggling!!!.....Then after cake, dinner and return-gift we returned home braving the trucks & biggg long -tailed trucks over the highway...

Mishti slept in the car and was wide awake as she reached home by 11:30PM. Her mashu (my sis) changed her to night suit and fed her milk while I glued to facebook. After half an hour of struggle, mashu came out with her darling niece who didn't sleep and was more interested in her climbing stunts when put to bed. So I took the charge and took her to bed....forced her to lie down and kept patting while holding her legs tightly.....as she dozed I also slipped to snooze land.... Ohhh What a day!!!

P.S. Edited to add Mishti's Piegon experience snap.