Monday, October 10, 2011

Unending List

The children are back. They were away for the Dussehra vacation to Chennai. As usual I got pretty worked up about having to send them. Were they better off here or there? Would they have more things to do here or there? Would they eat better here or there? I finally made peace with myself because the answer to the final question was 'there'. Soup, Aloo paratha, apple pacchidi, vazhai thandu, puttu, sundal, aapam, keerai, poli, bisi bele, pakoda - all kinds of variety in the daily menu.

I was supposed to get a whole load of things while they were away. I accomplished quite a bit - visits to branch offices, updating presentations, pest control for home, doubling the stack of used-clothes, vacation bookings, visiting frineds & cousins - chattting with them (yeah!), running, walking, cycling.

But I am still left with these - school bags, uniforms (it is still mid year, why do i have to do it?), weekly lunch dabba menu, tailor, shoes, giving away the old clothes, buying diwali gifts for maid, cook etc., returning library books, grocery shopping (why dont i ever have enough of Odonil?), learning to make appam, printing photographs.