...so much for your wonderful birthday wishes to Aniruddh. He actually does our traditional Namaskarams very adorably and I convey those to you on his behalf as well. We had a good birthday weekend going out with some friends and shopping and generally having fun. Missed Chakku sorely, but will celebrate again after he returns.
BTW Chittappa, I read this blog religiously and look forward to my lunch break every single day. I simply love reading your pieces and am just plain lazy to be more participative. I promise to work on that hence forth.
When Arun anna and Kalyani manni called to wish Aniruddh, I shared a Gutloo episode with them that he said would be nice to share with the family on the blog and here I am trying to recount what has been by far, undoubtedly, my most wonderful "Mom Moment"...
When Gutloo is generally unhappy coz didnt get a toy he wanted/bruised his knee/cant reach the top of the stove/got scolded by amma for dropping toy blocks in the toilet..etc...he has a weird way of getting comforted. He likes to lie on my lap and I pat him for a few minutes and kodufy his hair. He enjoys it and I guess thats his "comfort zone". I am not going to delve at the moment on how it is funny that he can find reasons to be sad and mopey even in his "completely devoid of woes" life. The other day I had a pretty bad day at work, was very unhappy with office politics, couldnt make it on time to my gym class, was out of salt for cooking, out of maggi too, bumped my head on the counter, and long story short was on an edge. And here, innocent little Gutloo comes and asks me to put on his cartoons on TV. I did. It was not the cartoon he wanted. So he started raising a tantrum and I got completely nuts and started giving him a long bhashan on how everything is going wrong and how i really dont care if he got to see his cartoons today and narrated a gist of my day at work to him in a very frustrated tone. He was just watching me with his jaw dropped and not comprehending a word of what i was blabbering. (In fact even I was not quite understanding what I was saying). So after 2-3 mintes of ranting, I kinda stopped to catch my breath and he did the most adorable thing EVER! He ran to the couch, jumped on it and curled and opened his palms at me...saying .."vaa...vaa...vaa". I went to him and he put my head on his lap and started patting me! I completed choked on how touching that gesture was. I am at loss of words to express what I felt at that moment. I fell in love with the whole motherhood thing so hard...am yet to recover from the impact. That cute little konjal he gave me made me realize how pointless everything else I was ranting about was.
So I just picked up the phone, ordered pizza, and we both got into the Rajai and watched the cartoon that he actually wanted to see...
love,
Kanchu
Ps: I am attaching one of his birthday photos....
Dear Kanchana,
ReplyDeleteKeep Gutloo ever smiling. Our worlds revolve round our children.
Lots of Love
Naresh and Uma
Naresh uses the word "our" before children. I would like to go one step more; our worlds revolve around chidren..... period. Gutloos overwhelming desire to soothe his mothers uneasiness, permeates all through, from Arun and Kalyani who want everyone to know about this, to Naresh, to me and everyone of us who has heard, and will hear.
ReplyDeleteThe responsibility to bring this about in children, rests with parents, relatives, and a kind of social lubrication, which is termed as "satsangh". Chances of an Idi Amin's boy, doing this is quite difficult to imagine, but this cannot be attributed to the child, but to its environment of bad social lubrication.
And there my dear young and sweet Bahu, you come out with Ace of Spades trump. Bringing out the innately great qualities of a child is also a very important "karma" and you seem to have exceled in this.
May God bless you and your child "anirudh" which literally means "one who is capable of taking many forms" and which he has demonstrated in brief by becoming your mother for those difficult moments.
Love
Vichu
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ReplyDeleteI am quite speechless - not that I am much of a talker otherwise.
ReplyDeleteAnirudh seems to have really matured since I came to India. I am hoping that thats not the reason for his maturity :)).
I am eagerly looking forward to going back and spoiling him again.
Hey Kanchu,
ReplyDeleteHow utterly lovely ! That is the sweetest thing I've heard :-)
Cant wait to meet the little feller :-)
Love,
Madhuri
Totally priceless!
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