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A personal work made us drive North! When I told a good friend of mine that we were driving up, she suggested why not visit the Niagara Falls. Yes, after a polar vortex that plunged so far down south, there was some hope Niagara would be frozen! When I checked various social media websites people…
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Happy Republic Day to India and my friends and family in India. I kept the promise I made myself this week, that I would walk outside half a mile if the temperatures reached above the freezing point! I made 1500 steps outside in the afternoon and it felt good! Hopefully I would achieve more as…
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Name an attraction or town close to home that you still haven’t got around to visiting. The past few years, the work with my boy has taken me around most of my city. In fact we have traveled so much around our town I had to zoom on my maps to see what places I…
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Someone posted just 45 days until 7 pm sun sets. It may be a frozen tundra outside but spring is fast approaching. I checked my phone for flower pictures and when I saw this one, I could remember the smell! This sweetbay magnolia is found all around our mall and there is a bench next…
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List five things you do for fun. I am going to change the prompt to fun things I did this January 2025. Try to make that 10,000 steps a day! All my steps were taken indoors! The weather looks promising from Saturday hopefully I may try to do atleast half a mile outdoors! Planned for…
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Three weeks done with January and the weather has been rough! What did I miss? I have been making 10,000 steps and all has been happening inside our rec center. Missing our trails and outside air. This is the last day of polar vortex! Florida, Texas and Louisiana do not have winter weather tools like…
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Write about your first name: its meaning, significance, etymology, etc. I wrote stories last time for this prompt. Anyhow the root of my name represents the root word verb Gam Dhatu which means GO. BUT I AM NOT GOIING OUT ANYWHERE TODAY ! The current temperature is minus 2 degrees farenheit! The sun has no…
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Early morning I wrote a blog post and I thought I did, but it was a page! Have to learn the difference. So here is the link to the page! Not in a mood to write the post again. https://specialmomsblog.mom/cold-%f0%9f%a5%b6/
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Every week, I check our Temple’s calendar to see if there is something interesting for my son to participate in. This week was Pongal so it was a no brainer to attend Pongal celebrations this Saturday! Hey, it was a heat wave and I get to wear a pretty saree I got as a gift.…
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If you could un-invent something, what would it be? Necessity is the mother of invention. None of the inventions were made for human kind to suffer. We humans started abusing them from pain killers to plastic. Plastic was invented to stop trees being chopped and pain killers help with major surgeries. Once the invention happens,…
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Can you share a positive example of where you’ve felt loved? My son finally had a dentist appointment. It was at U Pitt Dental School’s special needs clinic. We were warmly welcomed by Dr. Muhammed. He introduced as a person from Chennai and told us he knows Tamil! Yes, he was same age as my…
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Where can you reduce clutter in your life? A good night’s sleep happens when our brain is free of thoughts! Oh, the clutter and information we create in our brains is too much! My son has a dentist appointment today! I had one Britbix detective come in my dream as a dentist and tell me…
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What is your favorite animal? My Pongal celebrations in North East US continues. The day’s task was to offer the leftover food to birds especially crows. This is done by sisters for the welfare of her brothers. In return the sisters are presented with gifts. I have a brother, a lot of cousin brothers and…
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Morning, I wrote a blog saying it would be a busy day with me cooking for Pongal Celebrations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pongal_(festival) But my special joined me in making all the dishes! This is the first time, I feel I am not a food photographer. Teaching my son in the kitchen is a task and the work he…
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In what ways do you communicate online? Happy Pongal to all my Tamil friends around the globe and Happy Makara Sankrati to all my other Indian friends. It is Uttarayana Punya Kaalam or the time the sun starts His upward journey! Yes, days will start becoming longer in Northern Hemisphere. It is a day of…
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Think back on your most memorable road trip. Our road trips started during the pandemic and it has become part of our lives! My boy turns 28 this August and I think at his age, learning happens not in a classroom but out in the community! I remember the HR in my son’s program talking…
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What snack would you eat right now? I was cooking all morning and didn’t even have time to think about the prompt! Then we were at the mall and I asked my husband if I can have an ice cream! Oh we are not having a heat wave, but that was one thing I wanted.…
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I usually do my yoga class in the basement. But I forgot how cold it can be without the heater. I had to do the same in my living room today and my husband and my som witnessed my poses 😊! I thought my boy would disturb me but pleasantly surprised that he did not!…
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My husband and my younger one were arguing over lunch which was unhealthy? My home cooked Ven Pongal (rice lentils and clarified butter combo) or a chipotle wrap! My son asked Chatgpt for the answer and Chatgpt gave a smart answer saying it all depends on the toppings. After a week of sickness it was…
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What is your mission? I was pretty curious what I wrote last year for the same prompt as a part of Bloganuary! I had credited my husband for fixing our bathroom hot water tap without a fuss! Of course that was one major mission accomplished! Now we have some broken chests that need to be…
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