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With some meal plan in mind I entered the grocery store today. But as I started picking up and as the cart started getting filled up, my brain just got overwhelmed. What was that overwhelming, it was drizzling outside and I was just overthinking how am I going to get them all inside. But when…
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For Christmas this year, I ordered a gift for our entire family. It was a scratch off chart to show the states we have visited in the US. Along with it we got an additional scratch off chart, The National Parks scratch off. This made me curious as a I started browsing about National Parks.…
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You’re writing your autobiography. What’s your opening sentence? If I could get my 500 word blog read by an audience I am thrilled. So my first words would be “Thank you my friends for opening my autobiography .” Now it is upto them to stop there or go further. In this age of vlogs and…
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What experiences in life helped you grow the most? There is a proverb in my language, தன் கையே தனக்கு உதவி, to translate it, our own hand is our help or to it’s English equivalent “Self help is the best help.” I have experienced this many times in my life and I have felt more energized…
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February weather was much better than January. More sunny days than cloudy days. I had a list of tasks to be completed by my special one for February and nothing was accomplished. But we did something different than our original plans. Last week of February, as I erased my tasks written on the white board…
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Do you enjoy your job? I wear too many hats and have multiple jobs. I love my job as a wife, being a partner of my household and making important decisions for my family. I love my job as a special needs mother to an autistic young adult. Every minute of his day needs to…
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It felt like Spring on Monday as I took a picture of these beautiful snow drops. All of a sudden the temperature dropped today afternoon and snow flakes started flying around . The wind made sure we had our jackets zipped up and the snow dropsjust a memory? So I checked my weather app and…
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My son’s program has a Home in the Community called Connecting Me Home. I have written about it a couple of times of the activities we have done there. I tell myself I need to take my boy there often but it get missed due to so many reasons. I take my husband for moral…
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Describe the most ambitious DIY project you’ve ever taken on. The first time I put on a light bulb all by myself I was elated. Call me spoiled person I have never done any DIY projects on my own. Let alone an ambitious one. My husband has put together some shelves and built an indoor…
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Sometimes a small act of kindness can take you a long way. Today was very busy since we had too many errands on our agenda. One being taking our comforters to a laundromat to be washed. We decided that would be my son’s chore and a great community activity. We had to get some cash…
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Sara had a fight with her husband, she picked up her keys and drove to the mall, the intention being to spend something for herself. She walked to her favorite store and that is when she saw her High School friend from long time ago. A surprise! She completely forgot her problems, sat with her…
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WordPress Prompt asked what was my favorite drink this week and I wrote a blog saying it was coffee. I embedded a video of my husband making one and God blessed me with a Cappuccino maker this week! Here is that link to that blog. Okay, we had plans to buy this for a month…
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What bores you? Kids sitting in the back of the car on a long drive, husband in a mall waiting for his wife to finish shopping, wife waiting for husband to finish watching a game all will be bored. Boredom happens when it is not a preferred activity. But I would like to add any…
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What is your favorite drink? So do I need more proof to show my favorite drink? Here is a video of my husband and my special one making coffee with Instant Coffee powder at home! If you like coffee like subscribe and share my post 😃😃😃! You will not be disappointed I write about coffee…
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Who are your favorite people to be around? I would love to have positive people around me. I would love to have fun people around me. I would love to have people encouraging around me. I would love to have people with empathy around me. I would love to have people who are hard working…
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One of our photo frame broke a few days back. My in laws are no more and it was a photograph of them with my husband and sister in law taken nearly forty years ago. To replace the picture frame took us a while since it is not easy finding the right size or if…
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A popcorn skin stuck in the back of my tooth a few days back. That is when I remembered a Tamil proverb, பல் வலியும் தலை வலியும் தனக்கு வந்தா தான் தெரியும். Tooth pain and head ache need to be experienced. It all started with me trying to poke my tooth. Initially I was very careful. My…
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Write about your approach to budgeting. Pandemic came out of nowhere, followed by staff shortage in loading and loading cargo and that in turn led to prices of stuff shoot up. War in different part of world, not one but two led to gas price increase which led to price increase of everything from a…
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Valentine Week began last Saturday when my boys participated in a Cupid 5k Race. My younger one helped his brother to complete the race without me participating. I wrote all about it here. Then the next day we had to drop my younger one off at his college and stumbled upon this trail and nature…
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The store bought cake has no aroma nor does it have an unique taste! The burning candles on top of them do not have a specific scent or a fragrance! Yet the memories associated with them are lifelong! Written for Three Things Challenge #605, aroma, scent and fragrant.
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