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What does your ideal home look like? My ideal home should look like houses on HGTV. Does it? No! It does not! Should I be worried or am I worried? No, I am not. We have things lying around. My laundry may be folded a day or two late and my house may have some…
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Why do you blog? Today morning I woke after sleeping for more than eight hours at stretch. I called my Mom and told her that in my dream my dead grandparents had contracted covid😃! My Mom was their caretaker for many years so we had a laugh about it. So why was I so tired?…
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How are you feeling right now? Sunday night for a wordpress prompt I committed myself saying I would be cooking with my boy every day for the next day ten days. Five days done, and I would say my boy has cooked something with me every day. This week was not great. I would say…
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What daily habit do you do that improves your quality of life? For the past six years I have been trying to do atleast 10,000 steps a day. Usually with my small steps that is 4 miles. I wanted to loose weight by walking but that did not happen. I had to cut down my…
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Image Credit; Tobias Tullius @ Unsplash With heavy heart Sam inserted the cassette. He was giving away his car and dropping it off. It has become more of a liability. Not only was it difficult to maintain, he had decided to go green and get an electric car. The one thing his electric car didn’t have was…
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What TV shows did you watch as a kid? Television was a luxury when I was growing up in India. In fact color Television was considered a pride. We just had one channel and we didn’t have many shows. It wasn’t until early nineties we saw an influx of multiple channels and boy, it did…
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Took these pictures when I made a two mile walk with my boy in Presque Isle ten days back. I have the same hibiscus in my home, yet my curiosity made me get close up pictures. I had to balance myself on a rock and it was a small adventure for me. For Cee’s Flower…
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What’s your favorite recipe? Another day, and I am writing about food again. Anyway I am on a roll so why not. I am not a cook and was never interested in cooking. So many things made me a home maker and I can now make a decent meal. But I have been forced to…
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Tell us about the last thing you got excited about. It looks like all this week I have been writing about food or making videos about food. Okay, we all need food to survive and it is definitely part of our lives. Today we went to ISKCON, Krishna Temple in West Virginia. It was an…
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Today is Varalakshmi Pooja. A ritual I greatly enjoy. The past three days my boy had been helping me in the kitchen but today, I literally banned him since I really wanted some peace. A long list of food is prepared and offered and my white board was ready with that list. In fact I…
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Today was cooking day for my boy. Do you know cooking involves so many activities and sub activities that need fine and gross motor skills. Then, there are other activities around the house that needs to be attended to while cooking happens in the kitchen. So it was a busy day. Yesterday there was a…
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Irene looked up at the clock and saw that it was five minutes past seven. She was so tired after work that she thought she could take a quick nap for a few minutes but she did not expect to sleep for more than two hours. Her mind was raising thinking about her toddler, and…
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My brother and sister in law gifted me this Lily when they visited me in June. The hardest part of growing a plant is not killing them. I was surprised how big this had grown inside a greenhouse in a botanical garden that I visited last week. I think it is time for me to…
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What do you love about where you live? To raise a special child, environment is very important. It is more than inside the four walls of the house. We have created an atmosphere that my special boy thrives. But we are blessed to live in a community that accepts my son. He is accepted at…
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Today my walk with my special boy was at Presque Isle Bay. I seem to stumble upon wonderful things when I walk with my boy and today too proved to be one. My husband rested himself on a park bench while I took a 2 mile hike along the trail. I saw the above information…
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One of the best things we do as a family is visit zoos. It is a great place to spend time as a family and learn new things. My special one loves to pet the animals at the petting zoo and feed them too. But the one thing that I am scared of in a…
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What brings you peace? Sunday night, after my family went to bed I sat and switched on a mindfulness music that my Fitbit app provides for free. Sometimes it would just be music, or sound of nature or a person giving some motivational talk. That day, it was a five minute positivity talk and just…
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As I take my walks with my boy I have started noticing more of these wild flowers. I do not have much time since my boy can walk away from me. So I take a few shots and come to see what they are on my app. I try to post atleast once a week…
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For the past year, My younger one kept saying he wanted to bike on the Great Allegheny Passageway. The 300 mile trail runs between Pittsburgh and Washington DC. His goal was to bike from Mckeesport to Ohiopyle a distance of 60 miles. After many many hiccups, he was able to accomplish his goal today. We…
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If you were going to open up a shop, what would you sell? I am not a business person. I also do not like to take risks. So this would just be a hypothetical answer. I love flowers. So I would love to open a flower shop. This means I have to learn a lot…
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