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The person who inspires me the most. Bloganuary Day 6 Challenge! The person who inspires me the most is my spiritual Guru. Spirituality aside I want to bring forth all his characteristics that make Him my inspiration. He is a musician. My Guru has done many Healing and Meditation concerts throughout the world. It is…
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What is something you wish you knew how to do? (Day 5 Bloganuary prompt) There is a proverb in my language “What you have learnt is a mere handful: What you haven’t learnt is the size of the world. “ There are so many skills that I do not have and there are so many…
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What was your favorite toy as a child? (Day 4 prompt) I lived in a joint family with my paternal grand parents. One time my grandparents visited Madurai, (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madurai) a beautiful city in Southern India. They got kids kitchen wooden set for both myself and my brother. Mine was green and pink and my brother’s…
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Prompt for today “Write about the last time you left your comfort zone?” This is becoming interesting. I would never would have attempted to do a blog on this topic. It took me some time and some arguing with my husband to come up with this piece. When we talk about comfort zones, it can…
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My second blog in the Bloganuary challenge! My dream road trip is to visit all the temples in Tamil Nadu, India. Thanjavur, Brihadishvara temple will be my center point and maybe travel all around visiting all the beautiful temples around it. It will be a spiritual bliss for me along with enjoying the architecture of…
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An advice to the teenage me! As a mother raising a teenage son, I have to flashback myself exactly thirty years ago. I grew up as a very obedient girl (close to goody two shoes) who listened to everything my parents and grandparents . My only weakness was that I used to cry when I…
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Yesterday my son finished his first 300 piece puzzle with my help. It was his Christmas gift but in reality it was my gift since it made me happy 😃! 🧩 We have come a long way from struggling to match a triangle in a shape sorter . When he was 3 we thought he…
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Thanksgiving week our entire family were caught up in the covid storm. We all were double vaccinated but still got it! This was expected since my second son attends school and all other after school activities. As a Mom with an autistic kid I am not a vaccine person since for years I have been…
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I read a blog yesterday about how we shouldn’t smother our kids. I am always of that opinion, but we all tend to do it unknowingly. Teaching independence is one of the first and foremost we want with our kids. With my special needs one , it has been his goal right from the day…
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It is exactly two years since I started my blogging journey. I am happy for all the support from those who have read and commented on it. It takes time and patience to do that and thank you so much for spending your time. Multiple reasons made me start this journey but one thing I…
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As Christmas rolls around most of the TV channels change their mode from slaying to sleighing so fewer Criminal Minds or CSI kind of shows to Christmas movies. So one of the movie that I accidentally stumbled upon was Ponsettias for Christmas. With my lifestyle tracking and tagging my son it is really hard for…
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Today I gave my husband Lalitha Sahasranamam book and asked me to check my memorization fluency of the shlokas. He was pretty surprised at my fluency. Two years back I did do a detailed class on it and am learning the same with raaga now. But my first exposure to this great scripture was me…
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As Navarathri begins next week my preparations for it has been in full swing. My special one has been working on arts and crafts through his virtual program and with me and every bit and piece of it I have been breaking my head to see how I can incorporate them into my Doll show.…
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Temple and religious places have now become so political during pandemic. Is it good to keep it open or closed? Many people have missed the congregation and in fact a lot have struggled to keep it open. My struggle with temples started around the time my special one started exhibiting autistic behaviors. At the time…
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9 years ago Miracle League Baseball was initiated in our community with an amazing baseball field for special needs people. When fliers were sent out I really got excited about it and decided to enroll my son. My younger one and myself were all set to go on the field. But my son was not…
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I have been called a wonderful Mom, a warrior Mom and many things as I raised my special one. Maybe I became egoistic so nature decided I need to be taught a lesson. April 19th of last month my husband pointed me to a bird that was sitting on a pebble path around the baseball…
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It’s almost a year since the pandemic began! What a year. Life changed for many. Many lost their lives and many lost their livelihood. Many months people completely locked themselves up in fear of the virus. But time moves on things are picking up in different ways. Scientists have come up with a vaccine and…
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This blog I will be sharing my Navarathri golu. The video doesn’t have a written explanation of the work done by my special boy , so thought I would do a part 2 of Navarathri blog. Its not too late to teach old dog new tricks. My son has good gross motor skills but his…
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Navarathri It’s that time of the year. The time I socialize invite people or go to their houses. Twenty two years back I started this tradition with some toys. It was just after my son’s first birthday and I was too excited. Couple of cardboard boxes and stuffed animals and a picture of Saraswathi and…
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My special boy turned 23 today. He celebrated his birthday with kutty Krishnan this year. I have always been complimented by so many as being brave and being a super Mom. But during this time of year it us not that easy to put on a brave face. My son has minimum verbal ability. He…
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