Category: February
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Learning a lesson
New water pipes are being laid on our street. It is a great thing since the old pipes thrown out seem to be broken. The price to be paid has been water shut off notices. We had one shut off last week and one was issued this week for Tuesday but the shutoff happened yesterday…
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Black History Month
Yesterday I learnt along with my son about Alma Thomas, an African American artist during his online arts class. We created an abstract painting just like hers. https://youtu.be/fm4y088mXh8 https://news.artnet.com/art-world/alma-thomas-retrospective-1973476 My son needs hand over hand while painting but yesterday, he independently made a sun and we developed on it. We used red, green, yellow and…
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Trails
Off late we have been crazy about walking on trails. What began as a 10,000 steps a day has transformed into 5k walks. So, where can we enjoy these 5k walks. Of course on a trail! The Montour connects to other rails-to-trails in western Pennsylvania and beyond: the Great Allegheny Passage (GAP) and the C&O…
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Recipe?
My Mom’s recipe book is in Malayalam, her mother tongue which I cannot read since my mother tongue is Tamil. My younger one is confused. Ha ,ha, I have to accept my father tongue is Tamil.
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Brahmopadesham
It has been exactly seven years since I went to India. The last time I went was to perform Brahmopadesham (supreme teaching), and Sacred thread ceremony for my younger son. The sacred thread signifies the following: the one who wears it should be pure in thought, word, and action. remember the debt that is owed…
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Balloons
This is for ragtag community prompt of the day “balloon” We celebrated my son’s 21st birthday and his graduation with a cruise. We were on the ship on 4th of July. We used the service autism on the seas which was wonderful in various ways. After years of spending money on treatments and therapies I…
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Talent show
Found out today morning one of my son’s online classes has a talent show. This was all of a sudden since we do not attend this particular class at that particular time. Keeping fingers crossed we did Twinkle Twinkle Little Star (missed the recording) and Happy Birthday (recording above) in spite of so many hurdles…
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Capricious
https://wordpress.com/read/blogs/63199771/posts/5874 Life is not easy. People keep comparing their life to others and start throwing a pity party. My son being capricious, it is easy to fall into that party mode. We need to move ahead with our life ignoring the moments of his behavior. Time to enjoy cinnamon raisin bagel with cream cheese and…
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Shopping 🛍
Yesterday I went shopping. Wanted to get some full sleeve shirts for my son. It is middle of winter and and our favorite ground hog Punxsutawney Phil has predicted six more weeks of winter so those extra shirts are very much needed. But the store has already moved on from winter season to spring and…
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Forecast!
The weather improved today after snow and freezing rain. It felt like a heatwave as the temperature crossed 32 degrees farenheit. We went for a good one mile walk outside. With snow banks it was chilly but we wanted to be out in the sun. Unless you experience something bad it is really hard to…
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Table cloth
The Ragtag Daily Prompt is Tablecloth! When my kids were growing up my dining table was a mess! So I was obsessed with table cloths😀! Do you know I was able to pull all these pictures just by using tableware on my iphone photo search. Learning new things every day. These are just a few…
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A personal choice /decision
The weather has been nasty with rain, ice, sleet and snow for the past 48 hours. The schools and after school activities were closed. Every learning activity moved online. For my son this is out of routine. He needs to be out of the house at least once a day. Yesterday we managed it. But…
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Search Engine
I received an email for an online craft project. Supplies needed were a photo frame, glue and a bag of conversation hearts! Now I had no idea what conversation hearts meant and so I had to use my search engine. I found out what they were and went out to pick it up at Walmart.…
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