July – Special Mom’s blog

Some Kitchen Work

If you don’t engage my special one, he can be a nuisance. That is how we started cooking. Our main course is sambhar and the curry powder I use is completely homemade. The past few years I make my son participate in dry roasting the ingredients and making into a powder. Usually this quantity lastsContinue reading “Some Kitchen Work”

Silk varieties

Silk sarees have always been a passion of mine. Though a bit guilty, I enjoyed the extravagant saree that I purchased at Kancheepuram , famous for silk sarees, for my marriage. But silk has undergone so many variations and we get soft silk and silk cotton sarees now, which I indulge without spending too much.Continue reading “Silk varieties”

Touch wood

Last year my garden was attacked by a bunny . He munched anything and everything that grew. Growing plants was hard. It was depressing to start my garden this spring. But I am raising an autistic boy. So I always have hope. So we started with so many precautions. But the bunny family had multipliedContinue reading “Touch wood”

Visit Erie

Many years ago I used to watch a reality show called the amazing race. Participants start at one place in the US travel around the world and are eliminated as they travel along. I loved every part of the show since the adrenaline rush is high. Visiting different places, doing different activities, meeting different culturalContinue reading “Visit Erie”

Cleaning up

The past few weeks I have been trying to clean up my house. To start the process of clearing things out I found out I needed to have a strong mind. Even a tiny bit of attachment to a piece of cloth or a mug is going to collect dust again. Two weeks back IContinue reading “Cleaning up”

Sunday on the Montour

When I did my bucket list in June, one activity I wanted to do was a 5k walk. To do a 5k somethings need to be in place and it did not happen. But today was great. I have an app called map my walk that calculates distance, pace and time so I decided toContinue reading “Sunday on the Montour”

Ancient

When you see messages like these, that makes you feel ancient not the the long buried civilizations eras. For RDP Wednesday prompt: Ancient

Happy 4th of July!

With so many red white and blue projects with my boy in the past six weeks forced me make some American food for my parents. A 4th of July party setting with zero planning. Being vegetarians my younger one shopped for his grandparents so that they can eat at peace without questioning about the ingredients.Continue reading “Happy 4th of July!”