November
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Last Sunday ended my 3 week challenge of cooking with my boy every single day. You can read all about it here. It was fun with my boy. October 14th is the beginning of the Hindu Festival Navaratri and that is when my spiritual and cultural fun begins. So the next three weeks are my…
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Write about your most epic baking or cooking fail. When me and my husband first got married, both of us had no clue about cooking. We both were living in a hostel with a mess or canteen that was providing subpar food. So, when we got married, we had our own apartment and a full…
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What are you doing this evening? The day has not gone as I wanted. I had a class in the evening which got cancelled. So my evening is pretty much free. I have been a bit irritated too all day long and I attribute to my change in diet. Oil and me have a bad…
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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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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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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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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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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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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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What change, big or small, would you like your blog to make in the world? There are 31 million active bloggers who are posting on the internet atleast once a month in the United States. There are nearly 600 million bloggers world wide. Looking at the above statistics our mind may think, what would my…
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Describe your life in an alternate universe. We moved to this country when we were in our twenties. So we always talk about how life would have been if we didn’t move. We had a very special boy. We talk about how our life would have been if he was a neurotypical person. We didn’t…
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Yesterday I wrote a blog and said one of the things that make me happy was spicy food. My husband has been on a soft diet and due to my laziness we all ate what my husband ate. Technically I would call it baby food, with not much oil and no spice. So today was…