Tag: parenting
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Fly a Kite 🪁
Day 29! As I finished the activity for today, my Dad called me a ring master😂! Yes everyone participated in the activity today. I grew up in a very conservative household and one activity a girl was not allowed to do was fly a kite! Ha Ha, even if they had got me one I…
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Make a bird feeder!
Day 28 Challenge! When I started this challenge I told my Mom everyone needs to participate. My Mom said good luck with your Dad! You cannot make him do anything. Yes approaching 80 one definitely looses interest in things but I was sure as things progressed I will catch his attention. I did when my…
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Home away from Home
Day 27! Today my special one attended a party with DJ and music, arts and crafts, game and of course food. It was definitely fun. We made a red white and blue craft work and he was so concentrated that he was the only one who could thread his beads to the twine kept there…
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Fitness Trail.
Day 24! Parks are great place to walk and if you have good trails it is a wonderful experience. South Park near our house has an amazing trail path around a pond , so our activity today was at the park. We did have a picnic with our friends two weeks back but we were…
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Day 23, Dollar store trip!
I decided my next activity should be cheap. After browsing through my bucket list I headed of to the dollar store. It is not a dollar anymore. Everything is one dollar and twenty five cents now. I was lucky I found what I wanted from my bucket list. We got a suncatcher. As I walked…
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A South Indian snack.
Day 21 of my challenge and it is summer solstice, the longest day of the year for us. A snack staple in every household while I was growing up. A snack made by the ladies of the household in the month of February in India when the sun was perfect and the weather was comfortable…
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Pool Games!
Day 20! After involving my whole family yesterday today was me alone with my boy at the pool. We did indoor pool already so we decided to go outdoors and I had some pool toys with me. More than ten years ago while I was talking to another Mom, she told me how her therapist…
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Father’s Day!
Day 19! Happy Father’s Day to all the wonderful Fathers out there. The silent heroes. Today I decided my family to run the show. In the morning I got a new basketball, baseball set (since my son started liking and playing) and some table tennis balls. Remember those T shirts we tie dyed, that was…
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The Monongahela incline.
Day 18 of my challenge! If you are joining me today, during the month of June I am doing different activities with my special boy and my family and making journal entries of the same. We live in a city of tunnels and bridges. What is the best way to have the view of this…
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Paint in the park?
Today we drove to a lake and spent the afternoon/ evening there. It was just supposed to be a paint in the park day but we ended up doing a lot of stuff. It was a nice warm day and we decided to make some cold cucumber sandwiches with mint chutney in the park. My…
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Miniature Golf
So, I saw the above on my son’s program’s face book page. My special one is now an young adult and my typical kid is going to be a senior coming this fall and it looked as if it didn’t matter much for me. But as the day went on and as we prepared to…
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