29 September
2013
31 August
2013
Her final word…
Nikita and I climbed to the top of the Stone Mountain this morning. After climbed back down, we sat down in the shade, took out our food from the backpack and rested for a while. Trying to gauge her future interest in climbing up a few more neighboring mountains, I asked “What do you think?”. Pat came her reply – “When I grow up, I am pretty sure I will not be a mountaineer” 🙂
31 August
2013
Atop Stone Mountain!
25 August
2013
Time for forty winks…
25 August
2013
Morning walk after morning run
Most favorite part of Sunday mornings – walk with Nikita on the tree covered dirt roads. Today’s topic de jure was GCF and LCM of three or four numbers. During the mile and half walk, I kept on pushing her with bigger and bigger numbers to see how much mental math she could do. Eventually, she picked up a twig and made a quick hash of it by writing down on the dirt road and solving it 🙂 I called foul. She said “Whatevs” !!!
17 August
2013
My Hero
Last evening, Sharmila and Nikita were discussing all the events of Nikita’s first week of 4th grade (school reopened this week). Evidently, in English, they had to write about “My Hero”. She finished hers and then after school found out that her best friend had written about her mom. (Niki had not). So, Sharmila demanded to know how come she did not write about her mom as her hero.
Nikita’s unforgettable response: ” Ummm… I don’t think you are hero material”
I am like, “You go, girl” 🙂
11 August
2013
Sung to the tune of the Gone With The Wind song….
10 August
2013
Salt Lake City
This morning conversation with mom:
She: “Ei soptahey tour-e jaas ni?”
Me: “Hnah. Gechhilam”
She: “Kobey phirli”?
Me: “Ei to porshu din. Tomay bollam na airport theke phone korchhi”?
She: “O! Kheyal korini. Ekhane bairey eto awaj sob somoy thik korey shona jay na. Kothay gechhili?”
Me: “Salt Lake City”
She (very very confused): “Tui ekhono Kolkata thekey berosni?”
🙂
3 August
2013
Ummmm…
2 August
2013
