Welcome to the June 2016 Gratitude Circle bloghop! This month seems to have gone by way too quickly. With my son home for the holidays, we’ve been running around trying to accomplish a lot of things. I guess being busy always makes it seem like time is racing by. But we also…
Vidya Sury, Collecting Smiles
At the best of times, parenting is not a smooth ride and neither is co-parenting. It involves keeping your cool when you really want to … ah, never mind. Surely you have your own imagination! You know what I mean. It means a lot of forced “zen” for both Mom and…
There’s something so satisfyingly special about watching the rain from indoors. Warm, cozy, safe, and with a big mug of steaming filter coffee, while the water drizzles or lashes haphazardly, humoring the wind, loitering around with it, playing with it as it drenches everything in its wake. The scent of the…
I love coffee. As per a recent survey, apparently 60% Americans enjoy their daily coffee and make it part of their routine because they believe coffee keeps their brain active and maximizes their efficiency. I’d wholeheartedly agree. But yes, it is easy to love coffee for its own sake – it…
I am a big fan of cartoon shows. During my childhood, there weren’t many but we absolutely adored the few comic books we could get hold of and enjoyed their words of wisdom through inspiring quotes. But those days are nothing compared to the abundance we have now – as I found…
I can safely say I am a #Johnsonsbaby. My association with them goes back a long, long way. J&J products were considered a premium in the 60s when using homemade cosmetics was the order of the day. My first J&J kit arrived when my uncle, who worked in Defence, visited their…
Dear T, Life is a wonderful journey where we meet souls that sync with ours. Sometimes we meet them early in life and take the journey together and there are those we meet along with way. We see them, and our souls meet and click, as if the missing pieces just…