Celebration weekend

Preparing for July 4th weekend. Happy one for lot of reasons. Aniekths's 5th birthday that always coincides with July 4th weekend. Would like to find out what will be a good exciting birthday event for kids. Do they really enjoy birthday parties at 5 years age? Or do they want to play bowling and video games?? Have to see how they respond this week.
Regarding fire works -watched a spectacular display of fire works done between two casinos of two countries US and Canada. It was pretty amazing. Can you believe 25 mins of fireworks. Thats a long time.

Nope. Its not a ThinkPad.

Thats what Kanna said today.

Whaattt? I was stunned and jumped out of my seat when I realized what he said.

He thinks it is not ThinkPad because it is not typing what we are thinking. We still have to physically press the key 'K' to type his name. When he asked me what is my laptop name I said it is ThinkPad. Then he explained me saying - "Nanna, look. It is not typing what we think. It is waiting for you to press a key to type. If it is a ThinkPad, it has to type what we are thinking without key press"

Frankly I was surprised that a 5 year old can think like that. And then I am more surprised that I never though about it. May be we are in the world where we are just taking things as they appear and we never really look for how great they can be? May be next gen!

Heyyyyy... It snowed in Dallas

So beautiful... Sitting at the breakfast table with kids on both side watching the snow. Our breakfast area has three windows big enough to go around our breakfast table. So we opened the blinds and pulled them up all the way. Turned our chairs towards the window. Sitting cuddling each other and watching the snow fall on the grass. Such a lovely scene. We could see only snow flakes nothing else. They covered even the neighbors home. It slowly started like a frosting on grass and quickly became like a snow carpet and in no time it became a thick layer of 6 inches. Then the kids remembered snow man. So we get to go out and made a snow man that is in make-believe shape. All is done in 15 minutes. By then everyone started becoming wet and cold so came inside and had a nice coffee. This is not a regular scene in Dallas. Only once in 5 years so enjoy it.

Christmas in school days

For those wondering about the title - I did my schooling in St.MontFort Boarding High school. So for every Christmas we get holidays to go home and celebrate festival at home. For few of those holidays I went to friends' home instead of mine and celebrated Christmas with their families. Even though it sound very simple to go to some friends' home instead of your home in holidays - its not. At that age itself we used to plan it meticulously much in advance. It all starts with letting parents know that I found a friend who studies better than me(better than me is important here) so they feel good about it. Then the next step is to slowly making them aware that we are studying together and doing home work together. Then it goes on complaining that we were given so much home work for holidays and only working together can help us finish home work in time. So using all these we can get a ticket to go to friends' place. Once we are there I always used to get good treatment as I am the guest and most of the time youngest as I am the youngest in my class. In fact I was one of the elves in a show. So I saw Santa Clause talking in Telugu and kids wondering why Santa is giving only candies even though he is famous for gifts. There were lot of decorations we do to create the hut, Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus. After all this - I used to go to my home for some days before returning to school - with all my home work intact. My books still unopened from the suitcase and me with lot of excuses.

And almost there for break

Been busy travelling NY and CA for a month. Waiting for Christmas at home. Met couple of relatives that I missed for some time. One thing I learned is - go to details in everything you do. Superficial or overview opinion might not be representing what it is at the core. So details are necessary for accountability. I think this applies to anything - money, career, kids, family ...

And in the contrary - if someone or something is bothering you don't dig for details and pick the fight. Just move on. Somethings are better left out. Not worth a beautiful mind.

Back to Work

No time is enough to say enough playing with kids and having fun with them. Like every good thing - my break also came to a pause - back to work in Orange County, California.

Unusual weather here at 84 degrees but hope it will change to little cool weather. Just decided to implement one thing - never ever hate any one more than needed. Sometimes thinking about something that you don't like might hurt you. So decided to find a reason not to have grudge on anything. Looks like these are my thoughts as I am getting older. Damn... I am getting old. Less aggression is good anyway...

Having some time with kids

Just got a break from busy schedule of travelling overseas. Thats coming to an end in a week. At least had some quality time with little ones.

While doing some workbook, Aniketh doesn't agree that rain makes roads muddy. His argument is when it rains the water flows on roads but not muddy. Did you get that - here the kids do not know that there are roads with mud. Different perspective.

Hard to teach them to appreciate cement roads wen they do not know the mud roads.