-
ant smasher.
-
happy birthday, priya!
-
priya’s house.
The kids have had a fun week with Priya while David and I are laid up. They love playing at her apartment, which is a couple miles from where we live. I sent my camera along to get a glimpse of their day. Roshan, Amie, and a neighbor friend Some of you may wonder what it’s like having a full-time house helper/nanny. As you know, I am very, very grateful for Priya. She is one-of-a-kind . . . such a hard worker, takes initiative, great sense of humor. She makes it so fun. But having house help does come with some challenges. First of all, I still haven’t adjusted to…
-
morning at the gardens.
This morning Priya and the kids joined Alison and her gang at the Botanical Gardens.
-
thursday.
What a week. David’s surgery went well, and he’s at home limping around, looking great. He has a follow-up appointment with the surgeon tomorrow so we’ll see where he stands (no pun intended). I’m still laid up, sick, and on top of that I just starting a medication that makes me completely out of it right now. Apparently so out of it we had both our cell phones stolen from practically under our noses yesterday! But don’t worry, they’re back now. Ha. That’s a whole story in itself, one I’ll let David share. No good news on the doctor front. Priya and the kids and I went for my appointment…
-
pool fail, terrace fun.
Remember this photo from last April? Well the same scene greeted us this morning when we went for a Skyline swim date with Keli and the kids. But what is life in South Asia about if not learning flexibility, right? So, we had a talk with the kids about disappointment in life, had a talk with ourselves about disappointment in life, and enjoyed hanging out on our friends’ terrace instead.
-
the scooty.
-
april first.
It is the first day of April, and I am sick. You know what? On the first day of March, I was sick. My sinus infections still pop up monthly, more regular than PMS it seems. So here I am, at the start of another month, trying to hold off until the last possible minute to buy the Dreaded Antibiotics. This is a difficult place to be in. At the risk of sounding like a broken record, I have taken antibiotics almost every single one of the seventeen months I’ve lived in South Asia. And, on top of that, I pick up a random GI virus almost as often. You’d…
-
swimming pool!
Just about every day I think, “What did we ever do without Priya???” She is one of the hardest workers I’ve ever met, constantly thinking up news ways to serve our family, help me with my diet, and keep our home in tip-top shape. Her latest plan: to garden our terrace. I worried that I’d feel awkward having another person in our house all day, but that hasn’t happened at all. Since Priya speaks English, I feel like we’re becoming friends, but at the same time, she is so good about giving us space to just be a family when we’re at home together. I love that she’s used to…
-
things that make me happy right now: teaching priya to read.
A week of my favorite things . . . “Madam, I’m sorry but I don’t know how to read,” Priya told me, one of her first days of work. I had, unthinkingly, showed her a spice label when we were cooking. And then, the first time she brought Roshen over to our house, she pulled me aside and said, “Madam, if you don’t mind, would you read a book to Roshen? I have always wanted to, but I can’t.” In that moment, I knew without a doubt that I wanted to teach Priya to read. So I did a little research, and that next week: “Priya, would you like to…