Conversations chez moi on 1st April 2017...

 Conversations chez moi 

yesterday : little one to me ....if you say Yes to me mama (he needed an ice cream) i will teach you bad ..bad words in Japanese 

me: too stunned to say anything 

today : elder one to me .....this kind of cramming is sooo crimping my style ...i am not cut out for Studies ...i am a free bird and like to study different things ....this is 3rd degree torture ... 

me : i can't take this anymore ....same story every summer for the last 10 years !!!! sigh ...plan to make him give his 12th Boards in October ... when i was working ...i would take a week's leave and ego massage the elder one to finish his papers ...coz once in 7th std when he knew he coud not fail ...he walked out of his science exam as he saw his juniors playing football ....his science teacher was aghast and so was i to see his answer sheet ...

i am already waiting for 24th April ...end of exams 

sometimes i wonder who hates exams more ...my elder kid or me 

the little one has finished studying for all his exams on his own ... french and math were the only two subjects that needed a little help from me 

two kids and soooooo very different they are ... 

Imports from Mars and ego massaging them during exams ....Phewwww :(

Custard

 4th January 2022

Yesterday custard with toast was my dinner...i used quite a bit of the custard powder and i love the jelly like consistency of the custard...i used full cream cow's milk as the skimmed milk powder is over... and that helped ∆ the consistency of the custard i guess... 

during childhood thick creamy custard with loads of fruits and nuts... was a standard sweet dish for parties at home and everyone loved it...my dad used to buy buffalo milk from a farm near the AirForce station where I grew up... ergo the milk used to be Thick and the custard very creamy ... I usually got assigned the task of chopping up the fruit and nuts for the fruit salad as we used to call custard with fruits ...

After we grew up custard with fruits is Rarely made by my mom or anyone else as a sweet dish for parties...i too Never served it during any party i held chez moi while living on the Tea Estates...where the Effort and Time taken to make the sweet dishes were Marked ....sweet dishes I made a day before the party and were Elaborate affairs...i rue not clicking snaps of the food i used to cook during those 6 years of living on the Tea Estates...a Herculean amount of cooking happened even on a daily basis... due to guests I was hosting the whole year...

Evening tea itself had so many aspects to it...a sweet element, a savoury element, something store bought, nuts and even eggs ...

There is a huge difference in what is served by an ordinary Indian house hold on Tea Estates even today and the system of using cloth napkins and crockery and cutlery...

All those systems went out of the window when I shifted back to Pune and my boys were toddlers... their favourite activity was playing with plates and glasses and throwing everything ever so often...

I packed up All the breakable stuff and switched to steel utensils...

And That was That...

4th January 2022 ...Chaya and COVID 🙄🙄🙄

 Herbal Tea is an Event in itself...so much I put into an Ordinary Chai ...Pune strangely is a Mega Magnet for corona and it's Morphed Forms ... Ergo my Chaya/chai/chahha/tea is Hazzzzzzzar Fortified...

Sniffles have Never Garnered Sooooo Much Attention in any Era since my Birth...

My kids went to the Trampoline park on the 24th and came down with Sniffles and Runny noses on Christmas Day and I have been Going OverBoard with the Chaya Therapy and Brewing Tea like a Witch of late...

It's Healing and Has a Huge Placebo effect Too...no ???

I am Glad that my kids have Taken to drinking tea ...tender mercies i am Thankfull for...🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

PS: my kids refuse to drink tea and coffee now...they rejected tea and coffee mid year, last year 🙄🙄🙄

As i post this on January 4th 2023 ...COVID is rearing it's much morphed head and we all are Beyond bored to care 🙄🙄🙄