Happy days are Here Again...!!!!Have been enjoying a couple of days of "Winter"and it definately makes a difference, to most of the happenings around us, the people in the buses are more than happy to have the windows shut, and a slight crowd does not matter in this time, the fruits are luscious the blushing strawberry and the sugar watered Oranges, the black currants are all the rage in the fruit market, ....
I love this season, the cool morning walks, and some pet owners even wrap their little doggies with jackets and scarves, people sitting around a wood fire to warm themselves with cups of chai...I love these simple pleasures
Maybe we have just a few days left, as we have the festival of Holi which is meant to herald spring and then we get into the blistering hot summer, on the flip side don't we all wait for the King of fruits to arrive ?
For miles around us we will see a" golden sea"mounds and mounds of mangoes around us, people carrying boxes of them and some of them like me, setting out to make pickle, that is really meant to last till the next cycle, but believe me ... it really does not sit around for that long, an aunt here a neighbour there and the rest is meant for "us" "Hey mom where is the pickle you made last month ?"
Till then happy winter days !!!!

The year seems to be extremely busy and the same old ...time flies so fast, surely it does, with the year one month already flown away and my husband and me completing 25 years of marriage surely it does, The years are crystal clear and have lovely memories of the past .. miss my mother in law and father in law who had been part of us so many years ago and like I mentioned "Can feel their presence in our midst" it was a lovely evening we all had family and very close friends I missed my bridesmaid .... it was difficult to finally make out the guest list, had to leave a lot of people out of it, but some things have to be done and that was it,
The family support one gets in these times is tremendous and it was a wonderful five days of partying and fun, we hardly slept,the earliest we slept was at 0230 am ...... every morning bleary eyed, gulping coffee and grouchy for a while, then back to getting things finalized for the B Day.
We have the Almighty to thank in all this who has been with us every nano second,
parting was tough and it was very difficult I had my sisters in law together with their families who came from two different worlds and it felt good to know that we meant so much to them, certain we are blessed...
It has not been a smooth journey one of ups and downs, sometimes it was only downs left us both wondering when we would see the top, times we would feel so low had to reach up to tie our shoelaces..but like we know every grey cloud has a silver lining and that was it... sunshine after the rain, a rainbow out there lots of signs that tell you so,
Thank you all for being with us for the past 25 years ...