With a cancelled potluck and as usual my over enthusiastic shopping spree i ended up with a bag of red potatoes sitting on my counter top.Looking at my skinny son i made up my mind i will feed him potatoes in various forms and make himself one.
First day after lot of googling ,decided to try MacD style french fries.Settling my son for his nap,i sneaked into the kitchen and hurriedly picked up 3 voluptuos potatoes and started slicing.Keeping all steps and ingredients in mind i prepared...

I could not find a better word to describe my path of life for the past few years.Blame it on jinx , we(myself,DH and DS) have not sustained in a place,to be specific in the same residence for more than 9 months.Very frustrating indeed,either job change or project change we have been moving, shifting things ,packing,buying,settling and then whole process starts within a short period.When i look back my childhood,i had lived in the same place for 23 years,except for one change in house in the same...

Come sunday,I would wait for the newspaper to be thrown in to my home.Not that I am too involved in to current affairs..The eagerness is for the sunday supplement "Vaaramalar" which comes with Dinamalar, a tamil newspaper.Flipping the pages one by one,there I reach for the movie gossips column.The news will be all decoded and given indirectly for us to figure out who the actual person it.
At that age finding it correctly is like a big achivement to boast among friends.The clues...

Video conferencing is a boon to families living abroad to stay connected.Too much of anything is bothersome..This I learnt from my experience.Chatting with my parents with webcam on is not a problem at all.I chat often, not more than 5-10 minutes..inquiring this and that..I need not care about what i wear and about my hair do.
But if its going to be my in-laws ,it causes tension and stress in me.I have to double check myself on my dress and how I look in front of camera.Whole load of people...

It is weird to think that a place made of bricks and cement.. has seen the stages of my emerging woman hood..Which is not my home..It is customary in our family to celebrate the puberty of daughter with close relatives and friends..Lets not discuss the pros and cons of this now..
I hated the thought and idea of this..but due to pressure from elders..a kalayana mandampan of resonable size and price was booked for the occasion.Though we skipped lots of formalities..I was dressed in silk...