Just when I thought I was Sunshinemom, my kids grew up. Jr.H turned thirteen last year. Jr.P always seems to be mixed up about his exam time-tables and dates and consequently I am hyperventilating most of the time. Seriously I am "Freaked-out Mom."
Just when I started taking pride in being the one to introduce the latest music to Jr.H, telling her with undisguised pompousness that she knew Green Day, Jason Mraz and Taylor Swift much before her peers only because of me, she made me realize a couple of weeks ago that I was behind. Someone called Train with "Hey, Soul Sisters" had come and reigned the charts and I never knew! Suddenly things seem to be moving at roller coaster speed and I am afraid I am being left behind. I had to reluctantly agree that yes, the song (HSS) was good umm.... promising! I still got to be the first one to tell her that Shakira had borrowed Waka Waka from an African band and not given them due credit. It was small salvation though. Thank God, for itwofs!
I take pride that I have an eye for gadgets and familiarise myself with them very soon but imagine this. P bought an Nokia N75 the other day and I did not even feel the slightest urge to hold it, feel it or steal it as I would have felt a year back. The loss of urge for a gadget shocks even me!!
The other day I told Jr.H I planned to write a love story and she said, "But mama, you are forty!"
And here comes the biggest blow; I have been keeping up with the social networking race pretty well, starting orkut, ditching orkut, being active on facebook, opening an account in twitter and then in Indiblogger and now I find I am flagging there as well. I did not know until the Indiblogger meet yesterday that we had a dashboard in our profiles. I did not know much about their ranks until I got a mail sometime back telling me my rank was falling as I was no longer updating my blog. I am still proud of the 80 they gave me sometime back and thought I was na but thankfully it seems I am low but not out at 67:D. So there is hope?
Well, got to roll up the sleeves first and start again. I am going to start updating this blog, start tweeting, start fbing, start sending messages left, right, centre on indibloggers dashboard as soon as I get over with the kitchen, the sleep, the children, the trauma of going bi-focal (the feeling I realize is the same as how I felt when I was first called aunty by a girl who was about three years my junior!) and well before I actually turn forty! Hope you will be there with me then to boost my morale and help me regain my cool Sunshinemom stature!
Hey, am flagging. Remember? Will be back tomorrow with the mushrooms in green gravy.
Maybe I could still blame everything on the approaching corrective vision problem. You know? The time for bi-focals?
i am so glad ur back,..and ya u r so right ,..about kids,..;-)
ReplyDeletehey sunshine mom!loved reading the post..and glad to know that we will be seeing more posts here..
ReplyDeleteI am fully with you Harini, and good to see you back..liked reading the post :-)..and sunshinemom will always be shining and rising everday to her kids and to her readers as well ..
ReplyDeletehugs and smiles
Ha ha i loved reading this post, especially your daughters remark when you siad you were going to write a love story.
ReplyDeleteWell when daughter and I talk and then seh say oh it was a old lady and she was like this or than and I ask her how old was she then seh say she was 40 :-)
Happy Cook, I know!! Over the hill always means forty:).
ReplyDeletemy daugher calls me not just old,but fat as well.I have stopped taking her seriously.
ReplyDeleteVery happy to know that you are back with yummy posts .Waiting for the mshrm, is it the mush methi masala that you had told me earlier? Love it. And tonight its your mush badami for me.
I don't know if I am gonna feel the same when I turn 40 but I completely agree with you on how we lose track of certain things in our life as we grow up old. I think @ 27 I have a similar feelings but on different things. Good to see you back in action and will wait for the Mushroom green gravy
ReplyDeletesunshine you always will be :-)
ReplyDeleteI am not the sunshine, but I am with you when you talk about being behind .. I am in everything and my blog is not yet 2 years old... social networking is beyond my "anti-social" nature.
Glad to see you back and looking forward esp, to you AWESOME original pictures.
Soma - www.ecurry.com
Loved reading your post...Glad to know you will be regular here. You will always be a sunshinemom and think of this as passing clouds blocking the sun shine.
ReplyDeleteLOL, are you atleast having that feeling now, I am already having these exp with my daughter..:)..dont you worry we are here for you..
ReplyDeleteYour blog is so lovely. This was an awesome post!
ReplyDeleteI'm so very excited for what's to come. I love meals with mushrooms!
Best wishes from one blogger to another,
~Zabrinah
hey, I'm a new mother and your blog post gave me mixed feelings. But considering both of us are in Thane, I hope to rely on you for advice (on parenting and photography--seriously, woman--you should take classes in food photography!)
ReplyDeleteSweatha, my daughter does not say that anymore but she used too, when she was younger:). Hey, how was the mush badaami?
ReplyDeleteRV, that's too early. Have you been talking to teenagers? They do have a tendency to make you feel like that sometimes but being in the company of youngsters generally rubs off a lot of their energy and freshness as well!
Soma, you and anti-social? Thanks:). You have such lovely pictures yourself!
Jayasree, not serious. Just laughing at myself. What is life without a little bit of poking fun at oneself? Thanks! You are a darling:).
Valli, I could use your company and have some of your chaklis and laddoos along with the company.
Zabrinah, thanks for visiting and glad I will be dishing out next, what you like:).
Saee, I take my photography seriously! Thank you for your kind and expressive words. They mean the world to me and keep the lip curved upward. Tips on parenting? A topic that even an expert can't claim any knowledge of! Your kid will teach you everything. All you need to do is love and play with her. Just enjoy the present. It won't come back! She will question you soon and you will be reduced to tears at silly things, laugh at the silliest of things that never seemed to have humor in them earlier and she will have you thinking - a great deal!!
Awww...don't you worry a bit...we are all there for you regardless of the numbers (age, vision or blog marks).
ReplyDeleteI agree that we loose a part of us (like u being a gadget freak and me being a movie buff)as the numbers increase, but hey, that just means we need to find something more interesting to ponder, wonder and tear apart!!!
Well, I am glad that you would pop in into blogger more often. Waiting for the next post already.
Liked the post a lot and its goot to know that others share my anguish as well. While the things I am bothered with these days are a little less 'serious' than yours, they are quite similar :)
ReplyDeleteBut hang in there, we will not be taken down so easily!
Bhagyashri, welcome. I guess that is what makes moms supermoms. Because they retain their individuality despite the chaos. It requires Superhuman quality to do that! And I will be there for you when you come to this stage too. Thanks a lot!
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