Sonali

It was a cooking kinda day! I cooked most morning and I had 2 vegetables – gobhi aloo(cauliflower potato) and baingan bharta(mashed eggplant), a dal and fresh home made idlis to show for my hard work. It was quite satisfying. I do love cooking but it is the washing up afterwords that does my head….

“It is important to fight and fight again, and keep fighting, for only then can evil be kept at bay though never quite eradicated.”- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince We completed 6th Harry Potter movie. It is a family favourite and we never get bored! I love the books much more and have read…

What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility – Leo Tolstoy We complete 20 years of marriage today. It certainly wasn’t smooth sailing all these years but our mutual respect and love conquered any challenges that we faced. When I tell people…

“Sometimes you will never know the true value of a moment until it becomes a memory.” I continued with my digitising project today and completed my wedding album half way. It brought back so many memories not just of our wedding but the people who came and memories associated with them. I remembered my bua…

Today was Good Friday and as a friend reminded me, it is about Hope! Hope for a better tomorrow and a better future for us and our kids. It was a cold rainy day today which meant that I had 2 adrak chai instead of one. It was also the first day of the school…

“Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.” Harry Potter and the Order of Phoenix I feel surreal – this whole thing feels like an alternate reality. The days are fusing into one another and 2020 seems a year beyond imagination….

A friend posted a beautiful poem on Facebook which was then posted by noted poet Gulzar in Hindi. The gist of the poem was that nature is thriving without humans but humans are not. It is man who needs nature rather than the other way around. I hope that once this pandemic is over, we…

It was a typical autumn day today – cloudy, cool with a slight breeze. The thing that I am most enjoying these days is my morning ritual. It consists of a hot cup of tea, usually ginger, in my backyard. Avi spent a lot of time yesterday mowing the lawn, trimming the hedges and getting…

But you know, happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light. – Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban What an apt quote in these times! Each of us to have find what lights us up and ensure we spread the same to our…

Let Life Flow! This was my motto for the year and I must say universe has its own way to make things work. My home bound self is discovering new things about me and life in this process. Even though I am an extrovert, have always been, I have always loved my home. I had…