Yesterday was an ordinary day when I greeted the grey sun at 6 am. Running against a time bomb in the morning, caught between washing bottles, cleaning, diapering, cooing, cuddling, chores and the usual race against the clock that culminates in a very tired mom eating breakfast in the car on the way to yet another day at work in Mumbai.
Yesterday was an ordinary day when I broke for lunch at noon. Running some more errands, filling insurance policy documents, writing more cheques, researching on schools. Time flew and with it flew any aspiration of a more organized together me.
Yesterday was an ordinary day when the skies broke into tears on my way home. Weary clouds, turgid with the weight of yet having achieved so little burdened my shoulders. The long commute home mirrored with broken atms, a hunt at more than 8 chemists for baby stuff, traffic, honking and me navigating lifes puddles.
Yesterday was an ordinary day when I called my husband at his office and went on a venting spree for 20 mins where I shamelessly complained about everything and everyone.
Yesterday was an ordinary day when I reached home and launched full fledged into my second shift of bottle washing, cleaning, diapering, cooing, cuddling, chores and the usual race against the clock that culminates in a very tired mom eating dinner in the 10 mins between the time baby is sponged to baby being ready to go to bed.
Yesterday was an ordinary day when the rains lashed across the city suddenly in a wild deluge bringing with them an erriie foggy darkness than descended like a curtain on the happenings of the day and city and a day in the city in my life.
Then, on a whim, I played music while rocking Ananya to bed and Air Supply filled our small room with their beautiful melodies song after song. Ananya decided that she liked the music and smiled her way to dreamland.
And as I held my little bundle of joy, waltzing with her, my thoughts worries and complaints suspended somewhere in a dream space between chorus and motive...Yesterday stopped being ordinary.
And it hit me like a freight train - how close to perfection everything was.
And suddenly and sheepishly - I was thankful, grateful and more than ever ..hopeful.
Amen
Yesterday was an ordinary day when I broke for lunch at noon. Running some more errands, filling insurance policy documents, writing more cheques, researching on schools. Time flew and with it flew any aspiration of a more organized together me.
Yesterday was an ordinary day when the skies broke into tears on my way home. Weary clouds, turgid with the weight of yet having achieved so little burdened my shoulders. The long commute home mirrored with broken atms, a hunt at more than 8 chemists for baby stuff, traffic, honking and me navigating lifes puddles.
Yesterday was an ordinary day when I called my husband at his office and went on a venting spree for 20 mins where I shamelessly complained about everything and everyone.
Yesterday was an ordinary day when I reached home and launched full fledged into my second shift of bottle washing, cleaning, diapering, cooing, cuddling, chores and the usual race against the clock that culminates in a very tired mom eating dinner in the 10 mins between the time baby is sponged to baby being ready to go to bed.
Yesterday was an ordinary day when the rains lashed across the city suddenly in a wild deluge bringing with them an erriie foggy darkness than descended like a curtain on the happenings of the day and city and a day in the city in my life.
Then, on a whim, I played music while rocking Ananya to bed and Air Supply filled our small room with their beautiful melodies song after song. Ananya decided that she liked the music and smiled her way to dreamland.
And as I held my little bundle of joy, waltzing with her, my thoughts worries and complaints suspended somewhere in a dream space between chorus and motive...Yesterday stopped being ordinary.
And it hit me like a freight train - how close to perfection everything was.
And suddenly and sheepishly - I was thankful, grateful and more than ever ..hopeful.
Amen
