Chicago
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The Perfect Saturday
We have a video monitor to keep an eye on Asha since her room is on a different floor than ours. She’s been sleeping in her toddler bed these days and the transition has been amazing in more ways than one. Now, instead of yelling “mama wake up” into the monitor at 6:30am, she starts…
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Spring Weekend
It’s under T-30 days with this pregnancy and I am still wondering how it all went by so fast. I mostly feel like a penguin waddling around with a nugget inside that won’t stop kicking my ribs. The joys of parenthood start early I suppose. It is truly exciting to be in the home-stretch though…
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Easter Egg Hunt
This year’s Easter Sunday was perhaps the most exciting of them all. Asha and I met with friends for brunch at our local favorite Belly Shack and then after a surprisingly long afternoon nap (I’ll believe it to be my present from the Easter Bunny), we went to Asha’s friend Quinlan house to partake in…
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Asha’s 2nd Birthday!
It’s hard to imagine that my little baby is already two. I’m sure that I will say the same when Asha is three, four, five … thirty, because even though as parents we expect our kids to learn and grow each day, the act itself seems so surprising and sudden at these milestones. How time…
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The second haircut
This weekend things finally started thawing around town. The sun felt so crisp and refreshing, and hearing the constant dripping of water was a good reminder that the dirty snow is disappearing and Spring is near! Besides being all sorts of productive, I took Asha to get her second ever hair-cut. She did so well,…
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City Guide: Chicago in the winter
For a girl from the South (and the tropical motherland of India), I am not entirely sold on the Midwest winter. There are days when the wind seems to pierce through my skin and into my bones no matter how many layers of clothes I am wearing. Thankfully this happens only a handful of times…
The Antibland Chronicles 