And as I write this one, I do want to highlight the crazy times we are living in - the Corona times. Like most of us, we've locked our lives at home. They call it the "new normal", but it isn't. It's nothing close to normal. Not living at home, but the fact about our life being locked up at home.
We doubt everything we touch and everyone we meet. Kids can only look at their slides and see-saws from a distance. We're breathing the oh-so-fresh-air from behind a mask. We're washing and cleaning things like crazy. We've not been socializing. The shops are closed. Our favorite pani-puri guy is gone. No balloon-sellers, no roadside cacophonies, no hair-cuts, evening strolls by the 'chowpatty'. No school buses and office-goers on the streets. No queues outside the neighborhood temple.
I can go on forever...
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Kids. San has grown more silent and Oli has become a chatter-box. San wants to go back to the US and Oli wants to go everywhere. San dreams of owning a big bungalow and Oli dreams of making sandcastles at a beach. They are so different.
Oli has been devouring Peppa Pig's episodes. She talks like Peppa and cries like George! :D
These two girls are the Tom and Jerry duo! They fight, they play, and they care for each other! "Aww" moments and "Aarggh" moments galore!
They're busy with their online classes now - thanks to teachers for all the efforts they're taken to make this setup a success!
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We're 6 of us, locked up at home. Tempers can't fly out. Tempers can't stay in. Do what now? Screeeaamm! At times, it feels like I'm deteriorating, both physically and mentally. I've become a robot. I always work against a clock now. There's always a routine running in my head. Cleaning, mopping, kids, classes, laundry, office, dishes, food - it's a mish-mash soup in my head.
I should stop here.
