Wedding Bells...

Wedding bells are going to ring in my aunt's home soon and she being the dearest to one and all in the family, I get the feeling that everybody is highly excited. My mother is going to desert us for full two weeks and I'm wondering how it's all going to work out. One of the options is sending out SOS signal to my old maid to fill-in the gap but the thought itself is a bit painful. So I've postponed thinking about it till I'm really pushed to do so. I would've shamelessly asked for a working-from-home a month ago but now things are different at the office. Everybody is jumping at the mention of a 'bug' and I don't even dare stand in front of my boss with the proposal of being absent from my seat.

My mother has been giving us all some anxious moment by being temperamental and irritable. My son is the one who's getting the most affected by this, having been her darling all these years. Actually she's been working very hard, not allowing me to do a single thing as if she's taken a vow and I feel she's getting tired and worked up. But unfortunately she's never been the one to listen to anyone and arguing with her is worse than banging your head against the wall; both the parties end up getting hurt.  And as regards to my son, she seems to be gripped with a sudden fear that he is growing up to be a spoilt brat and at times I feel sorry for my son when he looks bewildered at the sudden burst of my mother's anger towards a benign mistake.

My daughter has been speaking a lot nowadays and our favourite is when she says "aphisha"(office) when we ask her where her Baba has gone.My mother says she is more reluctant to say the same when asked about me but she's slowly getting used to it. She speaks many other words too and has started getting attached to books, her pet being her brother's textbook with cars, elephants and fish.