It was Karva chauth the day before yesterday. For all those who don't know, it's the annual fasting event for married north Indian women for the long life and health of their husbands.
It started on a great note the evening before with my darling husband gathering stuff for me to eat in the morning, trying to get me to put fab henna (which didn't work). It went on fine with us getting up on time- 4 a.m. with Anuj and the girls as well and hogging the delicious stuff he had bought for me.
In spite of some hiccups: my mother in law's endless bitching about me, it still went on fine till late afternoon. So what happened? I got a lesson in appropriate language by this lady on my use of 'don't you dare' to my son and she refused to do the pooja saying of all the things "I'm not fasting". It didn't occur to her that all these years she's helped me do the pooja, she's never kept the fast.
How can people be like this? Well before I had the great luck to find an amazing guy like A, I had no clue about women like his mother. I had heard stories of course, but one on one experience- no sir!!
Well I guess it's God's way of keeping an equilibrium- great guy = parents' in law like mine!!!
It started on a great note the evening before with my darling husband gathering stuff for me to eat in the morning, trying to get me to put fab henna (which didn't work). It went on fine with us getting up on time- 4 a.m. with Anuj and the girls as well and hogging the delicious stuff he had bought for me.
In spite of some hiccups: my mother in law's endless bitching about me, it still went on fine till late afternoon. So what happened? I got a lesson in appropriate language by this lady on my use of 'don't you dare' to my son and she refused to do the pooja saying of all the things "I'm not fasting". It didn't occur to her that all these years she's helped me do the pooja, she's never kept the fast.
How can people be like this? Well before I had the great luck to find an amazing guy like A, I had no clue about women like his mother. I had heard stories of course, but one on one experience- no sir!!
Well I guess it's God's way of keeping an equilibrium- great guy = parents' in law like mine!!!
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