Twenty- five Seven

Why I didn’t sleep last night

May 29, 2016

Imagine being kept awake last night because of this!

There are some nights you don’t sleep because you have too much work to do and you can’t sleep until it’s done.

There are some nights you can’t sleep because of the street sounds that disturb you.

There are some nights you can’t sleep because the bed is uncomfortable ( especially if you are a fairytale princess) .

There are some nights you don’t sleep because you are excited and anxious.

But last night I didn’t sleep because of a gold hooped earring.

How could this tiny little gold hoop ruin my sleep last night ?

It all began when Ms Papaya decided to yank off my earrings along with my specs. I was amazed at the strength of this little girl … In between wriggling out of her towel and squirming in my arms, she managed to reach out to my ear and pull the ring out. Before it could make the predictable journey to her mouth, I pried it from her grip and congratulated myself for averting a disaster. I put the earring back in my ear and continued with the evening routine of feeding and putting the baby to sleep .

Getting ready to nod off myself, I reached out to remove the earrings and was shocked to find one missing ! I quickly jumped out of bed and looked all over the house trying to find it, even checking the dirty diaper bin!

The whole night I imagined that one of the babies had swallowed it and tried to keep all the horrid possible scenarios from flashing in my mind. I tossed and turned, got up from time to time and checked and re-checked every possible place it could have dropped off – the sofa,underneath the dining table, among the bed clothes. And all this was surreptitiously done for fear of alarming the other adults whose panic levels far surpass mine

Finally this morning I looked under the dining table for one last time and there in the morning light I found it glinting smugly – happy to have kept me awake all night.

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Tring, tring, telephone #Friday Reflections

May 27, 2016

What is a telephone?

We were looking through the picture book when we saw a picture of a phone

“What is that ? ” the little one said,

” A telephone,” replied I, patting his head.

“And what is that?” he asked again

“To help you talk to someone else.”

“But what about the screen? ” he said

“And how do you punch the numbers?

“And why do you have this wire and a tire with holes in the middle?”

I wondered about what he said and thought it

Strange that in just a generation, what we considered magical is now out dated.

No cross connections, or telephone operators

No phone directories and no broken wires.

No plugged in phones, one per family

Sitting proudly perched in common space

For all to hear your conversations.

There was a time these phones were rare,

(I grew up in a phone-less home)

And there was a phone call etiquette

We were told to
” Call only between 8 and 8, in day light hours,

And not too late at night.”

Weekend calls were frowned upon

As were long, conversations of meaningless chatter.

An old fashioned rotary telephone

These phones are long gone and replaced

By beauties that are sleek and smart.

More than just a simple phone.

They are small and cute hand held ones that go with you,

Like a shadow, stuck with glue.

These messengers who receive mails, take photographs

and send them too!

They sing to you , and talk to you

Keep appointments and shop for you

Allow entry into concert halls , let you board international aeroplanes too!

No wonder then you look for it ,

From time to time and feel it like a touchstone

Reassured, that at any time

You are just a phone call away.

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This photo prompt on #Friday Reflections reminded me of an earlier time when telephones were quite rare. Feel free to join this weekly blog hop and share your thoughts with other bloggers.
Puff,the Magic Dragon is clouding up my sky#SkywatchFriday

May 27, 2016

Clouding up my sky

Wednesday night found some Mumbaikars getting relief from the oppressive heat. But not me. On Thursday morning I woke up to Puff, a giant cloud of dragon chasing away the small puffs from my sky!

Is it my constant interaction with the little ones these days that makes me see clouds take on the shapes of characters from children’s stories?

In the meanwhile, we are all still sweltering in the heat and waiting for the rain showers that will cool the earth down.

Enjoy the weekend all!

Linking this to #SkywatchFriday where bloggers from the word share their skies