BUNDLE OF JOY... ☺

10th exams are on the head, to ease him out, we were playing Rummy. I made him lost in all games & keep giving him challenges to be better player next time. He also don't give up & play with yelling at me loudly as if acceptance of my challenges.
I mesmerized there were days when My home used to be filled with laughter, arguments, fights, jokes and loads of mischief.

Books used to be strewn all over the show. Pens and books all over, and clothes messing the rooms, thrown on the beds.

We used to shout at him to tidy up his mess.

In the morning:
He will wake up and say :
Mama I can't find a certain book.
And the other will say : I can't find my perfume,
And one will say : Mama where's my homework.
And another : Mama I forgot to complete my homework.

Everyone used to ask about their lost possessions. And I will say, but take care of your stuff, be responsible, you have to grow up now.

And someday, I will stand at the doorway of the room. The beds would be empty. All the cupboards will have only a few pieces of clothes in them. And what remains is the smell of perfume that lingers in the air.

Everyone had a special smell. So I take in the smell of their perfume for maybe it will fill the empty ache in my heart.

Someday, all I will have would be the memory of his laughs and his mischief and his warm hugs.

After few years, my house would be clean, organized and everything would bd in its place, and it it would calm and peaceful. But that would like a desert with no life in it. So do not become angry with your kids about the mess.

Every time they come to visit and they spend time with us, when they are ready to leave. They pull their bags and it is as if they tug our heart along with it.

They close the door behind them and then I stand still and think of the many times I shouted them to close the doors.
But here I am today, closing my own doors. Nobody opens it besides me. He has gone to a different city or a different country. All left to find their own path in life.

They have grown up and I wished that they could stay with me forever.

Oh! God..... Take care of them & all other children wherever they may be, for you are their guide and their protector ...and always keep them happy.

If your children are still in the stage that you need to talk and talk before they could get things done in the house, please, cherish and endure it with joy, don't nag, they will soon leave your home for you, remember they were not there at the beginning of your marriage. Now that they are around, make them happy.

Dedicated to ...My Happy Dhyeya....