River side mom’s talk
The Journey: One sunny day evening we all planned to go out. As usual, I was excited to go out; and when I am happy Abigail shares my happiness. We packed her food items and started our journey. The place is little far away from our home, we had decided to walk. Along the way, we discussed about our friends, made jokes, munched pop-corn; and much to our surprise, the journey ended soon. Within 20minutes we reached the place.
The Place: It is situated on a river bank. The boardwalk is concretized with railings all along the bank. There are some trees, a park and some benches there, too. We have always seen the river flowing with clean water throughout the year. We stayed there for a while, walking and enjoying the evening breeze. I started thinking and talking about our own experience there. We had missed living near the river bank.
Rendezvous: Abigail loves to go out side. She likes to see new faces, new things and so on. There we saw a family, a mother was taking a picture of her son and husband and they also spoke in Tamil. Hearing our conversation, she asked me “Are you from Tamil-Nadu?” My face brightened, and I replied yes.
The Toddlers: We introduced Abigail to them and to her son, Gyanu. He was two months elder to Abigail. He was walking without any support. I asked Abigail to shake hands with him. First both were very shy and kept seeing each other. Abigail was not ready to play with him. Gyanu also hid behind his mother and peeked at us and at Abigail.
Mom-Talk: Suddenly my husband reminded me, “Are you forgetting your regular maternal interview that you ask every mother you meet?!” Mom-talk started soon. Our conversation went through what phases Gyanu had gone through, his feeding habits, his diet, his sleeping pattern, his growth chart and delved so deep that the men broke away into their own conversation.
This may have been a simple thing, but when you live far away from your own place – it was a big break for me. Such small conversations and meetings with people give me happiness.
The Place: It is situated on a river bank. The boardwalk is concretized with railings all along the bank. There are some trees, a park and some benches there, too. We have always seen the river flowing with clean water throughout the year. We stayed there for a while, walking and enjoying the evening breeze. I started thinking and talking about our own experience there. We had missed living near the river bank.
Rendezvous: Abigail loves to go out side. She likes to see new faces, new things and so on. There we saw a family, a mother was taking a picture of her son and husband and they also spoke in Tamil. Hearing our conversation, she asked me “Are you from Tamil-Nadu?” My face brightened, and I replied yes.
The Toddlers: We introduced Abigail to them and to her son, Gyanu. He was two months elder to Abigail. He was walking without any support. I asked Abigail to shake hands with him. First both were very shy and kept seeing each other. Abigail was not ready to play with him. Gyanu also hid behind his mother and peeked at us and at Abigail.
Mom-Talk: Suddenly my husband reminded me, “Are you forgetting your regular maternal interview that you ask every mother you meet?!” Mom-talk started soon. Our conversation went through what phases Gyanu had gone through, his feeding habits, his diet, his sleeping pattern, his growth chart and delved so deep that the men broke away into their own conversation.
This may have been a simple thing, but when you live far away from your own place – it was a big break for me. Such small conversations and meetings with people give me happiness.
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