Athaan

I cannot believe that it was a year ago that we were in the corridors of the Guru Nanak hospital, in Bandra. I still remember the cacophony I was surrounded in with both aais {gauri's and ours} breathing down my neck and pestering me to go see whats the latest development in the labor room where Gauri was kept. Oh God, that anxiety, the tremors, the thoughts that ran thru my mind, my heart with no one to share with, since Sanket was with Gauri and I had to appear quite happy and confident because of Aai and Baba and the other Aai. Our aai worries amazingly well. She is so protective of her brood that anything goes wrong,she will worry. Not that something was going wrong that day, but yet, we were all anxious.I constantly kept texting Sanket and he kept us updated too.
And finally post midnight,we got the news. Its a boy!! Oh the joy..the heralding of a healthy baby into the family, for whom we have waited for so long, well it felt amazing.
I still remember sneaking into the Labor room barely few minutes after Athaan's birth. And me and Sanket spoke to him and when I asked him to pose for the camera, he simply looked at us as if he just knew what I am asking to do.
And I cannot forget the fact that somehow, despite being related, I and Athaan share a special invisible bond.The bond, that I created by coming thru the mission that Gauri and Sanket had assigned me with. Of looking out for a name for the baby. Oh, I just looked for it , found it. But he is going to give it the real character while he is growing up. He will define it the best as he ages.But thats the bond we share,isnt it Athaan!!
Today he has completed a year and me and Satyu are a little peeved that we cannot be there to celebrate with him and the rest of the family. Well, so this is our small contribution in the celebrations of our baby..

Athaan

We waited with bated breath
It was this day a year ago,
Oh it wasn’t day,it was late at night,
No sleep or food,which we had to forego..

Aahhh but it was worth the wait
when we knew u had come,
into this world,to fill our plate,
full of joy and then some.

Sanket and Gauri,Aai and baba
Satyu and Jayu,overnight became
Aai and Baba,Aaji and Aajoba
SatyuKa and JayuKi..

You filled our lives with baby smells,
with ur snorts and squeals.
You came and you became the
Apple of Aajoba’s eyes.


Oh those nine months,such a long span,
was worth the wait for the arrival of the
newest and the youngest
member of the Pathare clan.

Happy first Birthday Athaan..

We love you and wish the bestest for you.
This day is special..and so on this special day, for our special angel, I ask God to shower his most special blessings on you to make you as sincere as Sanket Baba,as passionate as Gauri Aai, as honest as Aaajoba, as loving as Aaji, as hard working as SatyuKa and as much fun and goodness of the rest of our family and friends.

Time

Time is so funny. There was a time, when I thought that 24 hrs were not enough for me and I needed the day to be at least 5 hrs lengthier. There used to be so much to do and so less time to fit everything in. Even when I quit my job and got married and went for my classes, there was less time.So many things left undone due to lack of time.
And now, I am passing through this phase of my life, where 24 hrs seem too much to be in one day.Now I wish the day was shorter.I have so much time on my hands and so little to do.No pets, no books, no close pals,no family,no classes.I know that this will pass too and again I will feel that time is less.There will be so many things to do.And then again I will come back to this and write another blog about hw less time I have. Sighh..Human tendency: we always crib with whatever we have. If we got less, we want more. If we have more then we either want lesser or more. And the best part is if we have more of good, we want even more of that. But if we have more of bad stuff then we want less, and not more.
More or less, I am quite bored now and so am writing some rubbish thats probably indecipherable. Hahahaa.
These days, I am obsessed with videos of Tanvi. It reminded me how crazy i used to be about her. I still am, but when she was little, I simply couldn't keep my hands off her. I had to hold her, squeeze her tight and laugh at all the silly kid things she used to do. There is no child on this earth, about whom I was so crazy about. It was like, the 2 of us had this connection which could not be explained.
I feel sad, that I am missing out on her growing years now. Tejas will be soon entering college in a coupla years,Tanvi will be entering secondary at that time, and Athaan will be probably entering play school. Gosh, these kids..One day they are tiny tots and then suddenly they are these semi grown adults. Time..its so funny, this time..