christmas!!!!

2008 xmas has passed but it was my first one ever since i started my own family.xmas eve was spent at bhabhi's place along with rashi & family and balvinder. dint have to talk much to others as aaru kept me occupied for the major part of the evening.He even started feeding me ;) as opposed to what i am supposed to do..then we made a hit for the midnite mass along with rashi and family. the church was already filled so we could not get any other place than the one next to the crib.but anika started crying and so rashi had to leave in between.rak also got caught somewhere in the back and so i was all alone. Wished some strangers Merry Xmas...I received the Holy Communion after a 9 month notice and was so happy. We dropped back Veeru half-way back and then we hit the bed around 2 in the nite only to be woken up at 7 by a happy voice from home wishing Xmas!! it was Pa,Ma,tijo and toji..we were hardly in our senses, so we promised to call back later in the day. Finally we managed to crawl out of the bed around 8.30 to start the lunch preparations. We had invited some of rak's colleagues and we had an awefully heavy menu......lets see,,,it was kadai bhindi,vegetable korma,chillie chicken,chicken curry and salad finlly topped up with icecream....I had made the cake on xmas eve so we had a stomach saver ready when the guests started coming in...someone had bot champagne and i had my first taste of it...tasted something like sprite and everyone commented that the cake was cooked...i sincerely wished i knew how to bake it earlier so that i could have made it for junaid...he always used to ask me for homemade xmas cake....

anywise lunch was a little late as we couldnt finish off everything until it was 3 :(.......then after food,the guys hanged out in the living room while the ladies pondered in the bedroom....i guess charlie was giving his usual fundas and veeru would have been enjoying them.......i was playing with aaru all the while and i discovered that if u speak to him in english,he turns out to be a little roughish,,,,,,,hmm...should investigate out this funda with kids.......i missed out the icecream while playing with aaru......someone suggested cards and everyone pounced on it...rummy was shelled out and from the looks,none was a jack in it,,,,rak and me were left to look after the kids,,,tea was served once in between and we were damn tired by that time......but anywise everyone had a gud time and i enjoyed it a lot as it was really informal and we felt good.......

the next day,26th is called boxing day here and most of the shops here go up on 50% sale.....so we too joined the herd on early morning 6.30 the next day(yes,6.30 is now too early for us :D) but we couldnt manage to find anything ...so we came back home and had a breakfast round again...this time veeru prepared the omlettes and i watched the clip which ballu had prepared...he has done a gud job ,,making a video out of all our pics..... :D.......afternoon,we set out to reading and there we were entrusted with aaru as bhahi and charlie wanted to go for a movie and aaru wudnt sit out thru it........goosh shopping with a kid is a little hard :D........sometime in between,i met an old tamil lady and we started speaking in tamil......i was actually surprised that she could understand my tamil.......she was staying with her son and has been visitng UK every 6 months now.......she was a very sweet lady and we had a gud time until her grand daughter came to call her off.......while walking with aaru in the stroller,we got many funy glances,,,,mayb we dint look mature enuf :D.......finally after handing over aaru,we caught up with our movie-ghajini in hindi!!! i had already seen the movie but still kept guffawing at almost all the scenes......had a gud time all in all and was 12 again when we went to bed.........next day again sale day!!! this time we had to get up by 4.30 and by the time we reached the shop,it was already filled with people....people kept giving weird glances at me and rak as we were walking about lesiurely unsure of what to buy while others were busy filling out their baskets.....finally we were done with it and waited for others to come out.........we went to 2 more other shope and there we found sofas to rest upon and gladly spent our time there......here i met one more lady......pakistani this time..........she too was tired of shopping and was waiting for her sis........she was a very pleasant lady with a wise mouth and i wished that she lived somewhere nearby our house so that i could have some company here.......but alas!!!

then came home and slept for the rest of the day followed by a demo session at the end of the day to try out our shopping.........

sun was spent comfortably at home watching movies and we found this one-Slumdog millionarie a remarkably gud one........

feeling lazy now.....cant get myself to get up and do my tasks.......ok mayb till the chocolate tin.......

oo ya yes,,rak had left me some gifts under the tree,,,,,,btb need to figrue out wot mistltoe has to do with xmas...the church had loads of it.........