Rain fury

It is the calm after the storm. The kids are at home enjoying their rain vacation and little adult games, pretending to be parents and picking and dropping their kids (dolls) from school. As always, Mira is the director of these plays while Ash understands and follows the rules of the game implicitly. Some day, they might become good actors :) And Mira is already beginning to imitate us adults in the house, especially the maid. Which means the maid has realised that she has to be careful around them.
Mira thinks that me and V are a brother-sister pair. We are trying to make her understand we both came from two different houses, and were unknown and unrelated till we got married. So she tells Ash now that they both will get a brother-sister pair from another house to marry.
A trip to a painting exhibition cum sale last week has given Ash ideas. Today he was seen drawing a picture for which he quoted a price of Rs. 15 lakh. When I told him I didnt want anything so expensive, he promptly came up with another that was just Rs. 30!
Mira stood third in the inter-church (from 11 Orthodox churches in Chennai) singing competition for junior girls. She didnt look like she had much chance as her song was too short. While the win has not meant anything to her, it makes me happy that she has the opportunity and desire to participate. The kids' confidence and lack of inhibitions are not things we were used to when growing up.

This post is just a summary of events I could think of.