Self care and Life skills

 Self care and life skills are as important as academics, keeping themselves clean, listening to their needs and also being independent. When taught at right age, they begin to take care of themselves before emotions get in their way.

We felt that he can do it on his own, so slowly made him to trim his nails with guidance. He enjoyed doing it and feels independent.

Each family and Child is different so do share what are the new things your child started doing all alone now ❤️

Chief Guest for a Badminton Tournament

I was invited as a chief guest by my childhood friend Arun for a Badminton Tournament which happened today at 21.B Badminton Academy, Vyasarpadi. We both discussed over phone about the event and came to know that the participants in the tournament are not professional players. There were 24 teams under the category A, B, C and D(6 teams in each category), 48 members in total.

I want to share a few things which I observed in the tournament.  Some members enrolled themselves in the academy to have some physical activity for themselves and some have enrolled to follow their passion. Many have mastered the game(It's cool, if we follow our passion we can master it with ease). Either way they have a good mental health, they seem fit and happy. I visualised socialising, appreciating, motivating and cheering each other inside the venue - thats amazing right 😍 When we have any regular physical activity for ourselves we tend to have an excellent mental health which results in keeping ourselves, our family and friends happy which means our society is happy. This is a small give back to our society from our side 😀

I delivered a small speech and handled over the bat and the trophy to the winner team. Mr. Arun Kumar(Founder - Blue Whale Technology, Pallavan Salai, Thiru Vi Ka Nagar) and Mr. Aarif teamed up and bagged the first place in the tournament.

Visiting people and learning more about them makes me happy. I get most of my inspiration and motivation when I meet people.

What's your recent inspiration? Do share with me in the comment box❣️

My Little Mechanic 👩‍🚀

I don't know why Almind is so obsessed with screw drivers, Allen keys and other mechanical items. Right from one and half years when he started to walk, he picks up those items and starts dismantling his toys, chairs and furnitures at home 👩‍🚀

 Though we bought him all types of kids mechanic sets he ends up using real ones.

And whenever carpenter/plumber/electrician visits our home for repair work, he won't leave the place until they finish off the work, he loves watching them 😍

Off-late insisting him constantly he stopped dismantling (but it took long years to change him). 

Happy that now he is trying to construct and build new things but I always keep an eye on him   ❤️

**About the video - I'm observing him from the morning, he is using all tools in that box 

Easter food - Strictly for food lovers ❤️

 This Easter i didn't cook or bake anything at home. 

Morning : Fruits & buttermilk

Afternoon : Lunch at in laws place. My mil cooked Chicken briyani, Chicken 65, Onion Raita and Payasam

I bought some baked goodies from http://theweekendcakesmith.com/ 

These are the delicacies i got from Mr Daniel, Founder of Weekend Cakesmith

Caramelized onion pie , Cinnamon Apple pie , Banana walnut bread  and Mixed berry tarts.

 

How can we wind off the Easter without Easter eggs. got these eggs and cake pops from Ajanta Bakers, Perambur.

Which one is your favorite? Also let me know what's your sunday special in comments section.

Nethra Art Studio - Product Review

Uma Viswesh is the Founder of Nethra Art Studio. I know Uma since 5 years. She is an artistic and creative women. 5 years before when we planned to gift Almind's playschool teachers, Uma said that she will make a customised handmade doll gift for them. It was a cute miniature doll of a boy and a girl with the textual wish "Thank you for helping me grow". It was the first time i saw the magic in her hand. I was waiting for the right occasion to get something from her art studio❣️


Once after attending my friend's daughter's Salangai Pooja, i was mesmerised by the performance of her and her team. I wanted to gift her something special, i remembered Uma and sent her few pics of the dance performance. As promised she delivered the doll on time and to my surprise she replicated the exact dance costume. 💙






And for my friend, she made a gift doll depicting their family. That was the cutest gift. I'm attaching the pic below. Speciality of this gift is my friend's family always wear a family dress code and this gift perfectly matched their family. 💛





Someday later when i was browsing my FB, I saw a doll girl holding diya in her FB page, i wanted to buy one for me. I got a set of the doll(purple color💜) for me. When i received it, it added extra cuteness to my place and also the dolls were sturdy. So, i ordered two more sets for my sister(Red color ❤️) and my mom(Blue Color 💙). I used it for Karthigai Deepam and those were the piece of attraction among all diyas.





For my son i wanted to gift him something special, I wanted a showpiece for his study table, which would motivate him whenever he sees it. I told Uma about my idea and his interest ❣️ She patiently listened to my requirement and made a gift which was exactly as i expected.







This is our family 😀 Yeah we too follow family dress code ❤️ and we have our name etched in the gift 😎





Forgot to mention about the gifts which her daughter Vibha gifted me when she completed her schooling in our school

She has amazing collections in her facebook page "Nethra art studio". Do check out her page if you are looking for customized handmade gifts ❤️