100 words on Saturday Archives

19/05/201415/04/2017

A lesson, a Drabble and some innovation

This was going to be hard. Saying ‘No’ always was. For a second she considered a ‘Yes’ then gave herself a mental shake. ‘No’, it had to be. A moment later her daughter came skipping in, ‘So may I mama, please?’. ‘No,’ she said gently, trying to blunt the blow with her smile. The dreaded tears came in a deluge.

Later she watched her daughter playing happily. In teaching her a lesson she had learnt one too – that life lessons were important, tears temporary. She wished she knew then what she knew now. It would have made her decision easier.

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Linking to Write Tribe’s 100 words on Saturday for the prompt

“S/he wished S/he knew then what S/he knew now”

The Drabble will make more sense if you read yesterday’s post.

With all of that behind us we spent a near perfect day today.. Cleaning together.

There she is wrestling a cushion cover. She won with honours, I might add.

A month of being away has left the house coated in layers of dust. Seriously, how it climbs up to the 9th floor is a mystery. The maid’s on leave and I’d have probably left it as it was and waited for her (yes I’m bad like that. And I do hate housework) but we’re expecting a friend and it needed to be done.

Over lunch, N asked me if she could melt her dairy milk and re-freeze it into tiny chocolates. I had this vision of a chocolate smeared kitchen and refused rightaway. I stashed away the moulds for good measure. Later, while cleaning the fridge I spotted this…

She even found some cake sprinklers and used them

On quizzing her she said she had melted the chocolate in the sun then poured it out into medicine dispensers and topped them off with gems. Didn’t I tell you this new gen was a tad too smart?

In other news she has figured out how to use the printer all on her own. Now she can do her school projects on her own. Yay! Maybe 8 years is that magic age when kids grow up suddenly.

10/02/201415/04/2017

A wandering mind!

I had a
medical checkup recently and its report time! I’ve been putting it off, yet it’s
been on my mind .. a lot. Oh I know I’m in decent enough health, yet the
thought that something may not be just right is scary.

All day I
hear a constant stream of — “Mama I’m hungry”, “Mama may we watch TV?”, “Mama she’s
teasing me”, “Mama where are my clothes?” …. on and on.

I rarely
allow myself to think about this, but it is my secret dread – that we won’t be
around long enough to look after the kids forever.

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And now I feel all melodramatic and sad and worried. That’s what happens when you let your mind wander, all thanks to this prompt from Write tribe which asked us to ‘Write a hundred words without thinking – just free your mind!’

For a peek into more wandering minds look here here.

22/01/201415/04/2017

The treasure box

Mum, is such a spoil
sport and what an eagle eye she has! She always
appears as soon as things get interesting. “No”, “Stop”, “Don’t”.. that’s all I
hear. Tell me why would God make such fascinating things if he didn’t intend us to explore? The sand
in the garden, the electric sockets at home, the water in the bathroom pot, mums
makeup stuff – to touch, to taste, to feel – that’s what they’re for.

Today’s my chance. While mum gets that cake I’ll dive into this
shiny treasure box and see what I find.

Hah! this is will be fun.

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Linking to Write Tribe’s 100 words on Saturday for the picture prompt (above) given by the wonderful Vidya Sury. Check out her blog here.

12/01/201415/04/2017

Cold

The
icy wind, sharp as shards of glass, cut through his frayed blanket. He was no
stranger to winter on the streets. He remembered at least 10 of the 14 years of
his young life but it had never been this bad. He closed his eyes praying for
sleep.

Suddenly
… something warm against his back. He sat up abruptly, warily. Two large eyes
looked back at him, desperate, beseeching.

Strangers
in the night … they stared at each other.

Slowly,
he extended his blanket.

And
then they slept ..

curled
up together,

giving
and receiving warmth.

Strangers
no longer.

Boy and dog.

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Linking to Write Tribe’s 100 words on Saturday introduced in February 2013 on Everyday Gyaan.

This week’s prompt ‘Strangers in the night’ was given by the lovely Suzy Que.

08/01/201415/04/2017

My Little Sister

He sat sulking, eyes straying to the clock, waiting his turn at the TV. He could hear the endless Barbie movie in the next
room. Ugh! Girls! If only he had a brother instead. They would have raced cars
and watched Ben 10 forever. He would trade her any day.

Or would he?

Would the brother call him bhai as sweetly as she did? Would he
make silly faces till he laughed after mum yelled at him? Would he hold his
hand at the movies, even though he wouldn’t admit he was scared?

Nope! He wasn’t letting her go, ever!

Linking to Write Tribe’s 100 words on Saturday for the prompt ‘My little sister’.