All about family - where the extended becomes the included

Come Friday and I don't want it to come!! Before the weekend begins I am already planning how to stuff it with all the pending things. By Saturday afternoon I finished about 10% of the work and suddenly I remembered Bala's cousin's husband was on his way.

He wanted to meet two more cousins and Bala's mami too. It was easier to meet at one place. All of them arrived and plans for having dinner in a restaurant surfaced. Of late we are very hesitant to go out for dinner 'cos both kids become cranky and managing them becomes a huge task, leaving us no enthu for social talk. But all cousins and Mami were too geared up to go out and kept insisting we are all there to take care of sundu and hari. Hari had three more people to pose his questions. He was excited to get answers which are much different from the usual... "you talk too much" or "thats not for you" or "okay I am your mom, so do as I say" or "ENOUGH" as finale.

It was so good to manage the kids with all of them to help that we ended up staying awake as late as 11 pm... (its very late for me 'cos I go to sleep at 9 pm)

Till a year ago I had not moved close with any of them, as is the case with most of the extended family. Over the past few months, its beautiful to see that the extended have become the included!

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Laksh said…
By the sounds of it, you guys had a good time. Yet to talk to Kannan so no idea what he did Sunday :)
2/2/09 6:58 PM
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