Its a son!!!

Oh five years of marriage seems to have gone by so fast.. and yes now we are the proud parents of two children. Kanishk came into our lives on the 2ns of February 2009. Yes had he happened just 10 days early he would have been the best gift i could give koushik, nevertheless 10 days belated is ok.

until he was in there in my womb i had no idea of how things would change after he would lann.there were a lot of issues to be taken care of . managing time at home , taking care of my health once again - of course mom was there for this, getting back to a normal schedule managing Kavya's time to go to school and the list followed - the topmost in it being managing Kavya's sentiments.

ever since I had conceived we kept telling her that she is soon going to have company rigt ere at home. someone with whom she could share her toys se could play at home, someone who would be her own brotherr or sister. but inspite of all the Gyan we gave her for nine months when Kanishk was right there the first thing Kavya said when she saw himm in the hospital was ' yeh to baat hi nahi karta' . her idea of her own sibling was a walky talky doll. and so she was disappointed to see a someone who ws so small who just would not respond to anything and whenever she would come close any one and everyone would say " kavya careful woh chota hai'.

guess it was getting a bit too much for her and the firt few days went in questions like 'tum mujhe paar nahi karoge'. sab use hi pyaar karte hai'. ho it wasw a tough time telling her that we love her as much , it was just that he needed more importance now. But then even she was a kid so --- difficult.

We have been married for five years now!!!!!

Time flies fast. Today we have completed five years of togetherness and 7 years of knowing each other. Each passing day of life has been better than the earlier and happier for me. I am sure that I will have a lot more years which would be more wonderful and great. I wish to give you a unique present on this day. This is a run through of our lives over the past 7 years. I know it is a funny gift. I know I really do not need to write all this to you because you have a phenomenal memory. But I still wish to present to you this gift so that whenever you read through this ever in your life u will remember how wonderful life had been for us. I also entrust you an additional responsibility on this day. I want you to make this blog more memorable and beautiful by continuing and updating it with all the events in our life that are to come. So that down the years we know how beautiful our life has been. I love u dear.

Just a regular life

Now the next event was Kavya’s 3rd b’day in the new house. We both had enjoyed every bit of kavya growing up as we both enjoyed parenthood. This time it was fune celebrating her birthday too as we had it in our own house. It gives immense satisfaction. Her birthday went off well. My regular visits to the doctor were on. We were all expecting the good news in February 2009. Koushik was a bit scared this time, I wonder why? He was a bit too protective about my pregnancy. He assured that I was careful and did not strain myself too much

A full House

Now our house was full of people and we were four generations in the family. When we shifted to the new house we were the first official residents to be staying there. Soon people followed and there were a lot of people In the society. We were looked up as a very unique family with four generations staying together.
I had always loved to live in a joint family and so it was quite thrilling for me. Of course there was not much need for me to adjust with anyone as I was out of the house most of the time.
In the meanwhile since kavya was 2.6 years old I kept telling Koushik that it was time we planned a second kid. He was not quite ok with the idea as he thought we were not still financially settled for a second kid because that again meant a lot of expenses. So he would just not get convinced. Also with me I wanted to have the second kid before I completed 30 as I always believed that after 30 there are generally some or the other complications.
Kavya was known to be our lucky charm and she also proved to be lucky for her dad as he got his first trip abroad. of course it meant that I would have to stay without him for a month. He had a good time in Sweden and it was quite a good experience. He came back o the 25th of April.
When he came back and we visited Mithil and Swapna she was expecting her baby. When we came back home I wonder what happened to him suddenly he decided that we too should go in for our second baby. I jumped at the thought and just that God was very kind to us I conceived the very next month. We were both very happy with it and so were all at home. Bu now grandparents who had moved into Pune had also made themselves comfortable.
So now we had to take some extra care as I was expecting my second baby. It all felt so good. Also Kavyas School was to begin in the month of June and we were all looking forward to her first day of school. She was already going to a play group and she had created a mess when she went there. So we were all quite sure that things were not going to be better in her new school. Fortunately unlike all of us thought she did not throw tantrums and she went happily. When oushik first left her to school I remember the tears in his eyes as he knew his daughter was growing up. We started slowly buying things for our new house and started making it more beautiful. Kavya was also excited about the news of the second baby coming into the house

Shifting to our home!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We made our lives really from scratch. We ahd barely anything when we got married . but now we ahd two houses to call ours. Thanks to our parents and their blessings we had quite settled in life. December was around and it was time for us to shift to our new house. When we initially talked to the builder he said that he would not be able to give the house before January. We st on his head and saw to it that we got the hosue in December. Koushik wanted to celebrate the new year there.
Due to all our coaxing we managed to get the house on the 27th of December and then we shifted there. that year new year was fun as it was in our house. And we had a bonfire and a reall good new year. It is surprising that I had been living at dads place for 24 years in my life. But the hosue I would associate as my house was the one koushik and I had dreamt and bought. That is our house.
Mom was back too and in for a surprise as we shifted when she was not there. When she had to come into the new house it was a great experience and feeling for her as well . she was so proud of her children that they had bought their own house.
The only worry was the family in Bharuch . dad grandpa and grandma were there in bharuch. Mom kept telling them to come and stay with us in Pune as there was not much in bharuch for them to do. It was very difficult to convince dad as he thought that it was not a great idea having his parents to be staying with us. But some how he got convinced and the entire family moved to Pune in March 2008.

Family together

Mom didn’t like the idea of leaving kavya with the aunty upstairs. When ever she would come Kavya would not stay with her but want to go to auntys house. So mom started contemplating on leaving everything in Bharuch and then coming with us in Pune. In Jan 2007 mom and dad also moved to their new rather their own house in Bharuch. Also since dads parent were getting old they decided to move in with mom and dad to Bharuch. So they too sold all their property in Maras and went and stayed in Bharuch. Now it was a ncie big family in Bharuch. Nut mom decided and said that she wanted to give my daughter good upbringing so in March 2007 she decided to come to Pune as well. So now it was a more secure feeling for me as I didn’t have to worry when I left for work asn I know Kavya was now with her Grandparents who would take very good care of her. Also life became a lot easier for me as it was less stressful now. Life kept moving. Our career graphs also became better. We were also able to support our parents well now.
Kavya turned 2 in September in 2007. Time was passing so fast .We were now a complete family. It was all fun. Moresoever because mom was with us. I loved her and the house used to feel so complete because of her. In November 2007 kavyas forms were to be filled for her school admissions. It just seemed yesterday that we got married and we had to now think of our family and our daughters education. This suddenly felt us feel so big and grown up. We filled the forms and the results wer to be out in the end of November. She was lucky that she got admissions in the school that I wanted her to go. So it was a big relief for us as we would not have to worry for the next 13 years atleast.In the month of October we had a pooja for the new house. It felt so great that we had the pooja for our house and koushik and I sat through the Pooja

Moving towards a career

I never had looked for a job in all these days. I was a content housewife. But my in laws always felt that I should do something. When Kavya was around 10 months old there was a job offer that my brother suggested(koustubh). It was tempting as the profile was different and not the regular 9-6 jobs. Also bu now kavya had become the daughter of the building. There was this family who stayed upstairs and who were very fond of her. She would stay with them most of the time. So when this job offer came my way I asked that aunty if she would take care of Kavya and she willingly accepted the offer.
I also began to work and had the regular life that any working woman would have. Of course it was quite punishing to leave her and go to work. But since I did not have late evenings and all it was quite ok. Kavya turned a year old in September. Her first birthday was real fun. We had it the traditional way and Kavya enjoyed it too.it also \had a celebration with her friends in the evening. Though not a very big party we had a good amount of children who had fun in her birthday. In October Koushik also got a good offer in some other company in Pune and he too changed his job. So once again Kavya seemed to be our lucky charm. We were a lot settled and I now felt we needed a house in Pune. I had started my house hunt in Pune. Of course Koushik was not very much ok with the idea as we had already bought a house in Bharuch . But I felt that we needed a house in Pune. So with a lot of convincing and thanks to Mithil we booked our house in Pune.
It is so exiting when you buy your first house. We both were all excited about it. Earlier our weekend outings used to be going places but once the house was booked the only outing that we had was MAnjiri greens. No other outing seemed as beautiful.

Proud parents

We named our bundle of joy Kavya. I was in bharuch for a month and a half and then it was time to go back to my home to Pune. She was a lovely kid. I came to Pune and started enjoying motherhood and every bit of it. Each day when Koushik would come back from work I would tell him what new she had done that day. I would also call up his parents and tell them how beautiful she was and what her activities were. Like any other parent our life also started revolving around this little doll. Time flew and she was about 5 months when we went to Bharuch. We always rather koushik always wanted to buy a house in Bharuch. We had seen a couple of places. Koushik never liked to stay in a flat and wanted to buy a row house. There was this society we had seen and finally we booked toe house too. His mother was really happy as she always wanted to stay in her own house. The house was booked.

Our Bundle of joy

Exams were over. The results were out. I was now a qualified chartered accountant. The bigger result in our lives was still to come. Now I was so attached to Koushik I had no friends or anything. He had become my friend philosopher and my world in the past year and half. So ididnt wast to stay without him for long when I would go for my delivery,. Since I did not have my mom I was to go to Bharuch for my delivery. How I missed having my mother as I knew she would have been more than happy to see me so happy in my married life. Then I decided to go to bharuch on the 25th of September. I left and reached on the 25th morning. Went to the doctor for the check up and the doctor said there was still some more time. But on the 27th I got some false pains and asked koushik to leave from Pune. I always wanted him to be there in the labour room while I would deliver. So he left on the 28th morning even though his job was at stake as he had left without completing his month end closing. He reached on a Thursday and the maximum he could wait was until Sunday night. The same day when we went to the doctor for a sonography the doctor said that there I would deliver no way before the 7th of October. I didn’t want him to go back without beingthere for the delivery and all my prayers seemed to work. The same evening I started getting pains. I kept telling all that there were pains but all told me that it was fine and that was how it would be . but towards noht it became vry severe and at 2.30 am mom came out and said it was high time I was taken to the hospital. The moment I was there the nurse said the baby was ready to come out. I always wanted a daughter and was praying that the little one in there was a girl . we reached at 2.45 and at 3.05 am. There was a lovely sound of a baby crying . it was a girl. There was no end to my happiness. It was a pleasure to see my daughter.

Home sweet home

U can never get over the place where one has spent the entire life time. for me there was no place better than Pune in the whole. Who ever knew that we would move to Pune someday? When we were in Baroda Koushik got a call offer in Pune with a good company. When he came back from the interview he was so happy that it went off well. All my hopes seemed to be so much in my favour. He got the offer letter as well. It was time to change once again. Before we both shifted to Pune I went and stayed at my dads place and did some house hunting and fixed the place we would be staying in close to his office. I was so sue to the idea of him coming home for lunch each day so I wanted a house close to his office in Pune and did manage to get a good one. I went back to Baroda and did all the packing and then we moved to Pune.
Life just seemed to be getting better and better. Now we were a lot more settled and happy. From the first job that koushik was in where we needed to take money from his parents we had now become independent and were able to give his parents money each month. We had got financially quite sound. Also now in Pune I felt so comfortable. We moved to Pune in June. July was my CA results and to all my good luck and the institute’s kindness I cleared the CA attempt. Not only I but also karthik cleared the CA exams. Of course more credit was given to the baby who was going to be there in the world soon. The baby was to be the lucky charm.

Life gets to be really beautiful!!!

Baroda seemed so lucky and good for us. We had a wonderful house. Nice neighbours and I too got really serious about my attempt. I joined classed in baroda. I got good friends as well. His job was also quite good. The house we stayed also ws wonderful. The best part in all this was that we were quite close to Bharuch so mom and dad could come here more often and also we could run to bharuch more frequently. It was just a one hours drive. Koushuk would come home for lunch daily. So I used to cook good food for him as well . of course his schedule was quite erratic here as he would have a lot of late nights but even then somehow it all never pinched much. We both were so happy here in Baroda. We both always loved kids and wanted a kid soon after we got married. But till then nothing had happened. My friends used to make fun of me that I would have a kid the 9th month of my wedding. But when we were in Baroda probably god thought it was the right time to bless use with a baby. I remember in January I had my last cycle. In the month of February when I was due for my cycle it did not start on date. Since I was very regular so I got myself checked at home. But to my disappointment the first time I checked it was negative. I did not tell koushik about all this .I wanted to first confirm and then blow the trumpet. Then of 15th of Feb I got myself checked and then told him that evening. There was no extent to how happy he was. I also had to tell all my folks and his parents that there was a new member who would soon get added to the family tree. I ran down to the STD and told all my dear and near ones. I remember when I told his mom about it she jumped at it and just could not believe it. His grandfather was also there then in Bharuch. They were all so excited about it that I told them at 4 in the evening and they were all home at 8 in the night. It felt so good. I too felt so good about it. The initial celebration got over. But now I got a bit scared about my. I knew that if I did not clear this attempt I would not be able to clear ever as in the next attempt I would have a baby and then it would be impossible for me. It was a do or die situation for me and probably I took it so seriously. I would attend classed so regularly. Study day in and day out with more of concentration. Mom and dad would frequent Baroda every weekend or we would go there. Sometimes I would drive to Bharuch all by myself and give them surprises. Life just seemed to be getting so beautiful and everything was falling in place. I gave my attempt in Baroda

Our first time of Independence

Koushik got a job in Ahmedabad and we had to move out of Bharuch. This would mean that now we would have to live a life by ourselves. Just the two of us. We rented a house in Ahmedabad. It used to be fun there. We had only one vehicle so I used to leave him to office everyday and then go for a house hunt. Till we got a house there we were staying at a friends place. We got a house and shifted there. It was a nice house. So I used to leave him for work eacn dday and then go to pick him up in the evenings. I was also studying for another attempt. Koushik had by now given up hopes of me qualifying as in each attempt I seemed to perform worse that the earlier. The job that he was in was somehow not vey satisfying and he seemed unhappy in it. He had to get out of there as soon as he could. Also we did not like the place much. Like a blessing in disguise he got a job offer in Baroda. It was too good and he was getting a great jump and hike. It was too difficult for him to believe that he was so lucky as he always believed that he had unlucky stars. I remember even when he had got selected in the interview and all was final he was so unsure because he thought that he would probably get unqualified in the medical test. But nothing like that happened and he got through the interview well. Now it was time to move to Baroda. Ahmedabad was not very good for us but as far as my CA was concerned it seemed to be a bit lucky place as I cleared one group.

A new beginning

Life changes for every girl after her wedding. She has to get adjusted to an entire new world.New people and all. Soon after our wedding was over we went to Karvar for our Honeymoon. It was a beautiful place. We were back by the 4th of Feb as he had to join office as it was his new job. Then I came to Pune for a week and then I had to go back for good. This time when I came to Pune it was quite saddening as I knew that now I could not come as and when I please. Also I knew that dad would be alone now. I went back from Pune and had to start a family. We ahd a separate house as my in laws thought that we needed our independence. But it was all in vain as I would go to their house as soon as Koushik would leave for work. Then I would come back in the evening when he would pick me up from work after office. We would also stay there over the weekends. We spent most of our time in his parents’ house. His brother also used to be there then . he was a total fun loved person and it used to be fun with him around. And the best was that now we both ( I and his brother) had to complete our CA together. Life went on well. I kept studying … atleast that is what I claimed for my exams. But I did not clear the attempt that May as well. But now I could say that I had a lot of responsibilities (not that I had really any) and so it was difficult to clear my attempt. Time kept flying and now it was time for us to move out of Bharuch.