Family is back home

Wife & son are back from India and suddenly a house which looked so empty for last 3-4 weeks is full of excitement all over again. Aryan keeps running up and down the hall, carefully checking all his toys and happy with his reunion with them. He has hardly forgotten any of his toys or even the places where he left them, wonder how much information his small head can store. He also has lot of stories from his India stay. For the first time I heard him trying to speak in Hindi - broken at best, but still it was amazing.

First thing we both did together yesterday evening was to visit his "good" barber and have some haircut. He refused to have his hair cut in India without me for almost 2 months, which meant the barber had a lot to catch up with :-). He also took me to a cake shop and ordered his usuals, in short we had a typical couple of father-son time in the mall. All the while, we were out, he kept talking about his time in India and what all he did etc etc.. kind of a briefing I was looking forward to.

He has resumed his schools from today and was warmly welcomed by his friends as soon as he stepped on to his school bus. All of them were big smiles and so was I.. nice to see him getting integrated to his life straightway. Sometimes it is difficult for us adults to do that after a break ( like getting into office first day after a long vacation !).

Nikita is also back with her usual chores. She was busy opening all the luggage and showing me some of the new stuff she bought in India, mostly dresses for herself. Then came the turn of the papers and filing them correctly, so that we can find them next time when we search for that "missing" document. I helped as much as I could, but most of the time I was just enjoying their presence.

Lilly, our maid, her own stories from India stay and she was quick to point out the amount of dirt on the floor, kitchen ( thanks to my cleaning he he ). So she had her task cut out, to get the house back in the same shape which she left it. She was obviously happy to back to more familiar environment, India stay was definitely a different experience for her.

Its so nice to have them back, house filled with people - its just so different from staying alone. Thank GOD for blessing me with such a sweet family and loving / caring people around me - that's the biggest treasure of life.