Long weekend ahead


It is a long weekend for some of us, and we decided to head to Pune to meet ‘The Grandparents’! The brat has a holiday tomorrow and the husband offered to take a day off, so off we go to spend the next couple of days in Pune.

The brat is quite excited with all this. We haven’t travelled in a long time now, with my pregnancy and a new born. The hiatus only adds to the excitement. She kept trying to reason with me, why we SHOULD leave tonight and not tomorrow morning. She helped me with the packing. She packed all her clothes and her brother’s clothes herself. All Sid’s ‘good’ clothes were infact, kept aside this morning as those were to be worn to show-off to the grandparents! The poor guy was left with hardly two sets of pajamas to live in all day today!

Once the clothes were packed, it was now turn to pack toys and books for the stay there. It was then that I got a call and had to spend precisely 2 minutes and 43 seconds on the phone and I come back to find half the bookrack emptied into a bag! Well! Little Miss Helpful was only packing! But that meant about ½ an hour of convincing as to why we don’t need SO MANY books for just two nights (the brat is an avid reader. She cannot fall asleep without reading atleast half-a-dozen books every night) and another ½ an hour of putting those books back in place.
 

So off we go! Happy weekend!

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