The unusual in the usual!

Every morning starts with the same lazy to wake up attitude,followed by filter coffee and then RUNN!!!!! The clock is ticking, the little one is reluctant to wake up to go to school, needs cajoling, refuses milk etc etc. Father in law back after his morning walk and mother in law trying her level best to balance everything under the roof right from the kitchen to the kins. Husband’s trying his level best to try to be of some help but corporate issues like a missing towel and papers render the required sugar and spice to the already eventful morning. Finally after blinking to my best, I go for my bath and prepare my little one’s snack and bag and run behind him to stuff his breakfast.But by 9:30 after packing off hubby and kiddo, the house seems so silent and I start feeling jobless. Welcome to my simple, uncomplicated and common world. An engineer by education, I chose to embrace the living of a middle class homemaker over a 9 to 6 software company job. The transition was not that easy nor was there any impetus from the so called career oriented kith and kin  but this is what is me and now coming to the unusual part…….My identity does not end here nor do the things that I can do or share. Hope to share what ever I know and express what ever I can.

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