It’s been
five years since I joined the ranks of many other moms and began blogging about
my adventures in mommyhood through books on Onestoryaday!
A lot has happened since then……. From relocating to India, transitioning from
being a stay-at-home-mom to a working mom and now back to being a stay-at-home
mom with the arrival of our second child..…life has come a full circle. If
there’s one thing that hasn’t changed ….it’s our daily reading adventures
together. As a growing kid, Abhay has a mind of his own and is not exactly
enthused by every book I pick out for him. As a growing boy, I now find him more
drawn to cricket, sports and other kinesthetic driven activities and his
interest in books slightly waning. Though, when it comes to independent reading
he may alternate between reading obsessively to not reading at all, he always
looks forward to our daily quota of shared reading together.
While we try
to religiously adhere to this bedtime activity, you can surely expect Abhay to extract
those precious fifteen to twenty minutes from our winding-up routine that in
turn transport us to different world altogether, amidst all the chaos at home
that includes the idiot box blaring prime time news and a wailing six month old!:-)
Of course,
this year has seen a big change in our household that has not only made our made
lives busier but has also turned the clock backwards in as much as having to
relearn the “Baby 101” basics and
experience those initial years of parenthood once again. Well…this could
only be a blessing for a reading/blogging mommy like me…isn’t it?? For all those recently published board books
and picture books that I wish I had come across when Abhay was little…..here’s
a second chance for me to enjoy them with my little one! For all those girlie
books that I wished I had a daughter to read to……I cant wait to read them to my
little girl!! While Abhay has in a way grown out of picture books, I am waiting
for his baby sister to grow into it! Same time last year, didn’t I mention about finding an audience in addition to my
existing one …..well..here it is!! So …long live Onestoryaday…..as I am all set
to yet again relive my childhood!!
As has been the tradition
at Onestoryaday in December every year to invite readers and parents to share their favourite
stories, books they read as a child and still loved by the child in them and so
also the current favourites of their little ones. So here’s inviting all my
readers to be a part of Onestoryaday……
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