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A first today

Today was the first time, Siddharth was in school all by himself for three hours. It wasn't actually long for me, but too long for Laks who was almost in tears when we left him inside the play-school and escaped before he could realize that we are gone. Unfortunately, he knew it within a minute and rushed to the gate crying. But, we had to keep our hearts tough and turn back as he has to get used to it. Its already been a enough of play-schooling for Laks, as she was with him there for a week.

Laks kept calling the mobile of the lady who takes care of Sid there, but unluckily, the mobile was never picked. Later, we understood that he had stopped crying in a while and has gone to play with the kids. Again, he has spilt his snacks from the box and has eaten from another child. Since he was doing it last week, we decided to send him what the other child brought. But, that child also changed the snack and Sid was attracted to the new snack yet again. Now, I understand why some big branded schools don't allow snacks from home and provide their own stuff to all children. Later, we learnt that he has enjoyed his day there and the irony is that he wasn't willing to come back home when Laks went to pick him up at 12 noon. It seems, he was so engrossed in playing outdoors and even bid a bye to her as he wanted to continue playing with the kids.

I just couldn't imagine that Sid has grown up so much that he has started to go to a play-school. The nurse holding him and me seeing him for the first time is still fresh in my minds and its been more than 25 months since. Time flies, but with Sid, time rockets even faster.

Proof of Marriage

If you people remember that I was married again earlier this month, here's the proof.

Any of you reading this want to check if your wedding has an online presence, try this page belonging to the registration department. But, I already know a friend who's marriage isn't getting listed there for some reason known to no one. Ironically, he was the one who showed me this website.

Got married again!

It has been 3 years and 210 days since I got married for the first time in this life. It has been great to live with my first wife and my life has completely changed for the better. We even have a son who is just more than a year old who has further illuminated our lives. But, we both decided that we have had enough and wanted to re-marry and I didn't trust Feb 2, 2006 would be the date for it. What a surprise? It happened today. Yes, we got married again today officially at the registrar's office. My son has had the privilege to witness his parents' wedding.

It was partly my mistake too as I never bothered about getting my marriage registered, though it happened with consent from all sides. It was about 2 years after my marriage that I realised that I should register it for various reasons. Knowing our government office formalities and also concerned about the delay, I was wondering how to go about it. I was very careful as I didn't have proper address-proof documents too. But, to my delight, there was someone (a close relative), who offered help and said that he can get it done in no time through his contacts. So, we filled up the form and attached our wedding invitation and even a photograph. I, honestly, don't remember when was this as it was long long ago, so long ago, nobody knows how long ago. After that I have been asking my wife to follow it up with that relative (obviously related to her) and have been hearing 'very soon' 'very soon' for a long time. As I took more than 2 years, he also took his own sweet time and finally made it to happen today and I certainly owe a big thanks to that relative. Right now, I have to go to that office again this evening to collect the marriage certificate.

We got married, lived happily, were blessed with a son, got re-married and hope to live happily forever.

Personally, I am a believer in a home-maker wife/mom. I happened to come across this post by an ex-lawyer which spoke about leaving the child with a baby-sitter and the mom going to work. I enjoyed reading it as she had described every detail extremely well. But, what hurt me was when she looked upon herself as a (mere?) baby-sitter instead of a mom, by saying...

I strongly feel that however good the baby-sitter is, he/she cannot be a mom. I am not blaming moms who go to work as there would be several reasons and justifications for their respective cases. Most cases, it may turn out to be money and in some cases the woman feeling empty by sitting at home. But, I feel (you agree or not) that children who have a working mom miss something invaluable in life. I agree with grown-ups, but when they are less than 8-9 years old, the mom is very essential. These are exactly what I wanted to convey with my comments to Sujatha's post. I don't know as to how she took my views. I was extremely lucky to have a home-maker mom. I am not a male chauvinist and you can check with my wife on that. Most luckily for me, my wife agrees with me in this issue and she is a perfect home-maker and spends all her time with our almost 10-month old son - Thanks Laks !

I have read somewhere that God made moms as he cannot be there with everyone all the time. Incase, if any of you happen to email or call or write a letter or sms him, please convey that he now needs to look for better alternatives as all moms are not able to replace his role in their child's life.