Preeti Shenoy's Blog, page 92

Heavenly stuff! Apple crumble topped with Vanilla custard sauce

Like I mentioned in my previous post, the children are having their hols and TV is a BIG no-no in our household. (I do not watch TV myself) So naturally the onus of keeping kids creatively occupied, falls on me as I am the stay-at-home parent. There are many things that one can do to make good use of time instead of parking them in front of an X-box or TV.

 Cooking is a great way to keep kids

The making of Mr.Moshi:)

The Diwali vacations are on for my children and this morning  my daughter wanted me to do something fun with her. I never say a no for doing anything creative and we made Mr.Moshi (a key chain buddy)  today!

This is how we did it.





















You need felt cloth, key ring,yarn and polyfibre stuffing. (Ours came in a kit but you can easily buy all of it in a craft store)





Next we

What it takes to write a book.

Sometime back I had put this as a status update on my Facebook page






It
takes two years and months and months of research and hours of
writing, re writing and writing and editing to produce a book. And then
there are people who read it and TRASH it in a few seconds without even
having written one measly article for a newspaper, let alone a book
themselves! And they hide under the

Box that up!

Image from photobucket



Sometimes there is only that much you can do about a particular situation in your life.(am not talking about issues related to health or fitness here)



You might have tried your best to resolve the problem. If it involves a person (and most problems sooner or later do!), you might have tried your best to reason with them, cajole them, persuade them to make them see

The best pickle giver in the world

This morning it was a hurriedly mad rush. I am single parenting as Satish is abroad. Two children( that too one a teen and one a pre-teen!) and a large dog, plus a home to handle, apart from my writing (on a tight deadline for my third book! Details soon!) does at times  does make me want  to run away to Santorini (with some nice looking Greek God) and never ever come back.

But even in the  [image error]

Here is to you!

Photo of Satish and me clicked by my son on a day that I achieved something that meant the world to me.



Whatever brought you to where you are today did not come about by chance. You rose because of the decisions you made. You might have made a few choices which seemed absurdly silly and foolish  in retrospect. There might have been things that went out of your control no matter how much you

A post card story from Mc.Leod Ganj

Outside my window, right now there is the sound of crickets and a myriad other insects, chirping in disarrayed harmony, yet blending together to create  sounds that soothe the soul, fascinate the mind and  makes you pause and listen as you suspend whatever you are doing, putting everything on hold to just listen. And that is precisely what I am doing right now as I pause from my typing.

Delhi boy and Mallu gerl

One thing that I find it hard to explain to people is that I am NOT a Mallu
even though both my parents were born and raised in Kerala . My mother tongue is
Konkani and I speak it fluently.  (and if
you really want to know, I am  a  Konkani GSB).
But I also speak Tamil, Malayalam,Hindi, Kannada and can understand Marathi and
used to speak Gujju too! (apart from English of course) :)
I grew up in

Life is what you make it- a few facts

 Thanks to a reader Nikhil Muralidharan who clicked this photo and shared this with me on my FB page.
I loved this pic.

'Life is what you make it' was declared a National best-seller in the second month of its release. It has now gone into seventh impression. It has been consistently topping the Hindustan Times top ten best selling fiction list. It has appeared on India today top twenty

Are you looking at a closed door?

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we took so
long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened
up for us"                                         

                    - Helen Keller









Hellen Keller sure knows what she was talking about. She was born deaf mute and blind. Hers is a truly inspiring story and if you haven't heard of her