Manisha Leaves for India

Manisha left for India yesterday to visit family and to attend the opening of her sister's & brother-in-law's hospital in Nagpur. The longest (& the only time actually!) she has been away from the kids is 2 nights, so this trip at 12 days is a record. The whole day yesterday Aseem was in a panic about her trip and kept asking questions. "So is Mommy coming back in the van with us?" "Are we going to walk back from the airport?" "Are Daddy, Supriya and I going to go back together?" I thought he was going to fall to pieces when Manisha passes the checkpoint. But he did not. All those questions he had been asking were building up the story in his mind, and the upcoming calamity was contained & put in a safe, manageable box. It was not going to be the end of the world after all.

Supriya had one bout of crying the previous night. "I am bored and I want to go somewhere fun. We never go anywhere! I want to go to India with mommy!" She was fine once she got that out of her system. She is going to be a great help to me managing Aseem.

Aseem got up in the morning today and asked, "Where is mommy?" I said, "Remember we dropped her off at the airport last night? She is on her way to India now." And he accepted that and came back to bed. He is getting to be a big boy!