15 Marbles

… of blogging or at least pretending to 🙂

I realised today is the last day of February.. how did that happen? I feel like the days are dragging on but the months are flying by.

The girls are well settled at their respective schools and the routine monitoring continues. They are still testing twice a week and so far the tests have been negative.

Oh one Sunday we did get a positive test and isolated immediately. But we also decided to get PCR done within 12 hours, as there were no symptoms at all. Guess what? The PCR came back negative and we were approved to leave Iso. Isolation, even if for 2 days was an experience in itself- one that I don’t wish to relive again.

In other news, I turned another year older and this year, I asked for a nice day out and some plants for my birthday present. Oh and a nice massage 😃 Here’s my favourite one from the lot 💕

How has 2022 been for you, so far? If you are reading this, do leave me a comment:)

Cheers, Trish

MrMowgli turned 5 on 1st of February! We treated him to some low-fat pup cakes from a newly discovered dog cake baker. Low fat because he was diagnosed with pancreatitis early last year and that made him very sick – since then he is on a vet prescribed diet. But everyone deserves a treat for their birthday 😃

I may sound biased but I think he is the cutest golden retriever ever 🙂 He understands ‘Walk’ in both Hindi and English and now even springs to attention if we spell it out as W-A-L-K 😃 He is so smart, yet, he thinks a little safety gate needs to be respected and not knocked over. He is big enough to jump over it but he sits behind it and calls out .. oh my heart.. isn’t he the cutest ?!

He still checks on the girls each night, but here’s the funny thing. He waits to be invited into MsA’s room, but strolls right into MsAn’s. When he is sleeping on our bed, SP asks him nicely to move, he just looks at him lovingly and wags his tail.. I don’t even have to be looking at him and just say the words – “off the bed” and he jumps off and sighs at me 😃

Presenting the beautiful boy that rules our hearts and home 😍

This milestone had to be recorded 🙂

The girls are back at school for Face-to-Face learning – the last regular year of regular school was 2019. Seems almost surreal, but we know it’s real. We lived through the fear and panic of COVID-19, the crippling isolation of lockdowns shortage of essential goods and much more.

Testing twice a week for regular monitoring is the way forward and the first time we did the test, we were all holding our breaths- the girls took turns being human timers for each other. But negative test results meant that they were able to start school on their designated days.

Here’s hoping and praying for a full year of regular school for my kids and all the kids across the globe.