My father and his brothers and the extended family had gathered at my uncle's place to pray for my uncle's soul to rest in peace.
While the priests were performing the rituals and chanting the mantras, we all cousins used it as an opportunity to sit in the adjoining room to catch up.
We started talking about our kids and how it is impacting us and difference between how we were and how they are...
My sister complained that my niece seldom writes down the homework, even if she has noted the homework to-do, she leaves behind the respective book back in school. Just does not want to own up her school work and do it herself..
Not to be left behind, my cousin's wife mentioned that her daughter had lost the diary in which she had to note down her daily homework.
And we were discussing the laughs, rants, cries of our children. My aunt came in excitedly and said... hey do you know what Manya said? (Manya, is the latest entrant into my big, fun-loving, awesome family. She is all of 2 years old). We asked enthusiastically, "What?"
Aunt apparently asked Manya, "Manya dear, what do you call your father - annu (in my mother tongue, konkani) or Daddy?".
Pat came Manya's reply, "I call him Sunder" (is her dad's name)
All of us were ROFL
While the priests were performing the rituals and chanting the mantras, we all cousins used it as an opportunity to sit in the adjoining room to catch up.
We started talking about our kids and how it is impacting us and difference between how we were and how they are...
My sister complained that my niece seldom writes down the homework, even if she has noted the homework to-do, she leaves behind the respective book back in school. Just does not want to own up her school work and do it herself..
Not to be left behind, my cousin's wife mentioned that her daughter had lost the diary in which she had to note down her daily homework.
And we were discussing the laughs, rants, cries of our children. My aunt came in excitedly and said... hey do you know what Manya said? (Manya, is the latest entrant into my big, fun-loving, awesome family. She is all of 2 years old). We asked enthusiastically, "What?"
Aunt apparently asked Manya, "Manya dear, what do you call your father - annu (in my mother tongue, konkani) or Daddy?".
Pat came Manya's reply, "I call him Sunder" (is her dad's name)
All of us were ROFL
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