My Views and Ideas: Life and Parenting

whenever we drive to a place my elder daughter  "T" always finds some thing interesting to talk about and at times the conversation reaches to a very profound conclusion and some times the topic turns out to be very humorous. She has always been fascinated by having her own house.Some times I think I am the one who ingrained this idea in her brain because right now we live in an apartment and  I always wanted to have my own place no matter how small it is.So every time she will become excited by looking at some one's backyard with small slides or swing or such kid's play item she will ask me why she cant have those things.Every time my response will be that since we live in an apartment and we do not have much space we cant have those things.I am writing this as the story line is based on the fact that my daughter also  wants  to have  our own house where she will have freedom of space to use. Most of the time just when I am about to clean my sink full of ...

These days "T's " school is closed for summer vacation so she wakes up late compared to school days when she would get up at 6:30 in the morning.When the summer holidays started I thought we will have lots of time to do lots of thing together,set my routine  of exercise and eat on time   but  nothing like that happened.Now I feel I have less time than I had before.She wakes up at 8:00 am and goes to bed at around 8:30pm.So that means ideally we get roughly 12 hours after eating and other mundane chores apart from taking care of my younger daughter.In these hours we have to fit in three meals,two milk time, snack time ,some time in the park,some reading writing practice ,a bed time story and some arts and crafts activity. And these 12 hours are just not enough for every thing. of course some times we skip going to park ,some  times skip reading writing practice  and on some days we  end up not doing anything.Even then it feels like time...