Amita Nene's Yummy Expressions
Baked
Greens n Egg Casserole.....My power packed meal
Time
simply flew! My little babies completed a decade in this world last month. From
being mommy’s cute little darlings, they have transformed into a handful pair
of tweens filled to the brim with enthusiasm, action, emotions and
restlessness. Kids grew up fast and the scope of creations in the kitchen
evolved and widened to suit palates and nutritional needs.
Pre-teens
or Preadolescence is a period of lot of internal conflict for children, I have
come to realise. The want to go the extra mile to prove they are no longer
little kids at the same time they are struggling to cope with the transition
and fit into the image of a cool pre-teen. They are getting used to moving out
of their precious Wonderlands to being more mature, sensible, practical and
realistic. This is the time of realisations and temporary disillusionments…
that their Idols are not actually super humans but mere mortals as anyone else;
that Santa doesn’t actually visit you from the North Pole, but lives right here
in this yours and is called Mom or Dad!
Though
the “real show” begins only about three years from now, the pre-teens is
already offering the perfect trailer to shape me up for coping in the throes of
the most astonishing array of drama, emotions, hormones, mood swings, attitude,
“enhanced” vocabulary, et al!! I sometimes alternate between being amazed and
scandalized when I happen to overhear conversations of my 10-years olds.