Looking at the last post I did, I realize it has been 2 years since I wrote anything here. For a minute, I got scared when I tried to load my blog post page and it said, it has been removed. I had almost forgotten that blogpost is gone, but my old posts were still alive in blogger.com.
The December of 2024 was spent in India working from there for 2 weeks and having a family vacation for the rest of it. My boys now 23 and 19 years old had not been to India for the past 9 years.
The time spent with Appa and Amma in Nandhavanam (it is the senior living where my parents are at) was good. Appa laughed and smiled for my jokes and sang songs with me. We read some Sujatha story book I had taken with me - this is something we enjoyed since I was little girl. I had wanted to see Meyyazhagan with him and as expected, we both enjoyed every minute of it. The movie did not disappoint me watching a second time and seeing my Appa react as expected to for every scene was bliss.
Another movie I wanted to watch with him was 'Kishkintha Kaandam'. Thanks to my friend who uploaded good quality video of the movie! I could not watch it in the first visit to Chennai due to hospital visits that I had to take Appa to. But on my revisit, I made sure I try my best to watch it with him. I did make it happen in the span of few hours I had the day before leaving back. And he absolutely enjoyed and appreciated KK also! I made fun of his occasional memory issues and pointed him to Vijayaraghavan's character references!
I did not have time to take Appa Amma to a resort like last time. So all my time was spent in Kanchipuram suburbs with them.
Two of the days I took Appa to hospital checkups I was able to take him to different restaurants than A2B. He only goes to A2B, Saravana Bhavan or Sangeetha. One day I took him to a Nagarjuna kind of restaurant hoping for a Ilai pottu meals with parippu podi and the andhra daal. It was not in my destiny during this trip to India. Lunch closed and we had to order a'la carte. But Appa now had to eat things that I ordered and really enjoyed the soup, naan, curry and veg fried rice. The next day I had him try idly manchurian which he would never have ordered if it was left to him - but ended up relishing it.
It has been 3 years since Appa Amma moved to Nandhavanam. This is the first time I was there for at least one day of the annual December Arts Festival. I took Appa to watch the first day music program and then boys and hubby joined too for that and the lunch that day. We did Wordle together (kids and I and thatha) which was a dream also. After that it was time to say bye and leave back to TVM. That made my heart heavy but I cannot show it out. Part of me wanted to execute the North india trip with the boys successfully. Part of me was sad to think I won't be seeing them this trip after this. It is what it is!
