We had snow fall throughout this morning till dusk. The entire neighbourhood is filled with snow. The arrival of snow adds another layer of joy to the festive season. I am hoping to have a white christmas like last year and years before.
We have huge picture windows throughout our house. The picture window in our family room faces our garden. Our home is in the lower elevation than our neighbours and we have natural rocks/boulders as retaining wall in our garden. We have a maple tree in the corner of garden and weeping cherry tree in the corner near our picture window. I love watching the maple tree change its color by the season. Fall gardening is hard due to back breaking chores like pruning , weeding and collecting bags and bags of fallen leaves. It's especially hard after a delivery , not so easy postpartum and managing a 8 month throughout the day. But I do it with love knowing that we will have a beautiful display of colors during spring and fall next year. I love having my cup of tea in the morning watching our garden. We have stayed in many beautiful places but sipping a cup of tea with view of my garden gives me immense satisfaction.
I leave NR in his high chair or in his stroller near the picture window facing our garden . I can watch him from our kitchen and he checks me out constantly just to make sure that his mom is there next to him. He loves watching trees for hours together. NR goes into nishtai (dissolution of the self into Oneness of Brahmam or Sivam or god) by watching trees. At times he talks , he giggles and gaze at them thinking so deeply. He has been watching two portraits depicting tree lined Italian countryside from his birth and he loves those two pictures. He started observing trees during our summer walks in the stroller . My 13 year niece used to joke that those two pictures are NR lovers and he is going to marry them : ).
NR was mesmirized by the powdery snow fall. He had such joy in his face and was very happy seeing the snow fall for more than an hour. We kept ourselves warm by staying indoors. I had marathan cooking day today and managed to cook for next three days within two hours.
I am extremely thankful this weekend for able to watch this snow fall as a family . We had bit of mishap on friday. NR fell of on the carpet from his baby carrier due my one sec stupidity. Last week , we bought a new baby carrier for our upcoming trip to India. I was carrying NR in front position for last couple of days. Though he loves to be with me while doing the chores, he felt little tight at times. So I tried to check the new back position. I was able to put him on the back position all by myself and while trying to take NR from the carrier , I took my shoulder strap off while sitting on the bed. I dunno what made me to think that my husband sitting inches away in sofa might be able to safely take NR from the carrier. I just turned and right at that time NR decided to arch his body back and I lost the grip and within flashing sec he just fell off on the carpeted floor. I have never seen my husband so distraught like this in the past 17 years not even at this dad's funeral. I called his pediatrician and he asked us to watch for some symptoms. NR was okay but even after an hour we were really scared so we took him to the ER . The dr came and just checked his head and said he is doing fine. He spent hardly 10 minutes with us and we waited 2 hrs for this 10 minutes check up. The wait was gruelling but NR made the full use of it. It was well past his bed time but he was so active and enjoyed all the bright lights in the lobby. I thanked his guardian angel for watching over him. I am a paranoid mom who watches her son throughout day but one split sec decision to turn my back from the bed caused us so much grief. I did not sleep that night and I kissed NR thousand times and asked him to forgive me for taking a stupid decision that scared him.
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