Birthday And Rideversary

 This blog is specially dedicated to my elder son. As we recently celebrated his 16th birthday Feb 19th last month and also Rideversary day of our Tata Tiago EV...this March 19th 2024.

A very "Happy Birthday to our Superman Sukarman "

16 th Birthday Special:-

As my elder son was writing his Igcse grade 10 exams we couldn't celebrate his important milestone in a grand manner. 

As he was running on his hectic schedule going to School attending special classes and preparing for board exams holiday was the only thing he missed as he had school even on Sundays ☺️.

As it was a preparatory holiday ( but still special classes were there)on his birthday he enjoyed staying at home ( I asked him to take off)and relaxing himself was really helpful for cheering himself.

So on his birthday I planned to plant 16 types of plant varieties in our home garden)as a surprise one(it was not that surprising for him though 😜).

Somehow he got convinced and did things, we planted below in our garden.

Vegetables,fruits,flowers that we planted.

Spinach,Ladys finger,brinjal,tomato,Chilly

tulasi,Jasmine, 

hibiscus- 3 varieties, Rose,lemon,pavazhamalli,nadhiavattai,mandharai, naval tree.

We almost planted all by the end of the day.

Earlier before two months we planted coconut trees...

We really enjoyed doing this both of my son's engaged doing garden work 

This is how our garden looked after planting. We planted vegetables in a grow bag on the other side of our garden but missed to take pics.

This birthday will definitely be a memorable one in my son's life...in the years to come....

Rideversary.....😎😍

This is the first year year celebration of our Ev car....This my DH gift for me.... doesn't mean this is our second car .....this is our first car...

We booked our ev as soon as it was launched..We got it delivered after 6 to 7 months of waiting....

In between waiting time we sometimes thought to cancel and go for second hand car until I test drived... I have previously drove Swift,Hyundai( learnt to drive in that car) and did test drive in Renault triber car but it was very big and tough to judge wheel turning.

When I did test drive in Tiago EV felt it was more comfortable to drive as that was the first model I have seen with seat height 😉 adjustment so was easy for me to drive.

Later on the day of our car arrival we all dressed up in teal blue colour to match our car did special pooja by placing Ganesha idol in our dashboard and also solar ring as an add on.

We got our key and took pics and I first drove my car smashing lemons was an unforgettable memory for me

We brought it to our home with the help of a driver. Later on that day we performed pooja in a nearby temple....really it was a big task to take a ride to entrance of our apartment where Ganesha temple located. 

Every time I ride a car it was a big task I have reached 4500kms as of now......will share my driving story in my upcoming blog.....

It has been an year until Our Tiago became a member of our family ,we would really like to thank our travel buddy for our safe journey with our family. Happy Rideversary to our Tiago Ev....🤩

12th Birthday Fun Frugal / Lavish (Part- 1)

 This 23 November 2022 our Little Master turning Twelve. Time is flying hard to believe that our Little one turning 12.

Couple of years back we celebrated our elder sons 12th Birthday by getting Twelve surprise gifts for his birthday which I have detailly written in one of my blogs.

It would be boring if we follow the same kind of stuffs, that too both of my son's love creative ones.

So to make it memorable found this idea💡

I will be giving Rs. 500 to my son he need to buy 12 different things with the given money, he should not spend more than 500 also number of items should be Twelve.

This is to find out whether he spends money carefully or carelessly ie Frugal/ Lavish.

My younger one loves to make checklist so he started making list of things he need to buy. 

His first thing was to buy Lassi for his Appa as my DH loves it. BUT we said strict no to food items. So he need to think alternative. His bucket list filled with needs of Appa, Amma, Anna, Himself. Good to see that he  included our needs as well.  (younger one planned to buy one thing for us but elder suggested to buy each 3 items so he could buy exact 12 things). 

Later asked him to estimate amount for things he listed and it totalled upto Rs. 360. 

So we need to go to shop if his estimation matches with actual. 

Keeping fingers crossed we started to shopping centre - Mithran Super Stores @Guduvancherry with his name (whenever we visits that shop he feels overwhelmed by seeing price tag in his name........ But sad thing is we need to pay for it 😜😜😜). 

Shopping Fun To be continued.......... 

Twelve years old!!!!

Today is 19th February 2020

My elder son's birthday,

We stopped cake cutting and partying after first three years, for few years we used to decorate different creative decorations n did cake cutting. 

These days we celebrate by cooking all favourites of my kids on that day and make them feel special. Of course this is quite interesting, both my sons love this idea, my DH also enjoys celebrating this way.

Me and my sons love doing creative stuffs and mostly our house is a mess by doing all these never mind kids enjoy these very much. Birthdays are meant for celebrating and spending time with family, those party celebrations are not suitable for us as we can't focus on our kids for that day and make them feel special.

So we follow like this any creative decorations, any new add on special items we see for birthday like birthday banner, led balloons, party coolers likewise, and a special birthday dress for both my sons ( to avoid feeling left out), and their favourite dinner menus, for recent bday they used to prepare birthday menu cards with their favorites and stick on the fridge a week before so that it is easy to organize.

Ok let me share my experience elder son's birthday celebration for this year.

Started day with his favorite food like idly sambar for breakfast,schzewan fried rice for lunch and chapathi panneer butter masala for dinner.

His birthday card
Inside view

 Out side view

 His favorite jamun

Simple birthday decorations I used cloth drying stand to display smiley balloons with his 12 gifts.

Super duper birthday surprise

Well this is February month my elder son's birthday month,today is 16th three days to go.....

So Planning for birthday surprise

Indeed it is a big task to make surprises but not a difficult task….to surprise our kids and make them feel special on their birthday as kids enjoy small happiness of their life, especially my sons love those cute little stuffs.

So I am preparing for surprising my elder son for this year's birthday as this is his 12th birthday and he is just stepping on his teens and also for 2020.

I thought many more things and finally ended up this way like buying 12 gifts and give him as a surprise. But just buying 12gifts n giving will make no surprise.

Ok let me share my plan.

First I made list of his like items and pack in different gift wraps.I started this process of buying from last week.

Buying is not a big deal but as this is for surprise we need to go alone for shopping and after that those items needed to be kept secret till the day of surprise. Hiding things is a big deal in our home as kids explore nook n corner of our home including kitchen.

Somehow I found a secret place, asking any suggestions to my little son will end up in announcing our secret plan, as he can't keep up secrets. So I found a place on my kitchen shelf and hided. Still few more items pending.So far I bought 8 items, one more is on way in courier, planning to buy trolley school bag and lunch bag for one more item am still thinking. 

As that day was regular school day, we are planning for this surprise on that day evening.

Step 1

Wake up with a personalised collage video song with a birthday pop up card,(hand made card)

Process going on

Will share my completed card on my son's birthday as that is a surprise.

Rest all at the end of day.

Evening by all dressed up in traditional clothes, will Give my son a code cracking game, that is in that card he has a set of clues he need to guess right word n find out this 

SURPRISE GIFT

That is he should use first letter of the 12 clues to find above two words.

Later he must go to Fridge for next clue 

The below is the clue card for fridge

Once he gets that he will be directed to gift box place ,(decorations n packing still going on)

Where he can see 12gifts, as an add on he will get 10dhms for guessing gifts correctly without opening it,which he can put in his savings box as well. 

In between I plan to make his favorite breakfast,lunch and dinner with his favorites like jamun and Pani Puri all homemade items for the day, hope he likes this surprise and enjoys his day .

Advance birthday wishes to our son Sukarman

The above is a special photo card for him.