This THANKSGIVING, firstly let me thanks all of you readers for taking time and visiting my blog and reading it, leaving comments and following my easy-peasy DIY's / tweeks. Wish u all a very HAPPY THANKSGIVING from my family to yours !!!
I would like to share a story which happened on this very day this year. My little one is four years and has her own world of imagination as every kid does. She is of the talkative lot, if something urges her attention otherwise not. It's fun to hear her side of say sometimes, well sometimes annoying, and at times shocking. Parent's with kids will surely understand what i mean to say exactly as we are the first one's to face it at home and sometimes it happens outside home too.
Every special occasion and during festivities we chat in India with our paternal and maternal side of our family. So my little one was chatting with her grandmom "Ba" as she calls her in Gujarati, my husband's mother. They were talking on the concept of Thanksgiving as Ba was asking her what is it and what she knew about it. Anything that involves pumpkin is her favourite topic, she is all excited since the start of autumn as the pumpkin season arrives...she is all ga-ga about her pumpkin talks since then till the end of Christmas and New year. Since the age of two she has her pumpkin stories and it grows long and more imaginative with each passing year. Some stories are new and some are extensions of the old ones which me and my husband know byheart by now.
After done with rolling roti's that morning, i was boiling dal for lunch time and hearing their talks from a distance. Ba and my little one were talking about turkeys, fall weather, rains, pumpkins, halloween and her own story. Suddenly something of growing roti's on trees in far forest fell into my ear's... glooming eyes round and big i was like... did i heard it right, so i stopped cooking to hear what actually did she say.
She : As we do not eat turkey's on this day and pumpkins too as we just carve and lighten up the pumpkins and do not eat them too.
Ba : What are you going to eat then,
She : Roti, sabji, whatever Mom makes.
Ba : Do u know to make food.
She : No Mommy makes it, i eat.
Ba : Do you know where the food comes from.
She : Yes, from trees, farms, we have gone there many times. There is apples, cherries, strawberry's, pumpkin all grows on farm on trees.
Ba : I asked you about roti's.
She : Yes roti's also from trees.
Me : Still with the gloomy eye and shocked.
ME : Really !!! What on earth i have been making roti's everyday for lunch when roti's grows on trees. Please show me that tree, bring me that tree.
Ba : Really, ok so roti grows on trees. Have you seen roti growing on a tree.
ME : I wonder Ba would have also thought, whole life i would have searched that tree for good. LOL.
She : Yes, somewhere. But i don't know.
Ba : Where did you see.
She : Far away in the forest there. Far, far very very far off. And scary too.
Ba : Really.
She : Yes.
Ba : But i have not seen a roti tree any day, in any forest.
She : It is smowhere there far away. I also lost it in the forest.
Ba : Still confirms. Are you sure roti grows on trees. Then what does mummy make in the kitchen.
She : She just makes the roti round.
Ba : "tari bhali thay" in gujarati and laughed out loud.
Overhearing their conversation from the distance sitting on the dinning chair me and my husband intrigued this conversation with Ba and laughed out aloud over this innocent and imaginative story.
Whenever such conversations arise with her or she has her thoughts on some talks, it happens suddenly within the topic and to our surprise. Sometimes, we silently hear her out or talk through that conversation to enjoy the talk and have a hearty giggle. I know so mean we are...hahahah but it's fun to see the curiosity and the thought process of a small kid's mind.
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