After a long break with a lovely news...

All right, so it’s been over two years since I visited this place. Had been completely occupied with my new job, work and playing with Shaurya. However, I must confess that it’s my laziness that did not let me visit this space.

I hope that I should be able to visit this place more often now and post something or the other that’s happening here. Well, well, well…I have got loads of updates but I just guess that I am able to express the same excitement while writing about the older things and lost of time does not come in my way.

Wow, Shaurya has a lil’ sister now – yes, we were blessed in the afternoon of 16^th January 2012 with an angel. Morning was slightly tense when I took Prachi to hospital as this time again it was to be a C-section delivery. We got her admitted and were told that she will be the third one to go inside the OT. Moments this time were not as tense as we experienced when Shaurya was to come. Perhaps, we were experienced this time. Well, to that note, this time during the entire pregnancy period both Prachi and I had been slightly casual and lesser stressed – I think it was our experience coupled with taking care of Shaurya that never let us think about the negative sides of it.

Well, we had to wait for about 6 hours for Prachi’s turn to come and around 03:15 PM a ward boy came to us and told “badhai ho, ek bahut pyari sundar si bitiya aayi hai (you are blessed with a very lovely and beautiful baby girl)”. Soon we were called to see her before she was shifted to NICU. This time, I captured her on my phone camera and then let her go. We were told that Prachi was fine and will be shifted to room in 3-4 hours and around the same time baby will also be handed over to us.

All our phones were busy for next 1 hour giving the good news to relatives and friends and thanking them for their wishes.

While everyone was saying to us that this time again it will be boy, it was Prachi who knew in her heart that it would be a girl. She told me many times that when everyone tells me that it is a boy, although I do not reply to everyone but I know in my heart that I have wished for a daughter and God will fulfil my wish. An amazing thing happened in the morning as well, my dad dreamt of a small little girl early in the morning. He got up and told my mom, it’s going to be a girl, I have seen a small beautiful girl in white dress like a fairy.

God has been really very kind to us as he blessed us with both a boy and a girl for parenting.

Well, Shaurya has been graduated from his pre-school and started going to a formal school in Nursery standard since April this year. So far he’s doing well in school and his teachers wrote about him following words: “Shaurya is very smart and intelligent. He has settled well in the class and concentrates on new concepts and ideas that are taught. His vocabulary is very good, several time he surprises us with new word that he uses and explains to his classmates.” I was a proud father after hearing good feedback in the PTM. I realised how a father feels when someone esp. teachers of your child praise him. I was able to relate what my Dad must be experiencing when my teachers used to provide feedback about me.

It was again a different kind of feeling of fatherhood. May God’s and elders’ blessing remain with us like this.

Next one will be about how Shaurya treats Shreeya (yes, that's her name) and how she’s growing up….