Found the Picture

Valandrial of the Green Elves from Patti Culea's doll class.

Doll from Patti's Class

This morning I thought I should post the picture of my doll and wrote a short note about it. But what can I do when I can't find the picture! I could not even find the folder which had my pictures in it. So here I am.................

Happy Blog-a-versary

It has been a year since my first blog entry! I am so glad that I lasted this long. I have been looking forward to today for over a month now. I tried to finish a doll so I could post some pictures but could not finish the doll with a face that I am not very happy with.

Rakhi Day came early this year and here is a picture of Rakhi Day at my house. Nita is tying a Rakhi on her brother Neel's wrist (with a little help from Mommy). This Rakhi was sent by my brother's little daughter Minty to Neel.

Tiny Doll

Every month my doll club has raffle for which the members contribute dolls or doll related items. This one was my contribution this month. The doll is just about 3" tall and loads of fun to make. The turban is made from angelina fiber we made in Patti Culea's class.

First Day of Schools

Isn't first day of school so much fun? I remember very fondly my own school days when I had a big school supply list to "lug" to school which included new notebooks, text books (which were used- back then when I was growing up we always tried to recycle textbooks in India. I am not sure how it is now.), pencils in a new pencil box and above all a brand new school uniform. Well, I re-lived that feeling yesterday when I accompanied my 9 year old on his first day of school. He sported a brand new uniform and he never had to wear a uniform before (he just changed schools) and a happy excited face, eager to meet his new classmates and his new teacher.

When I was in my elementary school, I would not know who my class teacher was until she/he stepped into the classroom. We would peep through the windows or into the corridor (hallway) to see which teacher was walking towards our classroom. Of course there were rumors and lots of discussions about who it could be, way before school reopened. Unlike here in the states where one teacher teaches everything (except, maybe PE) , we always had 4 or 5 teachers teaching different subjects and languages even in elementary school and one classroom teacher.

Oh, enough about my nostalgic memories. Lets talk about the title now. I say First Day of Schools because both my kids' schools reopened yesterday. My kindergartener started her school yesterday too. Since both the schools have similar opening time, my DH drove her to school and I did my son. Today we switched children and I got to see my daughter go to her classroom with a very shy smile (which lasts for about a minute because she is very social and has already made a few "best friends" (And who keep changing everyday because her list of best friends was very different today- her second day at school!).