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Posted: 9 years ago
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last one... next page res coming up
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Edited by Chokri_ASR - 9 years ago
Posted: 9 years ago
#93
Ari meri Pari,
I wish ki tumhare sab demons choo mantar Ho Jaaye
I wish that you always dream of sugar and spice and all things nice
I wish that you let your Princess Aunty and Ocean Uncle sprinkle magic sleep dust in your eyes with their love as they give thanks for being given an extraordinary child to love and nurture and care for.

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How strange are memories. You fight to remember so much and so much makes its way to the surface, just like that. LIke Aneri instinctively knowing what she ought to do as she was welcomed to her home. Her namaste, her bending down to touch their feet. Responding to the warmth, the joy, the sheer happiness evident in the welcoming elders waiting for her. May Naniji's blessings come true for her.

Aneri's wondrous disbelief seeing the welcome she was getting made me both smile and cry. "Can I please have a balloon? Only one..." Aneri asked softly. There's yearning in there, a hesitancy that speaks of her circumstances. A balloon a luxury not to be just taken even if it was there.

Her considerate nature steals your heart as much as hearing her giggles does. How cute were her attempts to avoid the green stuff and suck merrily on theekha achhar! Even in her excitement at getting the parathas she keeps in mind Ramu Kaka's feelings. I love her, bas.

You have shown Arnav and Khushi automatically think and act as parents really well. The well being of their child their first priority. There have been so many moments in this chapter when I have had an indulgent smile on my face visualising the picture you've painted. Aneri clutching both their hands when they alight from the car,both of them putting her to sleep that first night, her opening her mouth to be fed by Khushi. Just adorable. Oh and tearing round the house with the balloons!

You never know what triggers memories kept at bay. Reading of her feelings as she walked alone to the puja room gives you a sense of the deep rooted fears in her about loss and loneliness. Those you don't physically hold on to, those who leave your eyesight have a way of going away forever. And never coming back. Constant reassurance and love and patience is what her parents will be there with. The trials and tribulations as parents will not faze them as Arnav and Khushi support each other. As you said, patience may not be Arnav's forte, but for his baby ... anything.

Edited by Arshi67 - 9 years ago
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Posted: 9 years ago
#94
Happy Thanks giving to all American Friends celebrating it🥳
Shantivan will no more be shant any more. Not literally though meaning it will now hear the shor of a kid that will nulify that shanti giving calmness and peace to the resident.

How can one even welcome the bundle of joy. Does happiness and joy bound by any rituals of welcome? It just seeps in. Like wise Aneri seeped into the soul of each and every member of Shantivan. We had moments here. So many moments here. I don't even want to list with the fear of missing the best one. Yet the one that is close to my heart is the one when Aneri touches dadi's feat showing how cultured the kid is. How well trained the kid is. The banter between the grandparents is something most of the mothers here will connect to.


Is there a manual to raise a kid? Wish we had one. How harsh is too harsh? Is there an answer to that question but with the love and care from ocean uncle and princess aunty am sure that Aneri will be fine soon. She has nothing to worry about. All her worries will be taken away by these wonderful set of people whom she surely will call Amma/Babuji or Dad/Mom soon. What ever she calls her that is not going to change the fact that she is now daughter of Khushi and Arnav. That she is now Aneri Arnav Singh Raizada.

It will take time but she will manage with the love and care of ARSHI.

Waiting to see how she will react when she is in Chicago. It will be a different animal for her altogether.


Edited by -Bhavi - 9 years ago
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Posted: 9 years ago
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Res for my Jigar ❤️
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This was that syrup that you dunk jilebis in... that sweet sugar syrup that just pushes that dessert over the edge? This update was all that to me.

Whoever said that troubles are halved when shared probably will agree when I say that joy is doubled when shared...

Family Raizada and Nana-Nani just found their bliss when our little Aneri walked in... A chola-packet packing an armory full of love.

But what was even more gratifying was to see the new parents play their roles. Till now we have been imagining them as parents, or have been enjoying them playing parents briefly with Lavanya's and Anjali's kids... but this...this new role that they assume is for 'us'... who have been waiting to see them play.

So, when I read how Arnav carried her over the shoulders, how little Aneri's arms circled his neck, how Khushi fed her the paratha, and how she cuddled the child in her bed... my blood turned into that very syrup I was talking about...

Yes, there are many kinds of love... this one was for the hearts that were bruised by her miscarriage, loss of her dreams, his dreams, his hopes, aches that came with all of that pain... this update was the salve that helped heal.

What else can I say, except that I loved it.. I love it.. and Bas...

❤️
Edited by Mirabell - 9 years ago
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Posted: 9 years ago
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Res for new beginnings
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"Talent is nothing, without focus and endurance. Focus - the ability to concentrate all your talents on whatever's critical at the moment. Without that you can't accomplish anything of value, while endurance - the energy to focus every day for half a year, or a year, or two years. These two help answer the questions. How far can I take something and still keep it decent and consistent? When does it become narrow-minded and inflexible? How much should I be aware of the world outside and how much should I focus in my inner world? H Murakami

With every chapter you show us how much thinking, reasoning, assessment, observation, evaluation has gone into this story. How tiring it can be to delve into all the points of view through which to set a scene, to recount an incident, to bring lines of thoughts forward, to challenge, to ask questions to your readers. To bring a story into being...

For making me think of all these, I am grateful that I read your story...

Time is a greatly compassionate healer...

How different is this welcome to Shantivan from the welcome of Arnav and Khushi to the Gupta's San Diego home. There is so much love and traditions, rebuilt bridges, anticipation for the youngest member of the family, exuberance at seeing the new family in front of their eyes. Aneri, had already made a place in the elders' hearts, they had recognised her importance "in their children's lives". And I look like them, "with thirsty eyes", as they have become parents. And the celebration of the new beginning: new clothes, new joys, new family being welcomed.

Aneri the Extraordinary, makes this welcome so much special, through her memories of following the traditions, finding solace and understanding the love that the elders are showering on her. How endearing and warming are her actions during the aarti and tikka, how heartbreaking her hesitance of touching a balloon, how sweet her laughter throughout the day, how comforting her first time of sleeping alone. She has wrapped everyone around her little finger, with her sweetness and selflessness, she has made Arnav and Khushi take on their roles as parents. Khushi, always, always, always making sure that she is comfortable, giving in to her demands (only aloo paratha for her daughter and only made by her) checking on her with so much concern, almost as much in tears as Aneri, when going in to meet the lawyer. Arnav, so so so teasing, emboldening, lovingly pushing and making sure that she tries new things. Together, they have stepped into their roles as parents to cheer, smooth, fix and love, one as nurturer and the other as encourager (just like two people, that I have come to love dearly)

And the lunch table scene, so uplifiting, easy conversation and laughter being heard during all of it. I love all the details of seeing the dishes from a child's perspective.

Time is cruellest killer...

Aneri has remembered her parents and their traditions at the arti or while attending puja; she has recollected what method worked with her Amma, to not eat the food; she thought of how she slept with them, just before going to bed; the memory of them leaving her made her weary of letting Arnav and Khushi meet with the lawyer; she recalled her fear of loneliness when she went to meet Dadi by herself. All these moments came to a worrying question for her: Will they leave her alone? The pain of missing her parents is like a bubble pipe that just keeps making bubbles. It may start as a filling and a bursting one, but the bubbles just keep coming. Little bubbles of heartbreak that sneak up on you and burst, inundating you again with the tears or the sorrow filling that bubble. It robs you of the memories, it brings the loss closer, it makes you look for the next moment of abandonment, it changes you. And the nightmare starts. It's difficult to heal the nightmares, do you push, do you soothe, how to stop the mind conjuring them? You want to take it all away, but you need to probe to find the best manner of healing this cracked heart. This will leave marks on Arnav and Khushi as well, they will become hesitant of anything that might make her go experience it again. But as parents, you need to learn, that things will not always go your way, that battles have to be chosen carefully, but one thing will never change, the love for your child.

Love conquers all...

There is a crack in everything; that's how the light and love gets in. The love for their daughter will show them the best way to make things better, they will be more capable of experiencing love, giving love, feeling worthy of love, more able to experience the expansiveness of love; the looking outward and upward.

Because the light and love on the other side is soft and gentle and warm and healing, and so you must go, despite the difficulty of the trip.

Edited by albmum14 - 9 years ago
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Posted: 9 years ago
#97
The adoption was challenging - the LOVE arrived instantly.
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Jigs, how wonderfully you write human emotions. As I start reading, I do not want the update to end, I want to read more and more. This heart never gets satisfied however lengthy the update is.

Aneri, true to her name is indeed a special child.

A child who even after facing so many hardships in life, still is a fighter. It is natural to be scared having lost all her near and dear ones, but having said that she accepts people with open arms and gives love back abundantly.

I loved the preparations the Guptas made to welcome this little angel into their lives. I loved how Aneri remembered what her mother had taught her regarding respecting elders, following traditions and she following the same.

It scares me to even think what would have happened to this little girl if she was not found at the accident site by Roshni's brother. And my admiration and respect towards all these people (in real life) working for the betterment of such kids grew many folds after reading all about them.

It pained to see Aneri clutching either Arnav's hand or Khushi's hand all the time and not letting them go even for a few minutes. The fear of losing is so strongly embedded in her heart and she being little might be finding it tough to even put these in words and tell about it to anyone.

And the result is the nightmare. Aneri, meri pyaari gudiya, hope she recovers from the trauma quickly and hope she looks forward to a happier future rather than the sad past more and more.


Edited by canapoem - 9 years ago
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Posted: 9 years ago
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No problems, have a great Thanksgiving :)
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Posted: 9 years ago
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Jigs meri Jaan,

Haha...can just see you gobbling there with your son...have a lovely thanksgiving! And while on the subject of thanksgiving...while we hardly have any such thing in this part of the world, can I just give thanks for this beautiful story once again...that has kept us enthused and happy and made sure we do not miss Arnav and Khushi too much in our real worlds! And now that they are actually back on our screens, for however short a time, and in whatever format, this seems like a double celebration, definitely time to be grateful to the Universe and the powers that be!

Have a great holiday season, and God bless! And to all your lovely readers too, so many of them have become such good friends! An unlikely thing, I assure you had it not been for this common passion we all share! So yes, meri jaan, take a bow! 🤗

Love,

Anu
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Posted: 9 years ago
Just in time... update has been posted on Page 14. Happy Reading!

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