Happy Birthday to Ila

അമ്മേടെ കുഞ്ചുന്

ഇളക്ക് ഇന്ന് 2 വയസ്സാകുവാ !!!....Happy Birthday Kunju..

ഈ അച്ചയും അമ്മയും എന്താ എൻറെ Birthdays ഒന്നും ആഘോഷിച്ചില്ലേ എന്ന് ഇച്ചിരി കൂടി വലുതാകുമ്പോ (ഇത് വായിക്കുമ്പോൾ) കുഞ്ചു ചോദിക്കുമോ ആവോ… എന്നാലെ അച്ചക്കും അമ്മയ്ക്കും ഇപ്പൊ ഇതാ ഇഷ്ടം… ഇള Big girl ആകുമ്പോ ചിലപ്പൊ വേറെ Style ഒക്കെ ആകും. എന്നാലും ഇപ്പൊ ഇങ്ങനെ മതി. Hmm….വേണേൽ ഒരു കേക്ക് ആകാമായിരുന്നു. പക്ഷെ ഇന്ന് നമ്മൾ കുഞ്ഞു മോൻ അപ്പൂപ്പടെ മോൾടെ കല്യാണത്തിന് മലപ്പുറത്താ. So ഏതായാലും No cake today..Okay പഞ്ഞേ…!

ഇനി അമ്മ കുഞ്ചുനോട് കുറച്ചു serious കാര്യങ്ങൾ പറയട്ടേ . വലിയ കുട്ടി ആയി ഇംഗ്ലീഷ് ഒക്കെ പഠിച്ചിട്ടു വായിച്ചാൽ മതി കേട്ടോ മുത്തെ… അപ്പൊ ഇതാ അമ്മേടെ ഒരു കുഞ്ഞു Gift…just not for your birthday...but for your future too...

It was a Friday noon 2 years ago… Dr. Anne at Joy’s Hospital had lifted you belly-down from my big fat stomach while you shrieked like a red-faced bloody alien. As nurses cleaned and bundled you in my white cotton dupatta and lowered you down to my shivering body for that first kiss, I had literally felt my heart jumping out! Slowly as anesthesia gripped my senses, I felt my whole world changing… I knew life was never going to be the same anymore… !

Here WE ARE… 2 years later…. Hmmmm …..It was not an easy way for both of us till here….may be a little so for your acha too… But your “പാപ്പു ചിരി” has been worth all that..it ebbed all the pangs…

Time just flew so swiftly and you have quickly grown out of my hands...my lap.. so sudden…so quick..!!!! and lo...now you are getting ready to take off to the big bad world as a 2-year old toddler !!…

HERE'S A B.I.G. HUG-HUGGIE...(Hugga-a-a- gggaaaaah-) and a B.I.G. THANK YOU for my little  angel

This time a bit special one...Know for what...???
-for teaching me so many valuable things half way through my life

But for you, I would never have re-discovered my SELF… -looped in so many things -big and small-
I would never have known the finer difference between ‘pure love’ that God created
and the one stained with human egos and strangled in cobwebs of past..

Overnight you'd made me aware and may be your acha too)
how short TODAY is and how brief LIFE is ...
We could have never tasted the sweetness of patience and forgiveness…
Unless you'd made everything else in the world seem so silly ...

You have taught me to be happy with whatever I am…wherever I am…whoever I am….
Each of your little footsteps have taught me to be thankful and grateful
to the ultimate force- above all castes and creeds- The Almighty -
for saving us from disasters…to count on the blessings than to worry over the baggage of curses…
Your bouts of tantrums and anguish taught me the strength, richness and softness of a mother’s heart…

As I happily set aside my favourite routines and sleep patterns just to watch you sleeping peacefully
clinging on to my breast-side,
I was realising...there's an ultimate truth in life…
Thank you for teaching me that.
THANK YOU for making me a MOTHER.

As you take bigger strides towards life,
I just wanted to tell you how much you are being loved and enjoyed…
You are such a WONDERFUL GIFT God has ever given me 
May He guard your little sweet life in all its innocence in HIS safe hands…
May you grow to be a good human being…
your feet firm on the earth even as you touch the clouds…
May the sweetness of amma’s പാപ്പു linger in your little lips however big you grow…
So that you don’t forget to love all and be loved by all….

World is not so good Ila…n life is not at all easy…
But … love and prayers can change everything……
And you ought to know...it's only selfless PURE LOVE and SINCEREST PRAYERS…

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