Gathering for Shanthi

Amma's favourite niece was in town and she wanted to visit us so Param organised a meet up at OKR. Now a meet up won't be right without food. And if amma was around it would have surely been a spread. Well I'm not amma but I made sure there was a meal. Since it was a Thursday we had to compromise and have vegetarian as well as non-veg. Don't know what she would have thought about that. Anyway it was idiappam, sothi, idili, prawn curry and cutlets for the kids. Suganthi brought a lovely mango cheese cake, I think. Its been a long time since we had little children around so it was a bit noisy but I'm used to it at school so it did not bother me. 

Now let me see if I can remember their names. Shanthi's children are Amara 10 and Nikhil 8. Suganthi's kids are ........ .  I missed the little girl, she is so cute and adorable. I will come back to it later when I remember. I thought Nikhil looked exactly like Shanthi and Amara had her lovely curls. Rasu looked like she had lost some weight. As Jeyanthi said she walks twice a day in the morning and evening so that would be the reason. It was difficult having Chinamah and Rasu around because they remind me so much of amma. It was a shame that Indra was not around then it would have been complete. Opportunities like this are hard to come by so must make an effort. Realisation comes late in life I suppose. 

Anyway it was good to do a bit of cousin bonding. Even Raul and Rania were getting to know their 2nd. cousins. Davinia looked lost when she was introduced to Shanthi. I think its the first time she is seeing her. I was worried that the little fellow might fall in the pond or hurt himself with all the running around that he was doing. I'm sure they had a good night's sleep. 

Amma would have been happy that all her children and her sole grandchild were in attendance. 

SD and NTV no brownie points for you.