Me, myself and myself

This blog of mine would be like a personal diary bringing in happenings from my daily life which would mainly include my family. I feel this would make me understand myself better from a different perspective.

I am an open person. I do not mind speaking openly what I feel about another person if our relationship is such but I just found out recently that I would do that even if it hurts someone else's feelings. I love making friends and I appreciate the openness I share with all of my friends.

After the completion of my studies I never got a chance to work immediately becos I had my first child after completing my masters and stayed home till she was 10 months. I worked as an HR executive in a small firm in India for a few months till we made decisions to move to the US. The delay in getting our visa made me jobless for nearly a year and since we got an H1 visa i became a dependent on my husbands visa and that makes me jobless till now. Of course without wasting that time we had our second baby and now I am a full time mommy who hopes to join the work force once the recession gets better :).

I like being fair. I can overreact to some issues which I have deep convictions on.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2009

Make a Smilebox greeting

I made two cards this year. The other one was full of our snaps taken during the month of December but I decided to publish this card which was the one I decided to send out to friends. Christmas was snowy this year and it was lovely to have a white Christmas for the first time in my life.

Make a Smilebox scrapbook

Just thought I will add the second one to my Blog too :). It was fun using smilebox

Tacoma- Seattle.

Before i finaly write it. I must say its taken me nearly two years to actually start writing this blog. I wasnt much of a writer always but I loved the idea of having a personal diary and when my husband asked me to do it in the form of blogging I was too lazy to start but finally i am thinking of giving it a shot.

It took us nearly a year to get the US visa after we filed the application for the H1 visa in 2006sept. We reached the US on Aug 23 2007 to Tacoma, Seattle. It wasnt my first visit abroad but it sure was the first one to the US. I am an Indian but have had only 5 years of stay in India all my life so in some respects I wasnt so sad to be away from India. The fact that i came to the US pregnant with my second child was not an easy phase for me. The settling in and the cold winter did take its toll on me. My husband didnt have an easy time.

Indians were very few in Tacoma so that actually dampened my spirits a bit. But within a month or two we met around 7- 8 families around our area which made me hopeful but i still wanted a close friend( other than my husband:)) something which i missed having been away from India. My elder child was a girl of 2 and there were 2 families that had kids of her age and so it was a relief to her too. The 7 familes would meet up every friday for a prayer or more to say as a get together which was good in a way not becos i am a spiritual person but also becos we had somethign to look forward to for my daughter.