YESTERDAY 1.30 pm: Leap 6 is really messing with the baby's nap schedule. I can't get anything done with these 20 minute naps. 2.23 pm: What isn't he napping? Why won't he stop crying? How do other mothers deal with this...
I’ve always found summing up a whole year in one word or a few to be quite cheesy. Most days in the year are, after all, simply a blur of hurried routine, a mixture of highs and lows, minor successes, disappointments...
We are no strangers to insecurity. Everyday in Pakistan we are reminded of our mortality, in some parts of the country more than others, where the idea of a good day means only ten deaths in the city that day. The fear of...
Now that Nael is growing up (boo-hoo but yay?) and I get a little break while he crawls around and plays on his own, I’ve managed to find time to read again. Granted I can rarely read more than a half a page at a time...
“You must be missing Pakistan a lot!” Said an acquaintance I bumped into here in Cambridge, when I told her I had recently moved back here. My instinctive response was an emphatic no. “Not at all”, I...
An article popped up all over my Twitter feed this morning on how working women are treated shabbily by Pakistani organizations which, according to the writer, do nothing to accommodate pregnant women. Since it was being tweeted...
We have recently set up our third home in 4 years. And my book collection always ranks high in making my home, well, home-y. One of the many difficult parts about moving cities/ countries is leaving my books behind. New books...
So we managed it. Moved countries and set up a new home with a 4 month old. All through his fourth leap, which is notorious for being one of the most testing and nerve-wracking leaps for parents (although aren’t they...
Someone recently asked me why I have been reading “self-help” books, and then proceeded to point towards my Goodreads bookshelf. The judgemental tone, although I knew that it was just grounded in ignorance, rankled me. I...
‘Twas a long holiday weekend. And after three straight days of feeling under the weather, bingeing on ice cream and a Breaking Bad marathon, we thought we should venture out and do some sightseeing outside Cantt and Gulberg...