Wanted to do this for a long time, but always had one or the other excuse. Finally I have created a space on the web where i can brag about our achievements, cry about our failures and gossip about of a ton of stuff I want to ...
nah! In fact this would be an apt way to keep in touch with friends and family all over the world.
Recently we celebrated halloween . For Adit it was his third active halloween and he had a blast. Samika for that matter was sucking her pacifier most of the time
during trick and treat. Adit had a halloween parade in his school, where miss jackie told us that it was more of a 'get in a line' exercise most of the time :) . Adit along with his school buddies n'joyed a lot .....
In the evening Gouri and Aai took the kids out for trick or treat along with other little dudes in the neighborhood. Throughout our colony (La Mer), kids were roaming around door-to-door sometines getting trciked but always getting the treat. This remembered me of my childhood when we use to go out distributing 'tilgul' during makar-sankranti. However its so much different culturally. Do not want to go into the religious or secular tones of halloween, but I think it is more important for the kids to have fun-filled memories of early childhood. Now it is debatable if we want them to assimilate into the mainstream american way of life or encourage them to maintain the indain ethnic identity.
