This is my gift to you

I have a lot of catching up to do. I thought about creating this blog when you were still inside me, all cozy in my womb. I thought...I think it might interest you one day to read about what was going on in my mind at various stages as we bring you up. Then when you were born, I felt everyday was a learning experience. No matter how prepared we were for your arrival, there was still so much to learn. There was never any dearth of advice or information...that's one thing I learnt after I became pregnant and more after you were born. Women everywhere irrespective of color, ethnicity, religion or any other distinction, once they become a mom share an awesome feeling of camaraderie. The sisterhood never lets you down, they never want you to flounder in the troubled waters they overcame, be it the struggles of breast feeding, the tricks of longer naps, the art of starting solids....you name it. I found most of these tidbits of info useful. Even though some of it never applied to you, it was nevertheless comforting to know that others have experienced similar troubles and more importantly they had overcome or a better word is circumvented it.

 I want to record these information somewhere in the hope that it might help me again sometime if we are lucky enough to create another wonder like you :) Even more, I hope you will find this useful one day, when you become a mother yourself. So with those lofty ideas I will set about writing this blog. I will try my best to capture some of the best times of my life as you go about teaching me how to be a mom, my love.

P.S: in the days when you were safely tucked inside me, when the t.v was not just a showpiece in the house, we used to watch this serial called "raising hope". It's about a family bringing up this baby called Hope. When I asked Sathiq to suggest a name for the blog, this is the first thing he suggested. And I felt it quite apt too