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11 Memories of year 2022 #BlogChatterBlogHop

I read this quote on Google and realized the value of my power.

2022 is the best year for me as it gives abundance - Love, and lessons.

When I started my blog I wanted to document yearly review but due to some boundaries unable to do that. I came across this blog hop by #blog chatter and my hands automatically goes to keyboard.

2020 was the bitter year. 2021 was the blessing of 2020 and so I had my twin pregnancy in late 38's and 2022 is with my twins. Yeaa, had my twins in my arms safe, and healthy.☺

This year 2022 was more stressful for us. You will get to know how Twin mother can survive on her own while in her postpartum and motherhood journey.

But there were lots of happy moments I captured in my mobiles and after revisiting them we forgot our stress. Having twin is blessing. Sharing personal memories with hope that some of you can relate with us. And you can change the perspective towrds life. This year is all about my baby and baby and baby.

Twin Pregnancy

When I was in college I always wanted to have a twin baby. I was curious how the lady can have two tiny species in a womb. How can they survive inside the womb? And how that lady deliver the babies ? And guess what ?

I experienced all this ☺

It is called "law of attraction " Universe always support you and you have to keep a faith.

So here are my 11 memories of 2022 :

1. January was the first month of 2022 where I survived independently with my twinnies. Unexpected things happened a lots and there was nobody to help me. Being c section with two tiny babies I was emotionally deprived and physically drained. But the ladies from my family had no heart. This bitter memory - that you do everything good for your family but such heartless people do exist, Specially woman😑 is always hurt. ( Does it happen with you?)

I survived and realized my power💪🏻.

2. Achieved success in handling both of them for feeding. Yes I had a lots of struggle to breastfeed them, but with constant trial and error I was able to breastfeed these tiny little delicate babies. Only difficulty was to burp them at the same time. Again I called this was due to the affirmations. I made positive affirmation during my twin pregnancy and one of them was to breastfeed my twins. I did almost tandem feeding.

I learned that Affirmations do work.

3. I am greatful to my cook. She is like a family and take care of me as my mother. Feed me on time with hot breakfast, lunch and dinner. Though we pay money to them but not everyone can take care of you as a family. And this time where we did not have real family, she was the savoir.🙏🏻

Good karma always pay you back.

4. In two and half month my babies turned on their tummy. Milestone of my babies like neck part, turning on one side, crawling, gaggling and many more - achieved so fast and quick. Intentionally control myself for not sharing any of these precious moments on social media.

Learned we can not document everything.

5. My caring Partner Mr. Hubby : I know my husband loves me a lot but second time realize that how much he was emotionally connected with me. My late twin delivery in 39's was challenging. And where no elderly people with us he was constantly with me. Keep me happy and motivated every time.

Greatful to God for such wonderful Partner.

6. My matured elder one who were witnessed of everything. But glad that she took only happy part of being a big sister. This one was the bitter memory where she was with us in every up and down phase of life. She learned a lots of about family peoples and relations.

I learned from her how to choose joy because life is always difficult.

7. Able to celebrate diwali with my twins. Able to drew rangoli, had deep cleaning of my house and got ready with my 3 girls and hubby with our traditional way.

Able to stick with tradition, rituals and transfer it to the next generation.

8. First time I had a babysitter/nanny inspite of having granny. Becasue she was not interested to have grandchildren specially girl child. And, it is okay, for us.

Blessed to have loving nanny who take care of me and my babies like a family person.

It is okay to trust outsiders. They can be your big support.

9. Back to my cooking. I am greatful that I was able to cook and gave lunch box to my hubby. He had been eating out for more than 1 and half year. It was not easy to get up early in the morning with sleepless nights but tried and Successful.

Everything is possible with little bit of push.

10. Happy to spend time with my elder one. She cried many times due to non availability of mummy with her.😑 And after lots of struggle I was finally able to succeed. Not 100 percent but I figured out to have date with my elder daughter. After all she had been my best friend over this 8 years. 🙂

Had errands, movie date, cook date with her. Looking forward with many fun things.

It is important to have one on one time with your each child.

11. Last but not the list - My Blog.

Able to get back on my blog. Success knock on the door with hardwork. My dream come true to become a successful mom blogger. This was the first step of my success and many more to come.

Dedication and hard work pay back to you.

With love of my hubby and daughters we struggled a lot and have a happy, yes we can say "HAPPY " 2022.

Because we learned :

💜 To accept the people the way they are.

💜 It is okay.

💜 Time is temporary and it will fade away.

💜 We nurture our babies without any guilt.

💜 To enjoy each phase of life though it is tough or smooth.

We had babies after so many trial and error and in a natural way. And that is the main reason of our "HAPPINESS"

Finally I have my big Family.😎

Dec 11 is the birthday of my twins ❤ We have crossed the difficult journey -"TWINMOTHERHOOD" Yeaaaa! We made it. 🙌🏻🤘Saee and Mr. Hubby😘

How was your 2022? Share your special memory in comment section.

This post is a part of Blogchatter Blog Hop.

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When my alarm didnt ring this morning

The door bell

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The Door bell -#BlogChatterBlogHop

It was Saturday, I was sitting near my window reading a book and" lag ja gale "was playing on my Spotify.

The door bell

My favorite thing to sit quietly alone and staring at highway. A silent highway attracted me a lot because it was so much noisy in a whole day. At midnight it became silent but not sleepy. One or two small cars were till knocking him. Big trucks made loud sound and tried to wake him up. I love that silence and old songs of kishore Kumar on my loop.

It was around 12:30 a.m. everyone was sleeping and I felt hungry. So I went to the kitchen to grab my favorite snack item Shankarpali. I was munching and humming a song. Suddenly I saw one lady walking on the road. She wore a white sari and had beautiful black and long hair. Within a blink she sat. That sight was little bit confusing because of the way she was sitting on the hedge of the road. The moving vehicles didn't bother her at all. And I saw her hair started to roll down on the road. It look like she was sitting by posing her back towards the highway and her hair was lying all over the the highway!

It was scary. I scream loudly and my brother woke up from his phone. I showed him and he also shocked.

He : Chal dekhake aate hain. Who is she? Why she is sitting like this?

I : 🙄 with the same expression. Are you going mad? Check what time is it? It is almost midnight.

And in the meanwhile she was disappeared!

Yes, she disappeared.

It gave goosebumps!

"Ting tong ' the door bell rang. We both were looking at each other and almost shattered.

To be continued......

This post is a part of Blogchatter Blog Hop.

This blog post is part of the blog challenge ‘Blogaberry Dazzle’ hosted by Cindy D’Silva and Noor Anand Chawla.

French cheese toast sandwich

They said involve kids in cooking if you want to feed them healthy food. When kids prepare food or help you in preparing food chances are they will finish food quickly. And it is true. (Exprienced mom 😎).

French Toast sandwich are very well known to us. Those who don't know it is a bread dipped in the mixture of egg, milk and vanilla essence.

I add up cheese only😉 but it is different. It is kid version. We mom always like to feed healthy food. Weight a minutes, sandwich are in healthy food group na?

I guess yes subject to condition the bread should be whole wheat and inside of the sandwich all material should be healthy. 😉Right? Correct me if I am wrong.

If you agree then don't forget to check out my sandwich recipes here.

Okay, let's jump in the recipe.

Recipe : French Toast Cheese Sandwich

Type : Snacks/Breakfast

(for 1 kid/person)

🕗Prep time : 5 minutes

🕗Cook time : 5 minutes

🕗Total time : 10 minutes

Ingredients :

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Bread slices (whole wheat or multigrain) 2 No's.

Egg 2 nos

Chilli flex as per taste

Mixed herb as per taste

Oregano (optional)

Salt as per taste

Pizza pasta sauce - as much as your kid like.

Amul butter

Cheese block or slice.

Pre-preparation:

1. Remove outer crust of bread if you don't like it.

2. Amul butter and cheese should be at room temperature.

3. If you don't have pizza pasta sauce then mix mayo and tomato ketch up.

Direction :

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We make this simple sandwich in 3 steps.

Step 1 : Prepare egg mixture :

Break the egg and add chilli flex, mixed herb, oregano salt, and beat it very well until its fluffy.

Step 2 : Preparing bread :

Dip bread slice into the mixture from both side so that mixture coated very well.

Next heat up pan. Add amul butter 1 tsp and roast the dipped bread until golden crisp. Bread is ready.

Step 3 : Assembling sandwich

Give this part to kids they will love to do it.

Add pizza pasta sauce or mayoneese and hot n sweet sauce to the roasted bread.

Grate cheese and cover it with other fried bread.

Cut it as per your choice. Your French Toast cheese sandwich is ready.

Don't forget to check the video here

N follow me for simple kid friendly real life recipe😁

Variation :

You can add up many vegetables if you want. Like sliced onion, lettuce, cucumber, tomato etc.

I prefer to keep it simple. Because this is after school snack which can be ready in 10 minutes. My child love to eat vegetables sandwich too so I do not have to take extra efforts.

Many of you may be making this recipe. If it is new to you, and if you like it then please share the recipe.

The Mom Uniforms

A happy Mom means a Happy Home and a Happy Family.

Happiness of a mom is depend on lots of things. Let's do not discuss that because that is other subject. Every one have different aspect and so happiness too. But our happiness is totally depends on us irrespective of the situations. Sometimes putting ourselves together makes most of us happy. Remember how much we are happy when we dressed up for any functions!

So a little bit change of the situations. Instead of a function you are at your home, sweet home and to make this home heaven you have to be happy. Do you agree?

Mom uniforms - Does it bring any picture in your mind?

PS : istock

When we saw a well dressed mom on social media we feel, wow! Yaar, how can she stay so stylish?

And then we see ourselves in mirror and pity on ourselves. 😶

Why is that so?

Though she had helper or may be she is doing for social media. Do we need to get influence by her?

Yes, not for comparison but for well being of ourselves. Don't you think that? Shouldn't we ditch that pyjama or nighty? Don't you think we need to step out from our comfort zone?

If your answers are YES, to all above question then you are at right place.

A new mom or any mom when they are at home they used to be in nighty mostly. Are you one of them? If not then I am glad. Because I believe we homemaker also need to dress up nicely inside the home too.

Why that is needed?

Well, this is my opinion, hope you can relate to it.

# When we are dressed up neatly we feel fresh, positive and energetic for the whole day. If I do not change my nighty I feel sick for whole day.

# When you wear comfortable clothes and well dressed our children see the happy mom and the happy positive vibes automatically pass on them.

# I feel happy and so there is less chance of irritation 😐 and so no more temper out on children.

# When your child find you neat and happy they tend to be like you. They keep themselves well dressed. This is my experience because children imitate us.

#Well dressed means for me the clothes must be comfortable and fashionable which is according to your choice. Some like to wear frock, some like to wear skirt and top, some trousers, some leggin, some shorts and some like to wear even sari too😍.

So make sure you look good for yourself. Only dressing properly will change the whole personality. There is no need to have a full make up and hairstyle but yes surely be elegant and can be ready at any time to leave the home. 😊

Exception when you are a new mom or sick you have to be in nighty or which makes you comfortable. First 1 and half month I was in loose nighty but afterwards I changed my wardrobe. I picked up only 5 clothes to wear at home (minimalism 😇) and wear it by styling differently. So

Basically what do you need ?

A set of loose cotton t shirt - ( for feeding )

A set of bottoms leggings, track pants, plazzo, patiala, jeans, straight pants ( anything as per your choice )

A pair of night suits

A set of tops

Shorts /skirts

Kurti long /short

Frocks/ one piece

That's it!

Choices are yours. Make sure your clothes should be comfy and makes you happy🙂.

Sharing some of my mom uniforms 😀yes, I called them Mom uniforms because they are rescue for everyday life. These are according to my comfort and budget too. Might be many of you have the same.

Night suit but bottom can be used with tops or t-shirts.

Most of us think we have to cook, clean up and handling kids, then why the hell to wear a nice clothes when they are going to be dirty. I am a mom of twin babies and one 9 year old. I am used to do lots of things single handly without any help. But dressing yourself really make a lot of change. It change your mental state and makes you happy.

Every woman /mom likes to look stylish and classy right ,

1. So change your wardrobe according to the season of your life and actual season.

2. Be minimalist because you have to handle clothing of a whole family which might be overwhelmed😇😐.

3. Keep only those clothes which you really like to wear.

4. Make sure to have elegant hair cut which you tie quickly. I mostly stay in bun because my kiddo keep on pulling my hair😑

5. Have a basic make up : Moisture must must and the bindi if you like to have.

Thats it. You are rocking mom!

Disclaimer : I am not stylish by profession. I am minimalism mom and a happy (mostly) mom. Sharing my experience which might helpful to many of you.

Feel free to share your go to mom uniforms.

This blog post is part of the blog challenge ‘Blogaberry Dazzle’ hosted by Cindy D’Silva and Noor Anand Chawla.

First Diwali of my twins

Diwali is always close to my heart. I love this festival which bring happiness, lights and joyy! My happiness with my kids is increased four times now😍. Special diwali dated 24 October 2022!

Love to do cleaning specially deep cleaning every corner of my house, Shopping till the last day, diya paintings, preparing sweets for my family and making ready to my kids. It is the most difficult task to make ready these 3 girls but I enjoyed it😉

I am a family person and love to be surrounded by family. But due to many issue this year I am not going to my father's house for Bhaubeej 😒 video calls makes it easier. Greatful to the technology.

This time we have new member in our family and they are my twins😍❣️And this was our first diwali with my twins. They are 9 months old now, big enough - crossing these months not an easy task but yes, we crossed it happily with lots of stress - (Real life😐). After all this is my family and I wanted to have so I am really happy and blessed to have a lovely family. Sharing some diwali glimpse.

We both never ever thought to have a such big family. My mother's blessing ! 🙏🏻

My valuable asset!☺

My pride, my saee❤

After so much cry we finally able to click to this little dolly.

Managed to drew this small and simple rangoli.

After a long time click a photo. 😇

And yes how can we forget the sweets 😉 FARAL.

And on this sweet note signing off.

Hope you like our diwali pics. Yes I know tradition is to keep it on whats app status when they are fresh. But this is our personal space - Memory Flies which stores lots of sweet memories.

Still thank you for stopping by!

With Love

Neeta

PS : All pics belong to MemoryFlies. Do not use it for any purpose without permission.

How to clean your house for Diwali

Diwali is the festival where we clean each and every corner of the house. Cleaning is tidious job. But every one love to have clean and shiny room. It is easier to have a cleaning but difficult task is to maintain.😀With twin baby it is quite difficult for me to clean each corner of my house but I have lower down my standards of cleaning😜

According to the current state of my life I am happy as much as I can do. So here are the tips which I generally follow. Not for only diwali but for a seasonal deep Cleaning.

Pic Source : Pixababy

Disclaimer : I am sharing my experience which might be helpful to you. This post is for them who are busy, have baby and do not able to clean up in one week.

Sharing some simple tips for stress free cleaning. And you will not going to ended up with any doctor visits😑 (generally people fall sicks after cleaning). I know, I am quite late for this post, but never mind !

Let's start the post.

1. Break the task into little chunks :

Instead of doing everything in one day try to divide the work in small chunks. This will not makes you tired and yes you will be not fall sick due to dust.

2. Start early at least 1 month before:

If you are doing this deep cleaning particularly for any festival then start early at least before 1 month.

3. 30 minutes rule :

Give 30 minutes only to clean up. This is my go to rule. Trust me it work best when you have little kids and your day is packed with so many to do list. While deep cleaning when you break the task in chunks then try to finish that small task in 30 minutes. 30 minutes is the minimum time. You may increase it but make sure you have to complete that particular task only. I ended up with other things if I do not allow myself to finish in 30 minutes.

4. Always clean your kitchen first:

Yes, kitchen is the most difficult to clean up. Oily, greesy kitchen takes a lot of time for clean up. It will motivate us when we have clean kitchen.

5. Give yourself a treat on completion of the particular room. Like an ice cream, cold coffee, cupcake or pizza anything which you like. 😜 Treat to banata hain na boss!

Now the question is how to start ?

Not to worry ! I am also a lazy person, so sharing the easiest way of cleaning which is working for me from last 5 years.

Assign one week per room and pick up the time as per your convince.

Week 1 : Kitchen

Monday:

Clean all containers, utensil which you use less frequently.

Tuesday :

Clean fridge. Declutter sauce, packet food which is not in good condition or expired. Clean and wipe fridge.

Wednesday :

Clean trolley if you have. If you have stand like utensil stand, pantry stand, cup stand, clean everything. Declutter the utensils like cup, spoon, dish, bowls, etc which you are not using. Clean decorations if you have any.

Thursday :

Clean tiles, sockets, curtain and curtain stand, walls, kitchen towels, rugs, scrubs which we use specially for cleaning. Make sure to have a separate scrub for daily dish washing and for monthly cleaning.

Friday : Wipes all upper surfaces of kitchen cabinets. Clean kitchen platform and sink. And complete any leftover work from Monday. Because we give only 30 to 60 minutes for the cleaning.

Saturday : You have sparkle clean kitchen. Prepare some snack and enjoy movie time at home with your partner.😊

Week 2 : BEDROOMS

Monday :

Clean walls, upper surface of wardrobe, and fan. Wipe doors and windows.

Tuesday :

Clean wardrobe and declutter clothes, bags, belts etc. Allow 30 to 60 minutes maximum.

Wednesday :

Clean your purse, small bedside drawers, junk drawers. Clean curtains, bedsheets and blankets.

Thursday :

Clean dressing table and study table. Declutter expired make up materials and old books, pens, colors and craft material.

Friday : Clean kids wardrobe.

Saturday :

You have clean bedrooms. Take help of your kids to clean up their things. Give an ice cream treat to yourself and kids too. 😜

Week 3 : Living Room

Monday :

Clean and wipes walls, fan , lights, curtains, door and windows.

Tuesday :

Clean book shelf and toy cupboard. Declutter and organize in simple way so that each thing can be accessible to kids.

Wednesday :

Clean TV unit and shoe racks. Declutter if any unnecessary things taking space over there.

Thursday :

Clean dining table and crockery unit. Declutter the broken crockery which you still keep only because of emotions.

Friday :

Deep clean bathroom and toilets if needed a deep cleaning.

I generally don't need to do any deep clean of bathrooms because I am having a habit to deep clean on every Monday.

Plus have a habit to clean trash cans twice in a week.

Saturday : Yeeaa! You have clean home. Now it is time for Diwali shopping. Enjoy 😜

You can do it as per your comfort level. Finish task in 2 days or in a week. This is the way where you can deep clean each corner of your house neatly without rush and stress.

Week 4 : Start your diwali sweet preparations.

We used to prepare our diwali sweet with whole family. In the same way ask your kids and husband to help you in sweet preparations.

Hussshhhh!! The biggest diwali saafsafai is finally done. ☺☺ Enjoy your diwali with your family and friends.

Wishing you all Happy Diwali in advance.

Comment below how do you clean your house? You do it by yourself ? Or by Urban clap people 😁?

This blog post is part of the blog challenge ‘Blogaberry Dazzle’ hosted by Cindy D’Silva and Noor Anand Chawla in collaboration with Baked Happily Ever After.

My diaper experience

Many times I have been told do not use diapers it is not good, Meanwhile me, yes ! I know it.

But with twins there is no other way. Everything you have to do double. You have one potty but I have two at a single time. And in a day it might be 12 times😁 so what do you think ?

Diapers specially disposable makes mommy's life little bit easier. Can have some kind of mental peace and for me physical too😇 where you do not want to clean the panties or clothes multiple times. And the floor mess is another headache. So I always prefer a rule :

"Eikave janache karave manache " - (means ) - Listen everyone, but prefer to do what your heart say!

There are some mommies who also ask me several questions on diaper. I am using diapers for my babies from 9 months. Fact I did not use diapers for my first daughters😊. So, here I am sharing my diaper experience. You may get the answer for your queries. So let's start the post.

Q. Disposable diapers are good for baby ?

Ans: No. Disposable diapers are not good for babies. They contain chemical which is harmful to baby's delicate skin.

But, if you use it cautiously it will not going to harm.

Q. Can we use diapers for new born?

Ans : Yes, Doctors advise to use diapers. ( in hospital stay only).

Q. How to choose disposable diaper?

A: Disposable diapers came with every size on the basis of baby weight. Choose the diaper according to your baby weight. It will fit exactly. Always remember diaper should not be too tight nor be too loose.

Q. Is there different type of diaper for girls and boys?

A : Nowdays we get unisex diaper. Choose these so that anyone boy baby or girl baby can wear it.

I am using the above one. These are best diapers for my babies.

Q. How to wear diaper to baby?

A : On every diapers there are written instructions with pictures. You can check the front side and back side - written on the diaper. Use that pictorial information and wear it.

Put your baby on dry sheet so that potty or urine will not make bedsheets dirty. Pick the leg slightly up and insert diaper as you wear a panty.

Q. What kind of precautions should we take while using a diapers?

A : Put the diaper on clean and dry area.

Put coconut oil or Vaseline before every new diaper. Keep your baby diaper free almost for the hour. That area should also get air and sunlight.

Q. How much time we should keep the baby in diapers?

A : As much as possible keep your baby diaper free. Use diapers which can absorb 12 hours. Put that kind of diaper at night time only. In a day time try to change it frequently. There is one line on diaper which indicate the sign of diaper change. Always check that.

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11 Memories of year 2022 #BlogChatterBlogHop

The Door bell -#BlogChatterBlogHop

French cheese toast sandwich

The Mom Uniforms

First Diwali of my twins

How to clean your house for Diwali

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