Limping back to normalcy

A long long hiatus from blogging..... and an equally long tale of woes!

First Vj travelled non stop, leaving me doing the night watchman duty all by myself. Which basically meant that sleeping, blogging, reading etc became distant memories of erstwhile days, given that the no. of times the boys wake up @night is directly proportional to the no. of days Vj is out of the country!! And this time, given that he was away for about 10 days, the creatures of the night were back with a vengeance!

Enter the virus! 

The day Vj returned was marked on my cell phone as "Sleep, blissful sleep". Alas, blissful sleep was not to be!!! The virus arrived that very day and took turns at taking each of us in its grasp - started with me, then moved on to the boys, then the maids... To ensure that our share of misfortunes was evenly distributed amongst the entire family and no individual was sidelined, Vj also had an accident, thankfully escaping unhurt!

What a traumatic week that was!!! Vedant was so sick that he stuck to me for 4 days like a leech, including at night when I had to sit up holding him while he slept. The fact that he didn't get to see much of his mommy, made little Vihaan so mad, that at every chance he got, he beat up his brother or when he saw me, he started a bout of fake cough to get my attention! (Yes, Vihaan is already a master manipulator and an actor par excellence!). 

To add to it, each day was spent in soothing never-ending howls and wails, endless hours spent first making a variety of meals to tempt the boys and then cajoling each cranky little one to eat a meal, in being covered in projectile vomit at the end of each meal. Even the most basic of needs like a meal or a leisurely shower took a backseat as I went through crash courses in Patience 1o1, Patience 1o2 and Advanced Patience! Little wonder then that now, when the boys seem to recover from the virus, it has found a completely exhausted and broken down victim, me, to torture yet again! 

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So now that the little angels (?) seem to be back to destroying household artefacts, killing plants, eating books and their meals seem to be staying in their little tummies rather than on my clothes, I am finally dragging my virus ravaged body back to my laptop to continue back where I started, hoping to be more regular this time and praying that for now, the weeks ahead be filled with the boredom of domesticity!!! And some sleep, blissful sleep........