A's Blend Of Emotions

It’s just hard/impossible to break “habits”, Be it nail-biting..or just thinking of you.

About a decade ago, I documented some of the cutest moments with my niece as she began "talking". Here's one documenting little A's first set of words (was in my blog draft months ago) and sentences (going live). As you read this, you should imagine a DISTINGUISHED toastmaster telling you all this with perfect hand gestures, facial expressions and voice modulations.  Yes, you will soon acknowledge that "this will soon be added to the official thesaurus.. yes a language under construction indeed) Bik (book) Bear, where r is sort of silent Bike GG Puppy (GG is how he calls our (all) puppy) Tea Kaapi Blue green Tee tree  Chokch (Socks) Choo (Shoe) Baa gg (Bag) Keen keen (Clean clean) Kai (In English: hand) Ummmah, kissy (A kiss it is) Tchoon (Spoon) Thappaa (in English: WRONG) Pizza (Sure, you get that right) Cheese  Ati (to cover him with a blanket) Adih (for those who know me, it will make sense) Wassa name (what is yo...

Motto: "Jill of all trades, perfectionist at all trades" Reality: Mess = Perfectionist + Mom Life can't get any more tangled if you're a perfectionist AND you have toddler(s) (ranging from 2 years to 33, you get it) and a four-legged daughter. What happens.. (note, use a logical AND for the following use-cases) When you see UNREAD emails in your work inbox, a gitlab stager that FAILs, a merge request that's pending, a scientific QC tool throwing exceptions, a couple of incomplete abstracts, a conference call..... a ticking clock, a drowsy look and a world that thinks you're "just" working from home. When your stomach is grumbling and you have a hungry family to feed, When you have a toddler who is walking, running, biking starting 10 months of age, When you're germaphobic, When you HAVE to clean the 1800sqft house twice every day (A toddler, A 4-legged , An allergic-and-athletic husband, an impaired (aka PERFECTly flawed wife) Wh...