The first day of the year is always a blessed day for me and my family. It is a day we decided to take our relationship to the greater height, anticipating the consequences it would flood. And precisely it is the day our Little Man arrived in our life with more hope, love and faith towards all. We are always grateful to God for such blessings throughout. Thank you God.
It is his 6th birthday and this year I have planned to do the puja only. Since I follow birthday rituals from my side it takes a longer time and great energy to perform puja. But the birthday boy had something else in his mindset, asked me to invite our relatives in Puja and few of his friends in the evening for birthday party. He had even requested his friends to stay little longer on the day. So we arranged things in one day, the day before Jan first. As he loves recycle, reuse and reduce, the lesson he has been receiving at his kindergarten schools and also at home, I made a simple 3D Dino, precisely T"-Rex" banner for this Dino fan using the bedsheet boards and colors. For the candles I used the reused Heinz tiny bottles and decorated with his art n craft stuffs and Dino stickers. He looked very happy doing all these till midnight. His excitement was not letting him sleep very soon instead kept saying, "I wish it is already the dawn so that evening come soon and so my friends."
Finally, the morning sunshine hits and here is what my LM's reaction on what he found the room is that he left it before sleeping. He was astonished seeing everything and excitingly hugged me and thanked for the first ever gift of the year. I know he is a very very grateful boy. He knows to appreciate things and that day he had this kind word "thank you" in every few minutes. Even the birthday cards which has become the ritual we do every year. Like previous years, we thought he would just read it and leave on the table saying thank you. But it's different this year. He read aloud every single words on the card and thanked us for everything we do for him. We forgot he is now a grown up boy as he says and we forgot he reads words or sentences and keep asking until he understands.
In the evening there is a small birthday party for his peers in the floor. It lasts just in 2 hours, from cake cutting to art, dance, sing and all. The little ones have school next day so had to make it short. At the end of the day, before going to bed, this LM of mine came to me and hugged me and thanked me from look of the room in the morning to candles decorated for evening, from his morning puja to the guests invited and from treats to his friends to the goodies for them.
Lastly, we thanked him for being a kind boy he is and wished him one more time and said good night. He has miles to go ahead with the beginning of a new day, a new year.
It is his 6th birthday and this year I have planned to do the puja only. Since I follow birthday rituals from my side it takes a longer time and great energy to perform puja. But the birthday boy had something else in his mindset, asked me to invite our relatives in Puja and few of his friends in the evening for birthday party. He had even requested his friends to stay little longer on the day. So we arranged things in one day, the day before Jan first. As he loves recycle, reuse and reduce, the lesson he has been receiving at his kindergarten schools and also at home, I made a simple 3D Dino, precisely T"-Rex" banner for this Dino fan using the bedsheet boards and colors. For the candles I used the reused Heinz tiny bottles and decorated with his art n craft stuffs and Dino stickers. He looked very happy doing all these till midnight. His excitement was not letting him sleep very soon instead kept saying, "I wish it is already the dawn so that evening come soon and so my friends."
Finally, the morning sunshine hits and here is what my LM's reaction on what he found the room is that he left it before sleeping. He was astonished seeing everything and excitingly hugged me and thanked for the first ever gift of the year. I know he is a very very grateful boy. He knows to appreciate things and that day he had this kind word "thank you" in every few minutes. Even the birthday cards which has become the ritual we do every year. Like previous years, we thought he would just read it and leave on the table saying thank you. But it's different this year. He read aloud every single words on the card and thanked us for everything we do for him. We forgot he is now a grown up boy as he says and we forgot he reads words or sentences and keep asking until he understands.
In the evening there is a small birthday party for his peers in the floor. It lasts just in 2 hours, from cake cutting to art, dance, sing and all. The little ones have school next day so had to make it short. At the end of the day, before going to bed, this LM of mine came to me and hugged me and thanked me from look of the room in the morning to candles decorated for evening, from his morning puja to the guests invited and from treats to his friends to the goodies for them.
Lastly, we thanked him for being a kind boy he is and wished him one more time and said good night. He has miles to go ahead with the beginning of a new day, a new year.
