Tuesday, May 22, 2007

Great Expectations

Oftentimes in life, what you expect in life is very different from what you come to accept.
What you expected (WYE): (on hearing hubby has a very mobile career) Lots of fun travelling and new places to see
What you've accepted (WYA): The 'yay' factor wears a bit thin when no sooner have you finished unpacking the last box and settled down for a cup of tea, than hubby breezes in to announce that we've got to pack up coz we're moving again!

WYE: New Places - new friends, new hang-outs...
WYA: New Places- New maid servants to break in or *shudder* no maid servants to break in.

WYE: ooh... expecting! Darling baby movements in you belly
WYA: Ooh! someone needs to tell that baby to stop stomping on my bladder

WYE: Smart baby
WYA: Smart baby using his brains for destructive purposes

WYE: (judging by our sizes) Chubby baby
WYA: baby that won't sit still long enough to become chubby

WYE: Me playing with baby and being fit enough to keep up with him
WYA: Baby running circles around me.

WYE: Me being super mom- having a neat house, clean baby and super chef, while I dazzle colleages at work with my keen business acumen
WYA: You won't die from eating slightly charred meals, you can work you way around the mess, and babies will become filthy exacly 4 .8 seconds after you've bathed them. And work? you think I have time for work after all this???

WYE: Blogs. Will read all blogs, post like there's no tomorrow, leave scintillating comments on others posts.
WYA: there's just barely enought time to publish in a post, without even bothering to run a spell check on it, before baby tries for the umpteenth time to burn the house down.

WYE: a good end to the post
WYA: To end is good enough.

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

awesome.... too good...

WYE: write a good witty comment
WYA: damn it!!! what to write?

Anonymous said...

LOL LOL LOL.....you've finally met your match (and more!) in our darling neffy-poo!

Anonymous said...

Hey!
This one kept me in splits :)))
Cheers :)

La vida Loca said...

A touching post... I can resonate with some of them.

Keshi said...

GREAT post! Nicely done :)

I dun expect much anymore..I just live in the moment. Cos nothing lasts forever anyways.

Keshi.

Unknown said...

iyer: with you, i though WYE and WYA are a pretty close match...

smithy: yeah. I blame evolution.

finetastes: thanks!

Loca: which ones?

Keshi: I hope what you're saying is true... it'll mean my son's destructive phase shall come to pass!!

La vida Loca said...

*****WYE: Blogs. Will read all blogs, post like there's no tomorrow, leave scintillating comments on others posts.
WYA: there's just barely enought time to publish in a post, without even bothering to run a spell check on it, before baby tries for the umpteenth time to burn the house down.

WYE: a good end to the post
WYA: To end is good enough*****

These two. :)
You actually have a maid in London??? ^ I is allll cunfused^

Unknown said...

loca: no no.. had a maid in Mumbai- two, in fact. Hence the training bit. in london no maid... hence the shudder!