Netflix new AD

 Netflix, probably read my previous post and got concerned and send a message for me;)
I wish i could say i never had a conversation similar to this.
LOL!! 

food for talk

 Dinner table conversations are not as old fashion as we think, they give structure and routine for kids to thrive in family life and make memories of their own.

My husband is a man of few words, forget about sentences from him, so I always start the conversation, and I am the one who is the victim of their lack of  participation, not answering what i ask or wanted to eat while watching TV or total silence.

I tried a lot of ways to make this family communicate,
my son participated when i ask questions like
how was your day?
what is your favorite thing about today? 
what is your worst thing about today?
what are you thankful of?
but my daughter thinks they are boring and I am asking the same questions everyday over and over! and i should stop!
so i had enough of this torture with silence at dinner table from these family members for months and started looking for other ways and finally found and bought the food for talk cards!!!







Now they want to keep on sitting and talk, we don't know until now the man of the house has so many shades hiding beneath his silence (my husband), i found out my daughter (15 now) knows wide range of topics and a wise young lady and she is interested to TALK WITH US NOW! my son (8 now) is such a joker and dreamer!
we can't wait to pickup the card and start the dinner every night and getting to know each other!!
   i am proud of myself that i didn't give up and the box is sitting in the middle of the table now as a miracle worker.

Great idea and a lovely find.

{written by me, photo from amazon.com}

Ramayana

Years back i wrote a post about a lovely find 

that is a children's book called

The little book of Hindu deities

same author Sanjay patel adapted and painstakingly illustrated this 2500 year old story Called Ramayana!!

 

 visually stunning, brilliant colors, a fun way to read and tell an epic story for younger ones.
My son got so exited when i show him the book and 
I fell in love with the Illustrations and details and colors!!
while i am reading this book to my son, he is so engaged and if I get distracted and started marveling at the Illustrations, he keep on reminded me to turn the page that he wanted to know what next:) and we can't wait to finish the entire story!!

{pictures from ghee happy}

Korean Drama mama 2012-13!!!

 "Drama" is not in my favorite genre of entertainment. I want every entertainment form end in 2-3 hours period so i can move on to daily life with out hooking to it.

big fan of Netflix and covered almost all the documentaries and movies in Chinese, French, Japanese, one day browsing for the new documentaries i stumble in to a title called Midas, viewers gave five stars and mistakenly thought it's a movie and clicked to watch and i don't know how one hour passed, i realized i am watching a 1st season of a drama and it has 21 episodes with one hour duration each!!

Midas is a suspense thriller, beautiful and awesome actors, brilliant screenplay, so hooked to it and forgot at one point that i am following captions, lost in to it!!

Midas

After 21 episodes of Midas, left it wanted more of it, having dreams about it, thinking about it i owed myself not to watch any more K-dramas and kept the promise for several months and Netflix keep recommending me another one and it is 62 episodes and I keep avoiding but in November started watching
The Great Queen Seondeok 

the guy on the left, Bidam (Kim Nam Gil) i am warning, if you have a sensitive heart, don't watch this he is going to twist your heart in his own terms. you left hopeless and heartless at the end. 
costumes are fab and acting is unbelievable.

My family noticed i am hopelessly in love with Bidam and they started teasing me and i am a new person in so many terms and my daughter and her friends know about my love affair with k-dramas! i called 2012 as Korean year! and announced that i am ending this love affair and not going back! end of January in 2013 my daughter came and announced, amma please don't angry at me but now i know why you are acting so nutty last year, i felt the same way now after watching two episodes of 
Bread, Love and Dreams

 
I am like Nooooooooooooooooo!! this is not happening in this year too! why god, what did i do for this awesome torture and shamelessly join her watching this drama with her! we ordered chinese food on Friday evening and weekend marathon started for 21 episodes ;)
this is not as intense as before because i am old for these boys but my teen daughter is having a hard time coping with this 
beautiful torture!
uh! life is so beautiful!!