The brother gave me this for bhai dooj. In case you were wondering where I’ve been…...I’ve been busy trying to find stuff to fill up it’s 80G memory!!
Anyway, hope you had a great Diwali. Mine was great as usual. We did have some snags but nothing a little holiday cheer can’t fix.
Every year we host a Diwali party in an attempt to recreate some of the Diwali magic, that we desis abroad miss so dearly. The first year hosted the party, I made at least five traditional maharashtrian ‘faral’ items, drew rangoli, lighted small lamps, the works! On the day of the party, I cooked up a dinner feast, which included three poha items that my mom makes for Diwali. Friends came over to help with the faral items. We had a blast! The following year, I had no help so I made 3-4 faral items and replaced a coupe of dinner items with catered items. You can guess where this is going. Fast foward to this year.... the plan was to replace everything with store bought items! My friend had told me about this wonderful place in New Jersey who make and ship traditional Diwali ‘Faral’. So I ordered stuff from them three weeks in advance and I ordered dinner food from a local lady. Since I could not find rangoli anywhere I made a design with flowers outside our front door. The lights were strung up, the firecrackers were bought(Georgia now allows fireworks! ), the day of the party arrived but there was no sign of the ‘faral’. A number of frantic calls to the caterers did not yield anything, not even an apology! We ended up running from one Indian store to another to find stuff to replace the items. Everything turned out great in the end. Everyone looked lovely in their traditional finery, especially the kids! Apple just loved the fireworks, she did not want them to end.
Now that Diwali is over and everyone is back to their daily grind, I need to get back to my new toy. You may not see me blogging until my fascination with my toy dies but I’ll definitely visit your blogs.
Oh did I mention I got an ipod for Diwali? 80G baby!
