On Dec 16, my marriage turned a year old. It was as if just the other day, my fiance and I had entered wedlock, gotten over all that madness and tension, and gone on our Goa trip. It was as if just the other day, we stepped into this rented home that made me fall in love with it instantly.
A neighbour shares her birthday with my wedding day, and for us bunch who've gotten along like a house on fire, it meant double celebration! Despite a work day with loads of work my husband arrived early (extremely early by Mumbai standards - 6 pm), we had our share of celebration...my neighbour who got to cut her cake! Gifts being showered by other neighbours...something I did not expect for a wedding day!
There is something about gifts that makes one squirm or jump in joy! I have written in an earlier post (see the Weddings label) about them too.
A couple of gifts that we received just floored us! The first one, a lovely drawing of a couple on paper by my neighbour's daughter Pooja. She would have spent a neat hour at the piece. It's not like the couple had perfect faces or that it would have fetched a medal. But the sheer effort on her part to sit down and draw it out to show she cared...!! My husband fell for it so much that he declared he wanted to frame it and hang the picture on the wall! Pooja is surely elated and has gone ahead with such drawings for other occasions of family friends!!!
Another was a greeting card! Just a card? You would say! In this era of email invites, ecards, sms greetings and online gifting, we got this cute card from my parents and sister...a surprise considering they wished us on the phone anyways. But that they made that effort to post it on time, hoping it would reach us on time! Old fashioned....right? But old is gold...it's nostalgic! This card reminded me of how I received love wrapped in an envelope every birthday!
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