Sorry I don't know what I am doing with the pictures. This is the front of the house before we moved in. This was the first time we saw the house. Does not look like India!
Today I decided to start a blog site.
I have been married to my husband, Bill for 31 years. I must love him to quit a job I loved and move half way around the world and away from my family for him. I am the mother of three wonderful young men. Nicholas, 30, just married the love of his life, Juliana, on March 1, 2008. He works for Halliburton and enjoys his job every much. Juliana is a nurse in the Intensive Care Unit .They have purchased land not for from our home in Mississippi and plan to build a house one day there. They are currently living in our home in Mississippi. Brendon, 28, is an Assistant District Attorney. He lives next door to my parents and takes good care of my baby, Rivers and Brinkley. Ryan, 24, is a recent graduate of the Masters of Political Science Department of Mississippi State. He has just gotten his first "big" boy job working for the Victory Party of Alabama. He is in the process of moving to Alabama.
I have had many fun and frustrating moments here in India and really wanted (needed) to share with people. We have been living here in Ahmedabad, India for about 15 months. It was difficult at first but has settled down to a near hard now. I am learning to do things I think that my grandmother did. I have learned to clean a fresh chicken----although I have never had to de-head one I have had to clean fresh corn out of it-----gross. I can make my own cornmeal (no not from the corn in the chickens) and have learned to cook with plain flour instead of the convenience of self-rising flour (or as they say here self-raising flour and not easy to find).
People ask how I spend my day----- well it is very laid back now. I get up take my coffee and computer outside (one of the hardships here ---- no good Internet ---because we live on the wrong side of the highway!!!!!) check my email, im my boys and read all the news and sports from the US. I feed the various animals that we might have visiting at the time. Most days it is just peacocks and chipmunks but occasionally we have monkeys to visit. I will post pictures later. My house help ( Sophia and Arun) arrive around 9:30. We talk about what we need to do for the day. I will lay out the things for supper and Sophia will "clean" them for me and place in the refrigerator for later cooking. Some days I will meet a friend for lunch and shop but most days I like to stay at home and read, scrapbook browse the Internet. I try to go the gym around 3 to workout. I have a personal trainer, Bhakti, who is also a good friend. I love the gym here. I never had time or took time in the US to go to the gym regularly. The people are so nice and really make the time go by fast. I hardly ever notice the time when I am there. Yeah right ---just can't wait to end the pain. HA After the gym I run a few errands and home to fix supper. Bill gets home from the office usually around 5:15 . We have become like Indian ---we usually eat late. Not the normal for us because we usually eat around 6-7 in the US now it is 8-9 before we eat. Not good for the weight. Oh well that is why I go to the gym. So that is the typical day in the life of an American Indian housewife.
People here have a five minute rule every time you go somewhere they say I can have it in five minutes. Waiting for food, waiting to have haircut, manicure/pedicure everything five minutes please.
Getting back to the five minute rule----the other day as we were going down the highway (no I do not drive. We have a driver, Stephen.) I noticed a man (pulling into our lane) stick his hand out the window and hold up five fingers and closed them and reopened them. I ask Stephen what does that mean. It means he will go first and in five minutes I can come. The rules of the road!!!! HA
