House-Hunting

I think this is the outdoor view of our favorite apartment so far--Anand Loc.

Groovy window at entrance of Anand Loc house.

Anand Loc landlord. He spoke very good English (unlike some others) and seemed like he would be very responsive to us.

Terrace in front of Vasant Vihar and Anjana, our relocation consultant.

Inside of Vasant Vihar house. It's old, but very open and light. This was the first one I could picture us living in--kids running around, playing outside, etc.

Bathroom of Vasant Vihar house. Yuck! The old gentleman landlord said he would clean them up. I hope he's telling the truth.

I loved the moulding and rounded entrances in this Vasant Vihar house. You could almost feel the old British Raj entertaining in this one.

School-Hunting

One of the classes at the Lotus Valley International School.

A really neat design in the school lobby made out of colored sand. When they get tired of it, I guess they just sweep it up!

Now the AMERICAN EMBASSY SCHOOL

Library at Embassy School. Better than the Leander Public Library, and it is public to Embassy School families.

This is one of the preschool classrooms at the Embassy school.

Preschool classroom at the Embassy School.

Schedule for kindergarten class

Playground at Embassy School.

Playground again.

Swimming pool at Embassy School. There's a lap pool, a diving pool, and kiddie pool. After school hours families can use the facilities.

The cafeteria. They were serving hot dogs, and they have ice cream cones every day!

Graham's Blessing

Graham's blessing party

Happy baby!

Graham, Dad & Grandpas blessing

Look-See Trip

Graham's mosquito-netted crib in our hotel room at the Intercontinental in Nehru Place (not Connaught Place, which we discovered the hard way when we first arrived late in the evening Wednesday night and drove all the way there in a taxi, only to discover we were on the wrong side of town!)

Getting over jetlag.

Trail Mix and Growing Up

I think I may actually be a real live adult now.

Why, you ask? Because when I eat trail mix now (and this is only in the last month or so), I eat it by the handful instead of picking out the best parts (the M&Ms, of course) and leaving the rest for later. The rest are usually just raisins and nuts, which I don't necessarily dislike. But why waste your time with nuts and raisins when you can eat M&Ms? Now when I take a handful and eat the M&Ms and nuts and raisins all at once, the mixture of the three is a whole new wonderful taste that I never got before because I was so busy picking out the "good" parts.

So, I guess that means I'm growing up a bit. I'm learning that I don't always have to be the best or have the best, and sometimes what I think is the absolute best thing or choice isn't really. I realize now that taking life by the handful with all of its ugliness, beauty, mediocrity, and wonders makes for a pretty tasty existence, especially when I don't get too hung up on classifying every bite. Actually living beats thinking too much about it.

And what do ya'll do differently now that you're growing up? I know we all are growing up (or getting old, however you want to see it!), whether we'd like to admit it or not!