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from Susan Narjala
Mama’s Modus Operandi
Mama’s Panic
When you wake up in a sweat at 2:34 am and realize you're out of clean uniforms for the kids.
Mama’s 'I’ve-Had-It'
When you're late for an appointment and the kids decide to put on their shoes in slow motion.
Mama’s Answer to Almost Everything
Have you tried going potty?
Mama's Vocation
Deciding who started it, whose turn it is, ...
Installing India – Phase 1
It's been two months since we've moved back to India. And life has been very different. (I've heard that's what happens when you move across the globe).
Start with routine things like, taking a shower. In the US that meant: taking a shower. Here, things get a little more complicated!
Let's take this evening, for instance. The kids needed to ...
When Opposites Say, “I Do”
As the husband and I celebrate our tenth anniversary, I doled out wise words (ahem) on marriage on indiaanya.com.
The hubbers and I are as different as they come. Not like apples-and-oranges different, or even Mars-and-Venus different . . . More like, he’s from Mars and I’m an apple (well, more of a pear when it comes ...
Don’t focus on the Potatoes and Potholes
So we wanted to get here.
After selling our house and our cars at the perfect point in time. After getting our US citizenship and all our crazy complicated Indian paperwork sorted. But before the school year started. With admission in the school we chose although they'd closed admissions for the year. While living in an apartment ...
Saying Goodbye To Your First Home
In a few days we'll be moving to India. 8197 miles away from what we currently call home.
We're excited about new adventures. We feel like it's a God thing and a good thing for our family.
And yet, every morning, I wake up in a tangle of emotions. Before my eyes open and my thoughts focus, my ...
Stepping Out
I was shopping at Target last week when I ran into a 3-year-old I teach at Sunday School. (She was with her mom, people. This isn’t an article on free-range versus helicopter parenting.)
Anyway, the adorable thing looked up at me and said with wonder, “Teacher, I didn’t know you lived here!”
She wasn’t too far off ...
When Things Are Out of (Your) Control
Humility is not the opposite of pride. It’s the opposite of anxiety.
You won’t find that definition in Webster’s, but that’s how God’s been speaking to me about it recently.
As a family, we’re planning a big move that we believe God has called us to. But along with that decision comes cartloads of uncertainties. I’ve been ...
Days of Yore
The countdown begins. Ten days left. 10, 9, 8, 7.... and KAPUT. The end of mamma's freedom.
The summer holidays will be upon us.
Mamas are scrambling to get things done before they have to drag whining, wriggling little people everywhere they go.
So, the next ten days I've crammed in dentist, eye and doc appointments with the regular schedule. ...
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