Serendib Kids

Stopped at the Oak Park Conservatory on the way home from work and FINALLY got the contract set up for Kavi’s Sari Day sweet 16 party. Whew. They were having some weird glitch where all my e-mails to the event planning person just disappeared, and the person and I have been trying to sort this […]

Gave Anand a haircut, which Kavi felt the need to document; this photo in particular, she kept saying, “He looks so old! He looks like a teenager!” Well, he’s thirteen, so he is a teenager. She’s not yet reconciled to that, apparently.

Sometimes Anand contributes to the holiday decorating: chocolate coins and clementines. (He was very amused by my taking this photo…)

Kavi has had some friends having tough times this year, and she’s a pretty empathetic kid, and as a result she’s had tough times, and it’s all just hard, folks. Sometimes I want to wrap my kids up in blankets and just snuggle them for a few years. I told Kavi last night that I

Hey, South Asian peeps — I have a cultural question. You know how there’s a point when a young woman transitions from wearing a half-sari to a sari? Is there a name for that moment? I know there’s a whole set of rituals that go along with puberty and wearing the half-sari for the first

Remember Kavi was going to a party on a party bus this Saturday, and I was confused? Because she’s 14 (almost 15)? It made more sense when I learned that it was a quinceañera party (for the girl in the fabulous pink ball gown and tiara). (Editing to note: The birthday girl’s mom was on

Kavi has been invited to a birthday party that is apparently taking place on a party bus, and she needed a formal dress for it, so we did a quick run down to the mall at Cermak, where there are many affordable teen prom-type dresses at Windsor, and she found something she liked pretty quickly,