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Wednesday, May 14, 2014

How intelligent Moms pack for a vacation !


Tomorrow my vacation starts (yay!) so this week is like an overstretched Friday. Like on Friday it’s the weekend so at work the laptop, unread emails and colleagues are all pushed to a secondary, insignificant place where the mode is set to ‘ignore’.  I did not mention ‘bosses’ in the above sentence because they are already in that place we don’t need to push them.

I am not a systematic person unlike both my parents. I pack in the eleventh hour and I’d been that way ever since….. err…ever since I had to pack myself. That is, around the time I got married. Thankfully till date I’ve never forgotten any important stuff like comb, eyeliner etc., but I admit that couple of times I did forget irrelevant stuff like e-ticket and passport. I don’t understand why my folks back home were so mad at me for driving back home to take those – they were acting so hysterical like I forgot my toothbrush or something.

Basically my house is in a complete mess right now. We have two bedrooms. The master bedroom, which is mostly maintained well with most of the things in place (don’t judge me; this is a major achievement in homes of toddlers) because this room is partially visible from the entrance. The other bedroom has a Queen Size mattress which is on the floor as cots are dangerous for my toddler who seems to ride roller coasters in his sleep. He usually sleeps next to me, but wakes up somewhere else we literally have to hunt for him in the morning under his Angry Birds pillow or under a pile of blankets. So for safety reasons we did not buy a cot for this room. There is also a computer table and chair. It is better for one’s mental and emotional health and peace to prevail in the house if the items on this table are untouched. Even my toddler understands this. Besides the bed and table there is also a wardrobe, and what is left of that room is a portion of floor that can accommodate two malnourished adults. This portion of the floor is the place where the suitcases currently rest, obviously with nothing in it, but it is opened so that we don’t forget to put something in it and go home tomorrow. So if I have to put the toddler to sleep in this mess it becomes a Herculean task to move these suitcases one by one, and the chair and other stuff we shopped for the family. Suppose I successfully navigate all these, something or the other catches the fancy of the toddler and sleeping becomes an impossible dream.

Even a bachelor's home on a Friday night may not be as messy as a home which has enthusiastic toddlers in it. Like the other day I found almost half a kilo pearl onions from the gap between sofa cushions, vegetables and fruits are found from places that we least expect it to be. There is no standard place to search for a TV remote. If there are children you search for TV remotes in shoe racks, the fridge, kitchen drawers, and washing machine, these being some likely places. So imagine packing in such a situation. When I pack, it is like demonstrating Newton’s third law of motion, because my action is met with an equal and opposite reaction– my toddler unpacks it. And the stuff that is unpacked needs to be hunted. For an absent minded Mamma like me, I may not even go to such lengths to find something I may just ignore it could be the key to open the suitcase or something.

This is why I pack in the last minute. At the last minute the hubby experiences temporary deafness due to the stress of packing his countless gadget accessories and power cables and the toddler will be busy choosing the toys he can’t live without. This is one of the few rare occurrences in our home when nobody is talking, and I can pack with a rational mindset.

I hope this explanation will be convincing enough to Papa who had been asking me to pack since New Year.

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14 comments:

  1. Malnourished adults hahahahaha.......forgetting toothbrush is worse than forgetting passport...hahahahaha...You woman are indeed a modern momma..and noone is complaining. Continue ur last minute packing love because the reason given in the last paragraph is totally justified.

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    1. Wow thank you Red ! I hope my folks at home read this comment ! :D

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  2. I don't know how you do it! I have the toughest time when I have to do anything in the last minute. Just reading your post made me anxious!!! Thank God I was not in the car when you forgot the passport - I am that annoying!! Lol!

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    1. Lol so you are the anxiety lady :D I am cool that way you know..as people around me know what to expect they are kinda cool too. Thanks for the Lol :D

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  3. So relate to this post.. especially the toothbrush part.. hehehe.. good one. :)

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  4. E-tickets and passports are overrated. ;)
    I have a decent mental picture of your home now. Wouldn't that be totally useless information, unless I put it into some use? Maybe, I should consider breaking into your place. ;)

    Happy vacations! :)

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    1. Totally Blunt. They are so overrated.
      Instead of breaking into my house I'd suggest you break into your own blog more often :D
      Buhahahahha

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  5. I’ll say that I’m a combo type. I am capable of forgetting both the passport & the toothbrush at the same time! Your post is so oozing ‘vacation spirit’ from in-between every line you’ve written in there…Loved it. Hope your vacation was long & you haven’t returned from it already…

    P.S - TV remote is currently missing @ home. Thanks for all those pointers ;)

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    1. Thanks Amogha ..and yeah we angelites are notoriously absent minded :D
      I am back from vacation ...sorry for the delayed response..

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