Festive season

This weekend is a festive one in the house. First Varalakshmi Nombu/pooja was celebrated by the girls and ladies in the house Friday evening. The house was standing room only and the food (all taken care of by MIL and San) was yummy!

The girls dressed up in their last set of new clothes and posed for me as usual.

Today was Aavaniavittam aka thread ceremony, which comes with some more yummy food for me. Considering this is the one festival for the men in the house (man in our case) the ladies were kind enough to cook new goodies today!

Yoga was bunked because of all the over eating and that was a double whammy. Tomorrow will be a day of yoga and meditation. There is a 1008 Gayathri mantras to be done and some hot yoga to go with it...

Another year has rolled by and we enter the festive season !

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Varalakshmi Vratham (pooja)

Today was Varalakshmi pooja.(see previous posts from 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008. Even this blog feels old now!

We had a nice evening at home with friends and family.

This being a function for the ladies, the girls were ecstatic as usual. Multiple dress changes, good food, chit chat , (daddy learning about a few new iPhone apps from his friends).. all said and done a great time!

Here is the defining photo for this year's function

En raaasaaaathiiis..

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