Saturday, July 31, 2021

The “Leaving the nest” Saga - Ajey's

Writen on July 30th

Pandemic has changed so many “routine, regular and usual” experiences in life and Pandeys are no exception. But today we all took one step forward towards something normal. It is exciting and scary at the same time.

The first born graduated and got a job in the city. At that point living at home seemed the right thing considering we have two train stations in our town. The idea was to do what is best for “now” and figure out things a little later. The new year was supposed to bring new beginnings. A wedding in the family changed the plan entirely . Our India trip took over the whole plan. By the time we got back in mid Jan, the winter, India trip hangover and jetlag took some time and then Covid changed everything. We all, like everyone else, hunkered down and put everything on hold and just stayed home. I think like all of you we were home together 24/7. We laughed, enjoyed, argued, ate, drank, complained, watched TV, cooked together and had fun. Nothing was a straight line, it was all curvy and filled with emotions.

Things seemed pretty okay after vaccination and slowly we started to venture into the normal. In early July 2021 Ajey finally decided to look into moving out options and the kid got what he wanted in the first weekend he started to look. He had a check list and the first apartment he saw worked for him. I didn’t like the idea of “getting the first one he saw..” I would have looked more. But like his dad he is neither an explorer nor a researcher. 

Long story short - last one week we had multiple boxes sitting in the living room and things were coming in. The list, packing, shopping, wrapping and arguing too was going on :) Finally yesterday the “kid” got the key and today we moved his stuff, WiFi got hooked up and we got him home for dinner. Mom made special fish, dad made chicken and served the scotch. Anand decided not be a part of the celebration and stayed with his show on the living room TV. But again this evening was about his brother so the 3 of us adults sat on the deck and had our farewell dinner.

Anand picked the restaurant for the lunch tomorrow and that is a good enough contribution to the celebration and the send off. 

The kid is sleeping in his room at home tonight, the home he grew in, tomorrow we will all go have lunch in his neighborhood and leave our kid to be the “man” he aspires to be in his pad.

We gave him wings and dreams and I know he is ready to soar.  The mom is doing good knowing it is going to be wonderful.












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