A Day with Bhalla's

Part 2

                       Ishitha woke up startled with the loud commotion from the living room, she checked her mobile phone for there are any missed calls from her clinic, and surprised to find few missed calls from her clinic and her phone on silent mode " ye Raman bhi na sudrogi nai," she thought to her self, how many times she has warned him not to keep her phone on silent mode, but every weekend this falls on deef ear. His argument is that as she gives all her weekdays to her patents and clinic, and he to his office, so weekends are strictly for family and masti time.

                          She was shocked to find that its already 10:30 in the morning and no one woke her up, she is even more surprised that she is sleeping this late for she is an early raiser , she did spoil a bit after becoming a Bhalla but 10:30 was never her time. What will Ruhi and Adi think that IshiMaa sleeps this late and she lectures us about the importance of early raising.

                          she woke up hurriedly, and ran to the washroom to get ready. While descending the stairs, Ishitha heard Rohit's loud squalls in delight, there she saw elder and younger generation of Bhalla family trying to cheer him up as he is missing mommy dearest , Mr.Bhalla was making some weird faces, Ruhi and Adi are holding him and trying to control their laughter , Mrs.Bhalla is checking the temperature of the his bottle, and Rohit is laughing away in glory on the on funny antics of grand father, Mr.Bhalla becomes altogether a new person in his grandchildren's company. Infants do have that magical aura around them she thought to herself. How much she missed the growing up years of Adi and Ruhi.

                     This silly banters of the family with her children, their cute antics, their first steps, their bonding with Raman and family. khir there is on point in crying over a spilled milk, "kya bhat hai ajj Rohit bada kush lagrahahai," she commented to the family letting her presence felt. As expected all the heads turned towards her. "IshiMaa," shouting Ruhi ran and hugged her, "ajj app bhahut late uti, main app se first hun , this is bad habit IshiMaa," Ishitha gave her a embarrassed smile, before she could replay to her "stupid Ruhi, papa ne kahatha na ki IshiMaa ki thabiyat teek nahi hai, isiliye IshiMaa rest karahithi," came their ever so mature First child's reply . The maturity level shown by Adi is way more then normal adolescent kid. He did behave like a spoilt brat in early days of her marriage but that was because of his insecurity towards his Father, materialistic love of his Mother and bad company of his fatherly figure Ashok. She can also understand that he is a bit skeptical about her love towards him, yes he did accept her as his mother after the ghastly event took place during the broken marriage of her sister-in-law. He thinks her love for Ruhi is way more then him. so he always comes in her defence when ever some one tries to accuse her. It was like he wants to compensate for all the bad he has done to her in the past. And she doesn't like it a bit because she do love him as much as she loves Ruhi. Ishitha wants him to behave like a normal adolescent son behaves, like throwing some tantrums here and there, but he does nothing of that sort, when she discussed the same with Raman, he just shrugged of the topic stating that he is just being a good boy don't over stress yourself.

                  "IshiMaa app teek hun,"Adi asked her again for not receiving any reply from her. "han beta main teek hun, bus thodasa pet karab hain, ab main bilkul teek hum, app chintha math karo," she replied him ruffling his hair. "nai Ishitha puttar tum dhikne main be kamjor lagrahi hun," Thoshi asked her daughter-in-law in concerned voice because she did look a bit weak, "nai mummyji main teek hun bus, kal raat thodisi ultiya huithi, dhavyi le li, ab main teek hun Raman bekar main tension lerahithi,bus tablets ki vajese thoda jadha soogayi," she tried to explain her mummyji the cause of her extra beauty sleep.

                          In all this discussion of Ishitha's health, they heard a loud wail from Rohit who seem to be not at all happy for he is not receiving his much needed attention . Ishitha reached her papaji to console her crying nephew ,Mr.Bhalla handed her his grandson and left to his room to get ready for weekly community meeting in their Mayur Vihar society. Which was held every week to discuss the betterment of their society. "bus bus mere bacha kyu ro rahihoon mumma ko missy missy karrahihun kya , yaa mere bhudhoor bacha boooki hain," she tried to pacify the crying child in her hand with her childish talk "ye dheko dhadhi ne app keliya garmaram dhood layi," she said showing the milk bottle in Thoshi's hands. Thoshi handed her the milk bottle, she started feeding him his morning dose of milk,but our little Ruhi is not at all happy that her IshiMaa is pampering some other kid other then her. Yes she do love her new found little brother, for she can show that Shravu ki bacha that there is a little kid in her house too with whom she can play 24*7, but sharing her IshiMaa with someone else is next to impossible. "IshiMaa muje bhi boook lagi hai," she whined patting her stomach and gaining her mother's attention. "kyu beta app breakfast nai kiya abhi thak," Ishitha asked Ruhi adjusting Rohit in her arms.