Maybe third post's a charm

Couple of months have gone by and yet no time to blog or excuses excuses. So here I am trying again. I was reading another blog post about birthdays and thought would write something down.

But first, a little more about me. These days I have been feeling well ..umm kind of down. First of all I feel like I should work harder, et al so I can give Baby A a better quality of life. Yet last year in Sept I took a sort of hit ( not money-wise but defn career-wise) so I could stop travelling and hence spend more time with Baby A. S is also finishing school this year and switching careers requiring him to work long hours in NYC so i figured this was the best. I loved coming home after a wonderfully satisfying day at work and take Baby A to the slide, cook , eat dinner and do the other routine mommy things. Yet I have been a workaholic all my life. I get bored easily when there isnt too much work. One of my projects I work ended and the other project I am managing is slow, so there is maybe enough work to fill 4 hours in a day for me.

This is borrrrring. I am tired of asking for more work - and I think because I am a hired gun ( consultant), they are not giving me more work so can get rid of me when contract is up. This worries me because this work was a perfect work-life balance , only thing is now the work is lesser and lesser. Anyways enough whining.

So this weekend, I went for a bday party for a two year old. The typical crowd there was mostly early thirties couples, most without kids and most husbands in the investment banking/hedge fund category. It was funny to see the competiti-moms - my son can do this and your daughter cannot do this blah blah. Also interesting was the the bling from new money ( aka hedge fund bonuses). But the most interesting observation I had was that in most parties thrown by Indians, atleast some people choose to dress in Indian outfits. Yet this time around everyone was all hip and modern. I wonder if its an attempt to assimilate. I would think there should be diversity and you would be proud to wear your Indian clothes. But maybe the casual look is much cooler. Not sure. Or is it a difference between suburbanites and city-dwellers.

Finally closing note - there were a lot of moms who were all slim and fit at the party and very careful not to eat the cake since its sugar laden. I was impressed at the same time dismayed with some of them when they didnt know if their child had eaten or not because they were too busy working out before the party. How do some mom's who have 3 kids, great careers manage to still look so good, whereas some of us just manage to pull through with 1 kid ? I wonder..