I am just back from a fun filled trip home. I had a very hectic last month, will spare you the details, probably, for another post. Although we went to J~’s native, I like it calling MY home (which is true in a way). Since this was my 1st Diwali after my marriage, everyone back home (and me too) was eagerly waiting for this. We reached home a week before Diwali and left the next day of Diwali, so had plenty of time to spend there. I relished on a lot of mouth-watering chaats there almost every day! 
(Justification being - we cannot get the same ones here in Bangalore 
) I shopped a lot, gobbled homemade sweets made by my MIL, did a lot of masti with Didi-Jiju(J~’s elder sister and BIL) and their daughter little N(I am really fond of them. Both Didi & Jiju are really chilled out, so the equation we share is not like that of a typical household wherein you are not really free in front of your in-laws, while mine are superb. The best thing about them is the feeling of belongingness they make you feel. Ever since I got married I have never felt that these are the new relations of my life, I feel that I have known them for ages. Same goes for my MIL and FIL as well & I thank God from the bottom of my heart for getting me married into such a beautiful family). I also visited my MIL’s native which is a small town, some 80 kms from home. There, I met a lot of relatives of mine and got pampered a lot there & and in the whole trip as well
Coming back to Diwali, I along with K (J~’s younger sister, who is again one chilled out lass) shopped for Diyas and Rangolis for Diwali. K made a beautiful & colourful rangoli of Swastika.
Since J~(& eventually me) belong to Arya Samaj, the basic rituals which are followed at my parents’ place & here were quite different. Since Arya Samaj does not preach idol worship, this was my first Diwali which went without laxmi pujan, instead we did havan in the evening (which I loved and I plan to do it all by myself someday!) I have attended havans before but a few extra things were done since this was my first marital year.
In the evening, everyone changed to their new clothes. I love to wear sari occasionally and I am always looking forward to wear one, so what better excuse to wear a sari than Diwali. So I wore a heavy green coloured sari (with the help of my MIL ) along with which I wore some of my wedding jewellery
Me and J~ started for our relatives’ place but ended up in a restaurant to gobble something. (Which we found after a lot of searching since the whole city was closed because of Diwali). After returning home, we started bursting crackers with little N. It was fun but I found it a little odd bursting crackers in a sari 
. Finally, we relished the mouth watering kheer made by MIL.
All in all, a wonderful Diwali celebration. 10 on 10 for my first Diwali after marriage
2 comments:
Must say you are improving with each and every post you write.. Keep it up!!
@Amrita : Thanks Sweety :)
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