As the schools started this month, a lot of out-of-school kids' activities have taken off as well. Our kids don’t even go to school yet, but that hasn’t stopped them from participating in these other activities. Last Saturday, Ashwini started going to a ballet class. After two sessions, she is happy with the things that she is learning there. I think part of the excitement has to do with the ‘required attire’ for the class.

Both of them go to swimming classes: Ashwini on Wednesday evening and Adit on Saturday morning. For Adit, it is “parent-child water exploration” class. I went in the water with him to just splash around and to sing some songs, etc to get used to being in water. He didn’t get scared like some other kids and had a blast even though the water was cold. I used to take Ashwini to a similar class, two years ago, and she had liked it as well. Now, she is in a class where parents don’t go in the pool with kids. Teachers teach them swimming while parents watch from the benches.

I can’t imagine how our lives are going to change and revolve even more around the kids as they grow up and start participating in even more activities outside of school, taking up evening and weekend hours. Joys of parenthood, eh?! It will be fun, I guess. We’ll see.