#debsaristories Pure georgette saree with benarasi brocade border with sequined crop top. Drove around to choose vineyard backdrop. #allindiassmeet Who said two women cant be besties?
Me: Ma, i am planning to work from home
Ma: excellent, we can watch a movie
Me: 🙄🙄🙄 Ma, I am not on pto. I need to work and have to attend meetings
Ma: get them done quickly, lets go for lunch together. long time no sushi!!
Me: I rest my case. 👭👭👭

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Me: Ma, come lets take a selfie
Ma: chinni, do you know to pout like Kareena Kapoor?
Me: no, i can try. Infact lets both try - Selfie done- I look like little piggy and ma has a ooh aah ouch pout! Less of pout, more iodex ad.
Ma: huh, we should practice more often. You have a lot to learn still.🤣🤣
Me: I rest my case. 👭👭👭

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Me: we should visit Hawaii one day!
Ma: yes and when we go i need to shop for shorts
Me: ma?!!!!!😱😱
Ma: you take your saris, i am gonna dress cool. Its Hawaii babe!🙌🙌
Me: I rest my case. 👭👭👭

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Perhaps Ma and I are the only mil-dil combo that hang out at Starbucks babe-watching and learning fashion lessons. I am proud of her pride in me, my education and encouraging in my career while I am proud of who she is and how elegantly and respectfully she carries herself and treats me likewise. Pics courtesy, Ma again! Clicked 75 and 3 of them survived.
Ma's photography strategy - its upto you to position yourself in the frame..else your head or hand could disappear.. oh! Sometimes you could completely disappear! That laughter is worth the effort !!! Life's about small things.
Like someone said, i indeed have a BFF at home in my motherinlaw. Of course It wasn't like this when we started. Rome isnt built in a day! We started off completely strangers to each other, our cultures background, languages, food, dressing ... everything. The common connection was the Deb saab. That anchored us to make each other priority too. We worked hard to gain trust confidence friendship eventually becoming confidantes. It takes time but not at all impossible! When you dont have insecurities and intentions that could hurt others, friendship is bound to blossom.

We choose to be more forgiving with some over others. When in marriage we are very tolerant with our spouses, even in rough situations we take every effort to patch up. We forget to extend it to parents and siblings of the couple. Both ways. Trust intentions to be good, sooner or later it will be. Its no competition or conflict of interest at all. No two roles are same even when played by the same person. I am different as a daughter, sister, wife, daughter in law, mom, friend, colleague etc.. so is everyone else. No relationship is always magical and happy ever after. There are always ups and downs how much ever besties you are, but thats when you need to remind why and how you started. If it was worth the start, its worth the effort to keep it up.

Never doubt.
Keep calm and saree on