The magic nature box

Maya loved all things in nature.
She took a shoe box and covered in paper and called it her nature box
She collected a leaf and some twigs in her box.
That night she woke up suddenly. She heard sounds from her box! Roars and metallic clinks! She rushed to the box and opened it but nothing!
This was puzzling.
The next it happened again.
When she opened the box... nothing.
So the next day she made two small holes in the side of the box

At night the sounds started again. She walked quietly up to the box and peered in through the holes. What a sight met Her!
The leaf was now a dragon roaring and breathing fire.  The taller twig was now a stick man brandishing the smaller twig like a sword and they were in full battle. The little girl watched with her eyes wide open .
The man was about to slash the fore breathing dragon she gave a gasp. Both dragon and man turned. The man said... monster charge! And he rushed to the hole with his sword while the Dragon blew fire at the hole. The little girl pulled back just in time. The roaring and clashing continued all thru the night.

Next day she put in two pebbles in the box.
The sounds startes again at night. She peered in. Now there were two mountains. The dragon was hiding behind the mountains and breathing fire throigh the mountain pass. The knight was not able to get near the Dragon and they tried fighting. Saw the eyes charged
Next day she added a flower stalk and a sea shell. 
Flower stalk turned into a flying umbrella and the knight flew above the Dragon fighting it. The shell turned into a protective shield. Again they attacked.
She added a berry.
It turned into a sun.
What will she add next? What will it turninto

Moon walk

Beam shines right into room
We get up and walk up it

Scarla and the watery mountain

Climbed mountain to save friends trapped in cage
She cuts open cage and lets them out
Before she can escape the monster comes back and locks her in. But scarla has a key and lets herself out.
She goes home and has a party for the 20 2 year old friends at macdonalds.
When she goes home she finds the bad guys has killed the father!
She thinks her father is pretending but the sees blood on the face
When mummy coming home she dies too at hands of bad guy.
Then scarla thinks mum is pretending then sees the blood coming from glasses. When sister coming scarla punched bad guy to save sister
Brother came home from sch and saw big job in the lift.
Scarla kicked bad guy to save aunty.
She went home to share the sad news with siblings
She asked the 20 friends for medicine for parents. And then voila they woke up

Sections in my poetry book

On the kids for the kids
On partings
Nature
Family

Stuff my son says

He's my darling. Such a sensitive soul
Yesterday he was beaming saying "i'm so confident right Aatha!"
I had been praising him for going up on stage to dance,  for figuring out how to get balls out of a broken glass, for asking questions at a play, for making new friends...

Then at a function to celebrate someone's 80th birthday he asks when is he going to die??!??!??!?

Mortified. We had to educate him on the spot that that was not the thing to say! But innocent he was. Asking matter of factly without the burden of the fears and worry attendant upon death. Cherishable moment i guess.

Up to yesterday he wanted to be an actor. As of yesterday he wants to be a singer like sp balasubramaniam..says he wants to learn singing till he's 25 or more.

I am so proud of him.

The other day in bed he said hes god worst blessing. So sad. The picture of him says god's sweetest blessing. His self esteem is something i have to work on

Currently ignoring his bad behaviour is working wonders.

He's so precious.

god the painter of skies

God paints a pretty picture every morning of the skies and clouds
hues of pink and blue and purples and oranges and swirling patterns in clouds

Everyday a new picture
he then discards his masterpiece and does another the next day