Couple of my favorite quotes from Criminal Minds : Season 8

"If you win, say nothing. If you lose, say less!!" - Paul Brown

"Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their true image!" - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Show me your garden and I shall tell you who you are!" - Alfred Austin

"Better than a thousand days of diligent study, is one day with a great teacher..." - Japanese proverb

"The greatest good you can do for another, is not to share your own riches, but to reveal to him, his own!!" - Benjamin Disraeli

"It's easier to build strong children than to repair broken men!!" - Frederick Douglass

"My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long..." - Marie Antoinette

"Sometimes the hardest part isn't letting go but rather learning to start over!!" - Nicole Sobon

"The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in atime of pain or joy..." - Alan Lightman

"I can resist anything except temptation!!" - Oscar Wilde

"For darkness restores what light cannot repair!" - Joseph Brodsky

"There is no present or future - only the past, happening over and over again..." - Eugene O'Neill

"Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise!!" - H. G. Wells

My baby boy is already a year old!!!

Wow can't believe my baby is already a year old!!! Just yesterday i was thinking how unexpected it was for him to be born on the same date as his Dad :). Best experience of my life. His birth changed my life in best ways possible.

This past year with my baby boy has been the best year of my life. It's amazing how fast this year has gone, how fast he went from being a tiny, all time sleeping baby to a naughty, walking, talking one year old! From learning how to roll over to crawling around! From learning to stand by himself to walking around! 

He is such a happy baby with most amazing smile and eyes. No matter how tired or irritated I am, one cute smile and one soft hug from him makes it all better. I cannot get enough of him. Because of him I know the deepest meaning of love and joy of being a mom. Every time he calls me "Amma" (mom) and hugs me I feel so happy, I forget everything and all I feel like doing is holding him in my arms and never letting him go. I had never thought I could love someone so much!

A single tear from his eyes breaks my heart, I don't want to put him down because I am constantly worried that he might hurt himself!!! Elizabeth Stone once said “Making the decision to have a child - it is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body”. It couldn't be more true. No matter how old he grows, he'll always be my baby and I will always worry for him!!!

Sharing with a stranger!!!

Its so weird that sometimes it is so easy to confide feelings and problems in a total stranger than discussing it with someone you know. With a stranger I hardly have to worry about being judged or the chances of word getting out or even my reputation getting tarnished.

While chatting with a stranger I never have to worry about how anything I say might affect them because they don't know me and I don't know them. Also this person is not part of my day to day life so I don't have to worry about someone reminding me of the issue and its consequences. There is a good chance that this discussion might find a great solution to the problem on hand, something I might have missed or something I might not have thought about, as this person would listen to what the problem is rather than think about how it will affect them.

I can confide my most embarrassing incident of life and don't have to worry about what this person might think about me or how this might affect the relationship between us, as I have very less invested in this relationship or worry about others finding this out. If this person does not react in a way you expected, it is very easy to break off and find another person to talk to!!!

There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't met (William Butler Yeats). So who knows this stranger might become the "friend you haven't met" with great advices, just like in "You've got mail" and "Mitr - My friend"!!! :) :) Everyone should have such stranger as friends in life with whom they can share anything and everything without any worries.

Couple of my favorite quotes!!!

My baby is 6 Months old!!!

I cannot believe my baby is already 6 months old!! It only seems like yesterday he was born. Wow time flies by so fast when you have a little one to take care of.

All those early days when my mom used to teach me how to hold him, change him, feed him, burp him and bath him, times when he used to only sleep, feed and poop (all the time) they all still feel like a dream.

He is growing up so quickly. All those cute little outfits which used to fit him 3 weeks ago no longer fits him!! My kiddy who used to sleep all day long, now hardly sleeps during the day. His night sleeping pattern hasn't changed much. He has started to move around (almost crawling), sit up all by himself, smile when he sees familiar faces, laugh out loud, eating solid food (3 times a day), gets all excited when his father comes home, he babbles and makes all those cute baby noises and many other sweet little things.

I wish I could slow time down just a little bit so that I could enjoy every single moment at the fullest. I cannot get enough of him. :) :)

Before I was a MOM!!!

Before I was a Mom -

I slept as late as I wanted and never worried about how late I got into bed. I never sat up late hours at night watching a baby sleep. I had never gotten up in the middle of the night every 10 minutes to make sure all was okay. I slept all night. I never worried about my eating habit.

I never tripped over toys or forgot words to a lullaby. I never held down a screaming child so that doctors could do tests...or give shots. I never thought about immunizations.

I had never been Puked on - Pooped on - Spit on - Chewed on or Peed on. I had complete control of my mind and My thoughts.

I never looked into teary eyes and cried. I never got gloriously happy over a simple grin. I never felt so calm by a soft touch. I never knew how special it would feel to feed and change a baby. I never knew i could care for someone so much.

I never held a sleeping baby just because I didn't want to put it down. I never felt my heart break into a million pieces when I couldn't stop the hurt. 

I never knew that something so small could affect my life so much and change it in a ways I never imagined. I never knew that I could love someone so much. I never knew I would love being a Mom. I didn't know that something so small could make me feel so important. 

I had never known The warmth, The joy, The love, The heartache, The wonderment or the satisfaction of being a Mom. 

I never knew I was capable of feeling so much before I was a MOM.

Couple of quotes from Criminal Minds : Seasons 4 - 7

“We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.” 

– Chuck Palahniuk

"I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay." 

– Bob Dylan

“There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds 
haunt us, with or without repentance.” – Gilbert Parker

"Delay is the deadliest form of denial." – British Historian C. Northcote Parkinson

"For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, 
no proof is possible." – Stuart Chase

"I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn."

 – Albert Einstein

"Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, 

it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it." – Terry Pratchett

"In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present." – Francis Bacon

"Better to write for yourself and have no public than to write for the public and have no self." 

– Writer Cyril Connolly

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." 

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

"There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness but of power. 

They are messengers of overwhelming grief and of unspeakable love." – Washington Irving

"In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate." – Isaac Asimov

"A sincere artist tries to create something which is, in itself, a living thing." 

– Painter William Dobell

"A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another. If these minds love one 
another, the home will be as beautiful as a flower garden. But if these minds get out of 
harmony with one other it is like a storm that plays havoc with the garden." – The Buddha

"We all wear masks and the time comes when we cannot remove them without removing our 
own skin." – André Berthiaume

“But I have promises to keep and miles to go before I sleep. And miles to go before I sleep.” 

– Robert Frost

"The herds seek out the great, not for their seed, but for their influence and the great welcome 

them out of vanity or need." – Napoleon Bonaparte

"Without heroes we are all plain people and don't know how far we can go." 

– Bernard Malamud

"When we were children, we used to think that when we grew up we would no longer be 
vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability, to be alive is to be vulnerable." 
– Madeleine L'Engle

"There is no such thing as part freedom." – Nelson Mandela

"What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what we are today." 

– William Glasser

“Hunting is not a sport. In a sport, both sides should know they're in the game.” 

– Paul Rodriguez

"When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be." – Lao Tzu

"People will believe a big lie sooner than a little one, and if you repeat it frequently enough, 

people will sooner or later believe it." – Walter Langer

"Bring the past only if you're going to build from it." – Doménico Cieri Estrada

"What lies in our power to do, lies in our power not to do." – Aristotle

"If it is a miracle, any sort of evidence will answer. But if it is a fact, proof is necessary." 

– Mark Twain

"Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge." – Scott Adams

"We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we 
create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone." – Orson Welles

"Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, 

so that we see ourselves as we truly are." – Arthur Golden

"Hope is faith holding out its hand in the dark." – George Iles

"Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die." – Joe Louis

"Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go." 

– Hermann Hesse

"You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will leave in torment if you don't trust 
enough." – Frank Crane

"For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth." – Bo Bennett

"All that we see or seem, Is but a dream within a dream." – Edgar Allen Poe

"To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth." – Voltaire