Long long back, I read somewhere (I am pretty sure it is an old Reader’s Digest India edition) about how a mother’s sickness lasts only 24 hours as she needs to be back on her feet fast. Somehow mothers could never be seen lying in bed more than 24 hours just because they are sick. It made sense at that time as I rarely saw my mother take a sick day.

Fast forward to today, I had a 36 hour sickness. Fever, cold, headache, sore throat and works. I was down for 36 hours and now am up and running. I even did a big load of laundry and ironed clothes at the end of it. I surprise myself.

This motherhood thing brings changes that I least expect…