Last week, we organised a home made seemandam for Purnima. We had been waiting for her parents who have come from India for her delivery.
The day started with all of us busy preparing things for the function.
Purnima's mother who is an expert cook did most of the cooking, while Purnima danced around her.
I and Purnima's father did our bit by cleaning the house.
The dishes prepared were as per the instructions given by Amma from india via a mail
Actually Amma had written all the instructions in the mail for us to follow during the function, which we followed line by line.
We even tried to call a Vadyar, but could not find a South Indian Vadyar here. Appa even gave an idea of calling a Vadyar in Delhi and he reciting the mantrams via a webcam for us.
Would not that be called an excellent use of technology. Guess the Vadyars settled here wont think so.
Well anyway, we did the things without a vadyar.
Purnima got ready with the new Saree that her mother had brought from India.
Purnima's mother performed the roles of mother, mother-in-law and sister-in-law.
The bangles were specially brought from India, for the occassion.
Purnima with friends present at the occassion.
As per the custom, Purnima had to feed Paruppu sadam to a child. Sunil's (my friend) daughter Stuti, does not seem to be enjoying the dish, and tries to do everything to avoid it.
Family Photo to end the proceedings
2 comments:
Read your post, along with the soundtrack of mami's running commentary to go with the pictures.
She enjoyed seeing the post the first thing in the morning. Wanted you to follow it up with a quick post soon after the child birth.
Some specifics:1)She was surprised that Poornima's parents could arrange for a 'veppilai kappu'. Is 'neem' available locally in London? Or were the leaves brought from India ? Which raises another question. How did they allow the greens through the customs? In the US they don't even let you carry flowers.
2)Skyping the 'mantra' is a great idea from Govindan. Maybe,you could think of Skyping the proceedings to parents in New Delhi at the next function you organise.Your grandma would welcome it, wouldn't she.
Good to know that Mami enjoyed the post. I can imagine how her commentary would have sounded.
Those Neem leaves were actually from india. I could not find a single Neem tree in UK. Fortunately my in-laws bags were never scrutinised much. My father in Law attributed that to their Indianised dressing and baggage. Only if the authorities had checked, they would have found pickles, Paruppu podi and what not.
We did thought of giving a live telecast to Delhi folks, but the timings did not match. They had their appointments at those times and we had to see the rahu kalam and all. Will surely keep that option open the next time.
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