Overwhelming October...!

REady to have Birthday Blessing !

September was yet to finish and I were excitedly waiting for October because its my birth month. I was born on 10th October. I always wait for this day, for birthday wishes, for gifts and for the tremendous love my family and friends shower to me on the day. Growing a year more older sometimes makes me feel older but the love and blessings bestowed upon me diminishes this odd feeling. As always I received the calls from my loved ones, friends and families and celebrated my day with puja and a cake.

Not only my birthday but this month brings the joy and happiness with one of the greatest festivals, Dashain for all. The cold mornings, waking up in midnights and doing Nawaratri Pujas, eating varieties of foods together with all the family members are few things we do during the festival. This year also we waited for the it to come and celebrated in a great way. Though we celebrate Dashain in a different way here, I tried to do all the important things from shoppings to cleanings and from pujas to feasts. Haven't left a space for me to feel sorry later. Few weeks ahead of Dashain we went to Mustafa, Little India to OGOP and Vivocity for shopping. I hate last hour shoppings but had to visit our local groccery just a day before for 'Dahi' which I forgot to bring from Mustafa.
Most precisely, this year I visited the Durga Temple here. This is my third Dashain here but could visit the temple only this dashain. I lit 108 lights (here it is know as 'jyoti') during the main days of the festival. I took my baby along. He also enjoyed a lot. The festive atmosphere spiced up our excitement.
The biggest day falls on the 10th day with Tika. This year it was on 17th of the month. Woke up earlier that usual and prepared everything before the auspicious time of having tika. As Panditji said it starts from 9:55 a.m. till 11:55 a.m., we finished our puja within the time. Baby was very delighted to have tika. Later Amrit bhai and Kumar bhai's family joined us. We began to exchange Dashain greetings followed by blessing the younger ones with tika and dakshina. Then we had dinner together.
Later all of us departed to visit the relatives and friends. We collected blessings from everyone we need to have. We ended up the day in Annapurna block after having baby blessed from Amrit dai and Durga dai.
We celebrated Dashain in a great way as always. And now we are preparing and waiting for Deepawali....!