My do-it-all friend

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Shikha had just uploaded pictures of her Diwali party. It was special because she lives in Chicago and every year she throws a mother-of-all Diwali parties for her friends, colleagues and neighbours. The pictures showed the most exquisite rangoli, house decorated with diyas and flowers and a table laden with Indian food including dahi wadas, pooris, slow cooked mutton raan  and besan ladoos and kheer.

I immediately whatsapped her,” Lovley pics. What effort!! Did you cook all this yourself?”

She replied, “Who else. Arre I can do this at least once a year.”

“So did you take time off work?”

 “No.” She replied. “I just did it every day for the last 15 days once I got back in the evening.”

Shikha is one of my oldest and best friends. She is a go-getter career woman and has been awarded the best performer in her company in Chicago over three years. She is out of the house at 6 am and back only by 7 pm. She works hard and she works smart.

Her husband, unfortunately, lost his job in corporate reshuffle a few years back. So she is now the single bread winner of the family. But she takes the politics, the stress and the gruesome work pressure and just roles with it.

AND she is awesome homemaker. She cooks like a dream,. Weekends are devoted to the family, fridge is stocked with food for the coming week, laundry is done and friends are entertained.

She plans all family holidays, she remembers birthdays and she is one of those aunts that kids feel comfortable having a heart to heart.. She does not do things by half.

I always look at her and think, “Wow!! She is this complete Durga kind of woman with gazillion hands and each hand is busy doing something.” She does not have to choose between being the director of her company and being a wife and a mom. She is all. In spades