The next BIG one

This was in 2005 AUG
In between our lives was ONLY travel, once to our own land India and next to a totally unknown land Canada! Our lives in Canada consisted of constant moving!!! If we look back we can see ourselves moving to 10 different places in 5 years not to count the number of houses we have changed...

We were in Toronto in 2005 and there our Beautiful Daughter was born in August. To help us thru the process my Mother-in-law (I call her AMMA) who is 70 years old came.. She has the strong traits of my grand mother who was strong and used to do all her work herself! Amma was with us when we made our BIG move.. Move from Toronto ON to Chicago IL. This time we had a Jeep Grand Cherokee and had rented a 5X8 U-Haul Trailer. This was 600 Mile drive mainly on 400 in Canada and I 90 in USA. I have not seen a SMOOTHER road than 400 in Canada.. Newly Asphalted road was AWESOME. This time I gave a little rest to my husband during the drive and helped him in covering miles.

My husband, he is Patient, Calm and COOL person who is a Sweetheart at all times. He did the entire stretch without complaints and pain! We used to stop every 3-4 hrs to feed the li'l angel that we were taking along with us. He never uttered a word for the number of stops we had or the length of each stop although he had to rejoin work the next day. I can vividly remember the incident when my daughter was asleep and the routine feeding time had come... i was all oozing.. he stopped and helped me pump out without saying a word or complaining about what was happening.. it was such a relief.. !!! GOD BLESS him!

We were moving our Residence from Toronto to Chicago and had a ton of stuff with us... and with the Baby.. our items just doubled! If you peeked into the trailer.. you could find a LOTs of groceries, number of utensils (kitchen is one place I accumulate soo much of stuff I can never get over that habit, I should say kitchen appliances, crockery and cutlery are my all-time weakness) TON of baby stuff ( if i think about it.. I can never stop buying stuff for her!!), a couch and CLOTHES.. it never ends.. dresses here there and everywhere!!!

One person who dint know what was going on around us was our Daughter only weeks old baby! She came along with us where ever we went without complaints and fuss! She had only a few requirements feed, sleep poop and Pee!!! But our whole trip was revolving around these 4 activities. Stop when she poops, a diaper change if there is too much of pee.. drive when she sleeps!!! again stop when she feeds!! so this explains our stop every 3-4 hours!!! :-) :-) :-) :-)

We crossed the boarder at Sarnia (boarder of Michigan) on the first day without any hitches and stayed at Best Western. The next day after breakfast we started off to complete the rest of the journey to Chicago.

Amma was all the time cheering us up and was such a great support throughout the time. I have not seen a lady at that age going soo strong ..(touch wood). Amma was not complaining about anything.. despite her difficulties, she had a SMILING face all the time which motivated us to do better than what we were doing. She is a Pillar of strength, who travelled alone at her age for 24 hrs just to give us that extra comfort for which we LONGED!!! Amma, you have made a difference to us!! THANKS A LOT for all the support you and APPA have extended to us at all the time!! We are totally indebted to you both