I love summer vacations! No waking up in the morning! No school! No Homework and there is so much you can do. I was waiting eagerly for the holidays and they are finally here. I have made a long list of things I want to do during the vacations and with grandma and grandpa here, I can have even more fun!

Mumma gave a sweet surprise this morning. She bought me a lot of games, fun activities and creativity kits. Mumma says it is very important to nurture creativity since it helps us in many ways. I thought creativity only meant making beautiful drawings and painting; but mumma said creativity is about all the innovative things that we can do. She said if I can make something new out of the building blocks – that is creativity; if I can think of some new and interesting game – that is creativity.

I told mumma, I have often heard people say, creativity is inbuilt. So how can I become creative?  She smiled and said, there are many ways in which we can nurture creativity inside us. So this summer we are going to do a lot of creative things through play and activities, she said. Mumma said being creative helps us become confident and it helps us cope with many adverse situations.

So we made a plan – one day we are going to make some models using modelling clay, then we will call all the friends and do some imaginative play (king and queen sort of); then mumma will teach me to make things using building blocks and so on. She said we will also make some nice decorative and colourful salads one day. Sounds so interesting! Everything sounds so exciting to me! I checked the bag of goodies and I saw a number of story books. Mumma, dadda and I will read them together before sleeping.

There is one more thing I want to tell you – though it is a secret between me and mumma, mumma will buy me a digital camera and we will take a lot of pictures – insects, animals, plants, mumma, dadda and of course mine! I have planned to shoot a movie – mumma as the queen, dadda the king and I will be the princess! It seems this vacation will be very exciting! I can do things that I have never done before and mumma seems to be in a very good mood. She has promised me to do everything that I want to do. Mumma and I promised we will avoid watching TV and using mobile phones and do what we like doing. We will do something new and interesting every day and make a note of it in our diary.

God must be very happy with me! He has planned the best for me – first we went to the amazing road trip, then my grandparents will be here soon and then we will be enjoying summer vacations to the fullest! Thank you god for making my life so happy!

My grandparents are coming to live with us next week and I am super excited about it. I had a great time with my grandma and grandpa, last time we visited India and I have been telling them to visit us since then. But for some reasons they were not able to come. Last night dad came back home and told grandma called him to say, they would be coming to live with us in London for a month. Isn’t that great news!

I love living with grandma and grandpa; they love me so much that they do whatever I tell them to do. Today morning I was talking with mumma and I asked what I can do with grandma and grandpa when they visit us. She told me there are many things we can do together – we can go for morning walk, share secrets, do homework together, listen stories and even visit some places. She also said that having grandparents is very important. Just as mumma and dadda have significant roles in a child’s life; grandparents also have an important role to play.

She said being elders they provide us all kinds of support and advice whenever required. Mumma said when I was very small they can to live with us and they took very good care of me. Grandma helped mumma feed me, take care of me when I was sick and she would even read me stories every night. Grandpa would take me out for a walk every morning. Once I had a bad cold and mumma was very confused about what to do. Grandma told her about some home remedies to cure cold. She tried them and I was back to normal within two days.

Mumma says, grandparents are very experienced, so we should learn from them. They have seen the world and handled many situations, so they can help us solve our problems. Grandparents can become our friends, mentors or even caregivers when required. But we should also take care of them whenever required. Being old, they are fragile and they need our support. They might even fall ill and need our care. So we should look after them, just the way they care for us when we need them.

I want my grandparents to live with me forever! There are many things that I want to do with them and there are many places I want to take them to. But mumma says, they won’t be able to stay with us forever. Grandpa has his work back in India and grandma has other people to look after. But I will make sure I enjoy with them a lot and make many memories. Once they go back, I will visit them whenever possible!

I want to buy some special gifts for my grandparents, so I have asked mumma to take me to the gift shop! I am waiting eagerly for their arrival; hope the day comes soon!