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What was the happiest period in your life?

For me, it was the past two months.

It was the summer holidays for Anu. She was always home and created multiple disasters, elder sister Priya left us, we also got a younger sister and a younger brother, we won the election, Arjun became a frequent visitor at our home and many more incidents. Elder sister Priya leaving us wasn't exactly a happy incident. But I was happy that she could finally enter the next phase of her journey.

Unfortunately, nothing lasts forever.

Schools reopened after the holidays.

Anu has the habit of wearing school uniform on the first day of school. Normally, there is no need to wear the uniform on the first day of school. But Anu was different. Every year, on the first day, she went to school in full uniform.

As usual, she was cute in the uniform and she even had a colourful umbrella. Even though the first day was only up to noon, mom packed lunch for her as she was excited to use her new lunch box. Mom and dad were happy to see her enthusiasm.

But not everyone was happy.

Doodu and I were sad.

I threw a tantrum and tried to stop her from going to school. After all, the first day wasn't that important. I hugged her leg with my four limbs and cried. Mom forcefully took me away and I scratched her face.

In the end, I got punished and Anu went to school.

Once Anu started going to school, the days became boring. I would play with Doodu for some time. Then talk to the babies and bit and then some playtime with mom. The rest of the time was for sleeping.

Once the school bus reaches our home, everything would change.

I and Doodu would jump around Anu demanding her to play with us. But there were strict rules. First, she had to give her lunch box to the kitchen. Then she had to keep her bag at her study table. Finally, change her uniform and put it in the laundry bin.

After that, she would get to play with us for a long time. If it is not raining, then Arjun would also join us.

Arjun was slowly becoming an elder brother for me. He recently started giving me piggyback rides. Then he would complain that I am getting heavy.

Once the playtime is over, Anu had to take a bath, change her clothes and have snacks and milk. In between, she would wake up the babies and talk to them a bit. The babies would simply cry and poop. In the end, mom will have to feed them and put them back to sleep. But strangely, mom never told her not to wake up the kids.

This was similar to how Anu used to give me small kisses every five minutes when I was a poopy baby. Or how she used to tickle me to wake me up. Neither mom nor dad stopped Anu from it.

Once Anu started going to school, we started getting calls from her teachers.

One day, she got the idea that if they eat their lunch early, they might get to go home early. So, she convinced her classmates to eat their lunch early. When the teacher came to teach them after the first interval, she found all the kids happily eating their lunch. She and the caretaker had to spend a bit of effort to stop the kids.

Another day, she convinced her friend that when moms eat too much potato, it causes 'gas' in their belly. Then they would let out a big fart and a baby will come out.

She also got admission to Sunday school. There also she was making trouble. But the teacher was dad's friend and she easily handled Anu.

One day, we got a call from an angry parent. Mom had to apologize to them many times to appease their anger.

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