promotion and posting

I have taken over charge of a new post of  grandmother exactly one month back. For my promotion I did not get any communication from the authorities concerned. It can be forgiven as the authority was very busy sleeping through the trauma of coming out into this world and simultaneously creating so many promotions across the khandaan! My daughter became amma and my son in law appa and my huband a proud thatha. My son got annointed as mama and my parents became glorious 'kollu thatha and patti'.My sister became kutti patti and she is beaming. My brother is not going to like this but he is a mama thatha now, gone are the days of being the 'mama' and the preferred one at that on all auspicious occasions. And wait, my two nieces who are 14 and 15 years old are going to be 'chittis'.

Everybody takes charge of the new post immediately, there is no acceptance letter and travel to the new post. However congratulatory messages are flowing thick and fast from all family and friends.
I saw the transformation of my daughter to a mother in a split second ! Nature is powerful! My son in law was beaming and calling people continuously on his phone. Kutti patti was part of the medical team in the labour room, so she and the new father were there in the 'inner cirlce' when the promotion was being finalised!

The thatha  is a very busy man and so is the mama. They were doing regular sorties to and from home to hospital for the next few days.And for me it was a whirl. I saw the baby and said, it is so small. I had forgotten what it is to hold a one hour old infant in my hands. Kutti patti helped the new mother get a hang of her new role.  A steady stream of 'kollu pattis' made visits to hospital. Yes the baby has three kollu pattis and one kollu thatha. Lucky brat! My mother was the most excited of them all and arrived in the hospital with a nurse in toe, within a few hours of accepting the post! " tala kaal puriyala amma ku". And hold your breadth, he has a 'chinna ellu patti'! Yes, my mother's chitti. Plan to take him and get her blessings after three months.