Welcome New members!

Its great to see that our Portland Saheli Family is growing!
Sorry for my continued absence from the scene..I am waiting to come back in June after I am done with my commitments.:) I am happy to see that, lot of people are taking interest in the goal behind the Saheli gang! Which is very much reaching out as a community, supporting each other in our respective endeavours. I thank all the members of the PS family for keeping the meetings every month and coming up with a new theme everytime!
Signing off for now- with best wishes and hope you girls have a great Spring!
PS- Isn't it time for another girls-nite out? and yes..I heard Supraja mentioning about a picnic too..:) I am sure it will be fun planning!
Keep going....:)))

Restaurants - Try it and you may like it!

I thought our earlier post for restaurants needed an update for 2011. So please feel free to suggest any restaurants you've been to.

Minutes of the February Meeting

Date: 02/28/2011
Venue : Suprajs's place
Members present : Supraja, Prajakta, Sowmya, Smita, Roshni, Lekha & Divya

Agenda :

• Short story discussion
• Sharing and exchanging of tips on travel, shopping, recipes, heath, etc.
• Include presently active members as contributors for the blog.

At the meeting :

• We welcome our new members into the PS family! Lekha, who got a preview of the PS meeting the last time and Roshni who sat through the full episode this time!:-) Anyway, we hope to see you more.
• We missed our sahelis Shaifali and Ramya.
• Discussed the short story titled "Dusk" by Saki.
• Discussed, debated, imparted, learnt, shared and exhanged numerous tips on various issues related to women, shopping, travel, food, kids, and activities around Portland!
• Last but not the least, relished the tasty snacks dished out by the host.

Resolved to

• Keep the blog active.
• Make the necessary changes to include our current members as contributors.

Next meeting venue : Sowmya's place.

Minutes of the first meeting of the year- 1/30/2011

Venue : Prajakta's house

Members present: Prajakta, Supraja, Sowmya and Divya, our newest member Smita.
We were also joined by Prajakta's friend was interested in the PS family - Lekha.

At the meeting:
Read & discussed a column in the Time ( Oct 26th 2009) by Nancy Gibbs titled " Who am I to you?"

We welcomed our new member Smita into our Saheli family.

Enjoyed a relaxed afternoon of girlie gup-shup over a delectable lunch dished out by Prajaka!

We missed our other Sahelis - Shaifali, Ashwini and Shilpi.

Resolved :
To seriously work on keeping our blog active.

Resume short-story discussions.

Next meeting in Feb hosted by Supraja.

Happy Thanksgiving!!!

Just wanted to wish all of you a happy thanksgiving and happy shopping on Black Friday!!!

Minutes of the Annual meeting - 11/21/2010

Members present : Prajakta, Ashwini, Bakul, Shaifali, Supraja, Divya

Venue : Divya's house

Agenda : Grand celebration of Portland Saheli's first anniversary and fufilling
long pending agenda of taking a group snap!

At the meeting : Being the first anniversary/birthday, we had to cut a cake and like any
other American birthday ordered pizzas and coke. But Portland Saheli still
has a unique ishtyle in that we all dressed desi and played a fun board game
over .....no prizes for guessing ...CHAI!!!

Resolved : To Contribute inputs to the blog as often as possible or at least one post a
month.

To hold meet -ups at regular intervals like every month and proceed
with the meet-up as long as there is an attendance of at least two members.

To resume book discussions at each meeting.

To expand our Saheli family.

To explore possibilities for volunteering/social work opportunities.

Next Meeting : December 2010 at Supraja's house.

Portland Saheli is one year old!!!

Hip Hip Hooray!

Congratulations to all the PS Members for being together in our 14 month old journey..

Yes, we completed a year and are now in our second year of togetherness..

Laughter,sharing, night outs, book discussions, social issues, and new ventures-- it has been a wonderful year!

As I look back, last year when I had started it, I wanted to create a platform where we wives could come up and do something different apart from our household and family commitments! Its wonderful to be a wife, caregiver, homemaker but to have a support system right there means a lot..helping ladies venture into the American world not alone..

Thanks Divya for hosting our Annual event!

We discussed some crucial steps for a more regular meet up every month which will be noted in a separate section.

All members are encouraged to post one post every month to feel connected to the PS world!

Thank you for all the fun times that we spend together!