So long Sahelis!

As I head out of Portland, I wanted to wish Portland Saheli all the best for the future! It was great knowing all of you and fun to be a part of such friendly, progressive and thoughtful gang of girls! Thanks to Shaifali forstarting this and for all the others for pursuing the same with equal energy and enthusiasm!  Of all the memories I have of Portland, one of the fondest will be of our monthly Saheli meetings over chai and savories! Once again ...thank you for the surprise at our last meeting hosted by Ashwini at the Thprd park. Okay...time for me to go....but mind you...once a Saheli always a Saheli....this is not a farewell ....I will definitely be in touch with all of you....across seven seas....vide this blog! Good luck ladies! Miss you all!

Sahelis in June

Venue: Lekha's House Date:June 21, 2011

Members who made it to the June Meeting:

Ashwini, Divya, Hema, Lekha, Soumya, Supraja,Trupti and Prajakta for a little bit.

And of course juniors Athmay, Nirmay and Sreemayi who

attended their own fun club away from us, the noisy moms!!

Only agenda we had last meeting was not to have an agenda and

free flow with whatever subject that came up! So we touched kids,

schools (of course:)), Bangalore real estate, Parents and life back home,

Divya's imminent move to India, Portland summer attractions(!!) etc to

name a few. That brings me to the topic of U Pick farms.

Fruit picking season is upon us and there are tons of farms

around here you can visit with family and friends.

Now, if you want to cut short all the hard work, go to the farm stand at

185 & West Union crossing for a good selection of local, organic berries.

Congratulation to New Moms Roshni & Prajakta!

We were delighted to see Prajakta come out for the first time

after the birth of Dhruv last month.

Roshni looks equally good and daughter Maahi is treating her mama well,

for the most part.:)

Got a surprise call from a probable new member Nisha

who requested that her email id be added to the list.

Thanks to those of who made it to the fun meeting in June.

I like the fact that I come away with a happy face every time.

Hope to see a bigger Saheli family in July....Adios..!

Minutes of meeting - May

Better late than never ...I thought let me key in the minutes of the last meeting in May.

 Date : 05/09/2011

Venue : Divya's house

Members present : Roshni, Lekha, Supraja, Sowmya, Trupti, Hema and Divya. 

At the meet-up:
We welcome our new members Hema and Trupt and hope to see more of both of you in the upcoming meetings.
Missed our other Sahelis esp. Shaifali who is busy with finishing school and one of our most regular members Prajaka, who has been blessed with a baby boy! Congrats!
For a change, we didnt have any story to discuss...but we girls are the last ones to have trouble starting a conversation....right? So it was two hours of chat session with no-holds-barred....diverse enough to give the ladies of "The View" a run for their money!
Thanks to everyone for making this meeting happen and hope to see you all again.







                


 

Minutes of the March saheli meeting

Friends who joined: Ashwini, Divya,lekha,Prajakta, Ramya ,Roshini, Smita, sowmya, Supraja.

Our conversation started with everyone sharing their memories on how they met their life partners. All of us had really a good laugh on this topic.

The book for discussion " The The Scream by H. Briscoe " triggered lot of discussion around our own lives growing up as siblings. Most of us jogged the memory lane, remembering those adventures,school days, competition with each other, silly fights and missing those unforgettable days of life.

Shared individual views on pros n cons of delivering and raising a baby in US Vs in India.

2 hrs just flew like minutes, and I wished if we could continued the session for some more time. Thank you all for making it. It was a pleasure to host this session of saheli meet.

Our next meet will be hosted by smita

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.