Paatti's skills of managing us

Paatti used tokeep accounts in a notebook during our schooldays.She used to record all the daily expenses. it always used to attract me in its neat,small leeters. and she will ask me to put in the flower selavu. 100 mallippoo 10paisa. each day she will buy flowwers with out fail and give it to me as soon as I came back from playing. and to secure it in a wetcloth for the school the next day morning.MURALI mama never asked for anything. Ranga mama will always be asking for 10 paise during early days and then progressed to 25 paisa during our pasumalai days. usually it will be for mixer pottalam or kadalai mittai.murali mama and I will share it with him.ranga mama was bold in asking for things while I and murali mama gouravam paarppom.Thatha's salary then was 150rs.paatti's notebook page will start with a notring, Perumaal---1 rupaa,then proceed half moottai arisi 15rs. we were good consumers of everything Paatti provided. all 3 of us had 2 sets of uniforms. our school were christian missionaries run. they had a peculiar system of closing down on thursday and sundays.so I will be praying for some sort of miracle to happen on friday so we can have continous 3 days of freedom.Paatti and thatha were such peaceful people that days of remainig inside the house ,playing,reading or going to a rare movie made those days fun.study holidays were of something more serious.days will start by 5am. all 3 of wake up and and wash and will start to study. the day will be planned with 2, 3 breaks of lunch, coffee. to me 2 hours of study shd be rewarded with 30 minutes of radio and anandha vikatan or some other book.Rangan will run outside. murali mama will never leave the place. he would have done atleast 2 or 3 revisions of every subject.Paatti or thatha never made us account each day. they totally trusted our judgement.paatti's cooking was way beyond description. a simple paruppu thugayal and jeeraga rasam and appalam kaaichinathu will make our night dinners memorable.evening tiffins would have be idly,dosai or karaicha dosai. uppuma was not welcome. but it has to appaear in the leaner periods. sunday and saturday will be omapodi or thenkuzhal days.as i am getting hungry right now, we will meet anotherday.