R was supposed to go to Tunis for two days today but when I came down this morning he was still on the sofa and it turned out that the flight changed aircraft type so he got to stay home. They gave him standby from 23 tonight until 7 tomorrow morning. With some bonus time together we decided on a trip to IKEA, kids enjoy playing there, then a cheap icecream and still home in time for lunch. Lovely! We bought a cupboard for the bathroom, finally we will try to get some order to the downstairs bathroom with sunblock, meds and shoepolish running around. The kids new beds are in use since a couple of nights by the way, we are quite happy with them (but both of them still come into our bedroom at night)  Before we went away for summer A used to wake up about an hour after going to bed, crying and upset but I couldnt really communicate with him. It was like he wasnt fully awake...Nothing of that sort during summer though so I forgot about it but as soon as we got back to Dubai it started again. Tried to think about what was different to Dubai compared to Sweden and thought about the fact that its so quiet here at night. In sweden he used to sleep in the room next to the tv room and he used to ask me to switch on the tv every evening so that it wouldnt be so quiet. Here is room is far from the tv and most evenings I spend with the laptop, in bed so he wouldnt hear anything from me. Maybe he kind of wakes up (but not fully) and gets scared because he cant hear anything, worrying that he might be alone. Therefore we tried buying a small stereo that i loaded with soft, relaxing music and the two nights that he´s had it we havent heard a word. Really hope I found the solution. The "funny" thing is that I was exactly the same when I was a kid, always wanting to be able to hear my mum roam around, or the tv on so I can relate to his feelings!
The afternoon was spent with swedes, celebrating our friend the 39 year old (although her birthday really is tomorrow). Our countdown has been on for tomorrow too as the kids finally get to start school. They are both ultra excited, we´ll see how it all goes. Will update with pics as soon as I can.