Max
Oh and I forgot to share this photo from about a week ago. Was happily walking in Mirdif City Centre and discovered this sign....
Max really have Sweden´s tastiest burgers and I look forward to the opening. Hopefully they will be the first burger chain in Dubai to offer glutenfree bread too!
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The best I have
My dad left last night but today was a bit of a crappy day and I have no energy for any updates but I will share a photo I just took of the best I have....
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6
I cant belive that my most loving and caring little boy turned 6 today. Exactly 6 years ago I was going through the last phases of labour.....thinking about everything that happened since then brings tears to my eyes. We have been so lucky to have gotten such a ray of sun.
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Old Dubai
Yesterday we went to Old Dubai, visited the Dubai Museum and then we crossed the creek with an abra to visit the spice souk. It was a little bit too hot to be comfortable but now we bought our saffron and vanilla to prepare for the xmas baking so all´s good :)
Our gardener was supposed to come, or send someone over to come and prepare for us planting the flowers and trees on saturday. He was going to dig up the grass around the perimiter and put bricks as a border. We had explained how important it was for it to be ready on thursday (since friday is their day off) and why (since sat is A´s birthday and we wanted to plant together). Gardener said no problem 18 hours before the work was supposed to be started. He said he would start work at 9 in the morning, even if we were out. When we came home from our outing no works had been carried out! R called him up and he said Im coming on saturday. R reminded him how he promised and why etc and I totally lost it so R told him he would have to call back about saturday. R took his lunch and I was so angry, upset and dissapointed that I went up to have a good cry on the bed. You always want the best for your children, and even more so on their birthdays and then you involve someone else and they just ruin the plans you´ve made. We discussed what to do and R called him back only to find his mobile switched off. At this point I prepared myself for not doing the garden this weekend and stated looking for another gardener but shortly after the doorbell rang and the gardener was there. It appeared he had "found" someone to do the work anyway so instead of morning the works were carried out in the afternoon but they are done so we can plant tomorrow! (provided the plants arrive as agreed!) I´ve written it before, and i will write it again, its so tiriing to always have to get upset and fight for what has been paid for/agreed upon.
We did have a good end to the day, my dad and I took the kids to the pool and then bbq for dinner!
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Daddy in the house!
A year after we moved to Dubai my dad finally got here yesterday night. The flight went ok and so did the taxi ride (but it was hard finding the actual house in the dark, especially since neither they or the taxi driver knew exactly where it was)
Yesterday we had a fairly relaxed day, they caught up on some sleep and then we went to Mirdif City Centre for some groceries for dinner. After kids came back from school we went to the plant souk to buy the plants that we will be planting on saturday. I dont know if I mentioned this before but A will get "a nice garden" for his birthday, just like he wished for. When he first said that he wanted that for his birthday I was not quite sure, it felt like he should wish for something that is only for him, and not for the whole family to enjoy. The more I thought about it though I felt we should encourage such unselfish behaviour, its not like he isnt going to get any presents to unwrap or anything that´s "only for him". My mum, my dad, R´s parents and sister have things for him and we bought him a couple of small things too of course. He loves watering plants and harvesting things so Im sure this will be a success. And I can just imagine how proud he will feel when he looks out at "his" garden :)
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Tummy cramps
Last night I woke up with cramps in my stomach, just on top of the pubic bone. Sometimes it happens to me when that I wake up and I need to wee really badly so I went to the toilet but the cramps didnt stop. It was really scary and for a while I wasnt sure if I was going to vomit or faint with the pain. I went downstairs to R who was up watching football (since we are now 3 hours ahead of European time the italian football starts at midnight!) and I was seeing how we would have to go to the emergency. I was shivering and R thought I had fever but I think it was cause I was in so much pain and so tense. The pain got worse when I straightened my body by standing up or lying down. R helped me back in bed and heated up a wheat warmer used for sore muscles and pain to try to relax (good thing someone could think straight!) and slowly it got better. As soon as the worst pain went a way I slept like a baby and when I woke up this morning I felt fine, slightly unstable stomachwise but after some bfast Im back to myself I think :)
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Bad luck day
Yesterday was really our bad luck day. A seemed fine in the morning so we went bowling at Mirdif City Centre. When we were leaving and R reversed out of the parking he reversed into another car that was also reversing out. It was a small VW Golf that he didnt see in any of the mirrors and not even through the back window cause it was so small compared to our car. We werent moving fast so thankfully no one was injured but we had to waste an our of our lives to make the police report with hungry kids. Even though both cars had been reversing the police decided that it was our fault as our car was much less out of the parking box! :O In my opinion a crazy decision, the other car could have come out really fasat and thefore gotten further out but that´s how things are here, you have no say (and in this case R couldnt say anything since he never once saw the other car) and in the end its the insurance that will pay. Only issue I guess, will be that we have to pay a bit more for the insurance next year.
In the afternoon A got fever again so today he is home from school. He will need a fever free afternoon before he can go to school, we cant judge by morning. R took J to the pool and I cooked while I cooked. Tried a (for us) new dish, asian style fried rice and I have to say that even though it was a bad luck day the food was really good :)
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Bride
J thought she looked like a bride, saying she was going to marry. When asked whom she was going to marry she said J, our friend´s son that we carpool with to school :)
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Moving on
J woke up without fever yesterday and all was appearing fine until lunchtime when A was so tired he said he could barely keep his eyes open. Of course he had fever! Im hoping it will pass quickly though so he can go to school tomorrow. Very busy birthday week ahead of us....
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Pushchair free household
Yesterday a swedish friend came over to see the last pushchair, our Phil & Teds with double. She liked it and bought it on the spot so now we are a pushchairfree household. It feels great, no more bulky strollers around the house of malls. It made me feel slightly emotional too though....kids are growing up so fast!
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Two of my darlings
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Parasol stand
We bought this rusty parasol stand on Dubizzle, it was cheap and I thought I would paint it to match our table and chairs instead of spending 5 times the money on a new one.
This is the result
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Bedroom makeover part 2
Works in progress, putting his desk together
This is the result in A´s bedroom
How could I not buy him a yellow clock when I found one? Thank you IKEA!
The painting is his own, from the school trip he went on just the other day
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Lovely walk
Since we had been in all day, working on the bedrooms, I decided to go for a walk this evening while R cooked. A came with me around all of Cedre Villas, riding on his bike. It was not too hot (dont ask me how I can think "not too hot" about 30 degrees) and I really enjoyed it! So lovely.
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Bedroom makeover
With the new beds the wallstickers were no longer showing and today we spent the morning organising and prepareing the kids bedrooms. This is the result in J´s room
A pink wall clock, what else could a girl want? ;) J was over the moon!
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Maclaren
One pushchair less in the house, the Maclaren stroller was just sold. Great!
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First bfast outside
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Fever
J has had a runny nose for probably two weeks, some cough every now and then and not getting better nor worse. Last night I thought she felt a bit hot and this morning I took her temperature, 38.5. Because of this I stayed home with her in the morning while R took A to the pool with some friends. In the afternoon we all went grocery shopping though as she was showing no signs of being tired from her fever but this evening she was burning and didnt want any food. She said her mouth tasted bad and that it was hurting so I guess that is where the fever is coming from. We put her to bed extra early hoping for a quick recovery
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Dubizzle
There is a website for selling second hand stuff called Dubizzle and right now we have our first ads up. We are finally going to get rid of all pushchairs and strollers. Therefore we had to clean out our tiny under stairs storage in search for the acessories, rain covers are not really needed in Dubai ;) Im keeping my fingers crossed that they sell quite fast, it will be great to get rid of them from the tv room :) The kids junior beds are also for sale, to make space to organise their rooms a bit.
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Garden furniture
I dont think I mentioned it here on the blog but we bought a garden dinner table last sunday (not yesterday but the week before) and they were supposed to be delivered last saturday. It was a special offer and they had to colours to choose between, beige and green. The green was "bottle green" and not at all nice for furniture and the beige would look good with the colour of our house to it was an easy choice. On Saturday they called and wanted to deliver our GREEN table?! :O When R said no, we bought beige they said it was sold out but R didnt accpet and since then we have been bugging them about the table. They promised to call us back yesterday but after lunch R called them and they knew nothing. He tried a different number too and they said they would call back but surprise surprise they didnt. He called again this morning and they said it could take 24 hours for them to call back and R said its really not ok, we had to wait one week for original delivery and we need that table. An hour or so later the called to check that we were home for delivery of our beige table. Incredible! Its sooooo Dubai and its very frustrating and annoying. Why should you have to be angry and say you are going to want your money back and go someplace else before they do anything? Its so tough mentally to have to get so worked up every time!
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