DESS

Anyone who has followed me since we decided to move here knows that A had a hard time accepting the fact that we had to leave Malta and his school etc and how bad I felt for him but here is a nice update. The other day in the car he told me "I like my new school better than my old". I have a feeling he has forgotten the details from San Andrea but I dont really care, as long as right now he is not unhappy here and thinking we would have been better off in Malta.


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The day from hell

Today I feel like it has been a day from hell. The kids woke up too early and have since then taken turns to scream and complain, they drove me insane. A started when we said we were going to dress and go out and when I managed to cheer him up in the car with some music J started complaining instead (she didnt like the song) then they fought about the positioning of their water bottles and it just got worse from then onwards. Now they are finally in bed and I can have some peace and quiet!



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April roster

Last night R passed his simulator test so now we can start living again :P

He also got his april roster yesterday and we couldnt be happier. He has a total of four flights (!) of which 3 are to Malta and the fourth one a shortie to Baghdad. Sure, he has some leave but still. April should be a lovely month for us :)



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B'fast

We are a bunch of swedes that found eachother through FB that have been meeting at eachothers houses every wednesday. Its great as it helps me get out of Silicon Oasis every once in a while and this week I went to the Palm. Its nice to have been there but the more I see of other parts of Dubai the happier I am about where we live. At times it might feel like we are a bit far out but then we have peace and quiet and never find lots of traffic to come or go. On wed its my turn to have the girls over, its going to be fun and I have already started planning. Tonight Im going to prepare a dough to stay raising all night and bake it tomorrow morning for the famiily to test it out. Hope it will come out good!


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Re-arranged bedroom

After a couple of weeks of the kids wanting to sleep in the same room and finding J on the floor near A's bed we took the decision to move her bed into his room so now this is what it looks like.




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IKEA <3

Sometimes I thank my lucky stars that there is an IKEA here in Dubai as opposed to Malta. Yesterday I bought this bread and thought the kids would be totally excited.



But when I was going to serve it this morning A didnt want "its not like grandma's bread". I tried to explain that it was still the same although it was not the same shape and finally he took an ant sized bite. Even though I was sure he was going to like it I didnt expect his excitement when he told me "wow, now I remember!" Then he added that maybe I cold buy a bigger packet next time :)








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Banana muffins

Had two bananas that were turning brown and the kids refuse to eat them and I dont feel like I can force them as I would prefer to eat a greenish banana rather than a brown myself so I ended up baking some muffins again. They smell lovely , good thing I didnt bake them glutenfree, I could have never stayed away from them....


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Poor little J

J is still unwell, complaining of stomach ache and had diarrhoea twice today. Right now she is knocked out, watching tv on the sofa. R is sleeping after his night flight so its quiet around the house. Wed and Thursday night R has his yearly simulator checks and I look forward to friday when they are over and done with so I get my husband back, this month he has spent all his time studying and preparing for this.


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Rotavirus?

Yesterday morning J complained of stomach pain and before A had left for school she threw up! We thought it was all cause of her eating junk the day before at the birthday party but after lunch when we went to rest she threw up again, twice, so it was something more than that. When we woke up she had fever and before she went to bed I gave her paracetamol. She slept through the night  but still had some fever this morning so she stayed home again. After lunch (she only had a chicken drumstick) she had diarrhoea but was fine for the rest of the day however some 2 hours after bedtime we heard her cry and ran up to find that she had done diarrhoea in the bed. Poor thing was so tired and confused. As I came back down after cleaning up I remembered that we had gotten an email from her nursery about Rotavirus and Im guessing that is what she has got, everything seems to fit. Vomitting, diarrhoea, stomach cramps, fever and cough and runny nose! Lets hope it passes quickly....

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Dinner guests

Quick update, will try to write more tonight and also upload some photos of re-arranged bedrooms and the part this afternoon.

Last night we had a swedish family over for dinner, it was very nice to meet up, its a pity they live a bit too far from us. 

The weather has changed suddenly and its been really hot the last few days and its only mid march :S As the heat increases so does my longing to go to Sweden....


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Stinkray!

At dinner tonight A was farting and because he was laughing at the same time the air came out extra fast so he was farting like a grown man. R and J had gone upstairs to prepare her for bed as she was exhausted and A took too long to eat with all his laughing. When A was finally ready and we went up I was telling R about what happened by the table and I said that "he was farting like a..." and I couldnt come up with a word to describe it but A was quick to add "Stinkray!"

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Kensington Sportsday

J´s nursery is really trying but I still dont feel like they are getting it right, its disorganised, messy, confusing and not really thought through but its only until summer so we are closing an eye (since J is now happy and comfortable). They had a sportsday a couple of weeks ago and here are the pics we took.



Egg balancing

 



Three legged race

 

 

J with her teacher Ms. A

J had been asking me about a hundred times if she would get a medal at sportsday, luckily she got one :)




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Duplo Burj Khalifa

The kids built our own Burj Khalifa with basically all their Duplo (with some help from their dad of course)



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At hospital


Here is what it looked like at hospital when we went in for A´s gastroscopy, A watching Octonauts on the computer




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Cosy saturday

Today was a lovely relaxed end to this weekend. Felt a bit unstable in my stomach in the morning so R took the kids out for a bikeride while I relaxed on the bed. Felt much better when they came back and concluded that the lump in my throat was a sore throat more than throwing up warning. After lunch we had planned to go to DESS for International Day but A didnt feel like it and since we didnt think it was that important we decided it was up to him. Instead we took it easy on the sofa, watching Despicable Me for the 5th time. To kill some time in the afternoon we threw together some pasta dough to make ravioli however the dough didnt come that good. It was too hard and no matter how much we tried the dough remained too thick. The kids really enjoyed them though, A saying they were better than the ones they used to get in Malta :) We also had a visit from a friend and her two kids, she is so lovely and sweet and sometimes I wonder why we dont see eachother more, we have so much in common! Regardless, her visit was a lovely end to this great saturday!


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Grand Habtoor

Today we went to Grand Habtoor hotel where we have free entrance to the pool and beach club with the pilots card. It was lovely and we ended up spending all day there, leaving at 9.30, coming home at about 18.






A enjoying a chocolate icecream after lunch, totally relaxed



J absolutely bursting after pizza lunch and an icecream



Lovely deck area



The beach club part, try to spot R...



They are surely my kids, not able to resist seashells...






There was a waterslide, the kids could have kept on playing here all day long!













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Lovely days

The last few days have been really great, I have been for a SWEA lunch (Swedish Women´s Educational Association), met up with another bunch of ppl and found a friend in our area. At the same time am I forced to drive to new places and learn a little bit more every time. This afternoon we went out for a walk/bike ride and we med J´s "crush" on our street so they played a bit together. Lovely! 


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Dubai

Not a lot is going on right now, life is the same, day in day out so I thought I´d take a moment to think about how we are doing here in Dubai. I have to say that its better than I originally expected and Im happy we did make the move. The job situation in Malta seems fairly stable right now thanks to a lease of crew to another airline but that is for now and my gut feeling is still that the government have no intentions of saving AirMalta and therefore we wouldnt have felt safe and happy had we still been there. Dubai might feel a bit big and exaggerated sometimes but Im happy here, the kids are enjoying their schools and Im so happy they both got into DESS. R enjoys his job though he might feel that he is learning a bit too much about the indian geography ;) (Its well known in the pilot community that the Airbus 330 do "all" Emirates tough night flights to India). To be perfectly honest I do think its nice to have gotten further away from the in -laws, I feel so much freer lighter without their constant checking up on us, worrying and stressing out about visiting them. The only negatives I can see right now would be that I still need to make friends (and it seems to be really hard!) plus its further away from sweden which means its harder for the family to visit. They have to pay more AND need to spend more time away than they used to as now 2 whole days are lost travelling.  


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Dubai Marina

On my mums second day here we went to the Dubai Marina for a nice stroll and to take the water taxi out passed the Palm.











Atlantis hotel



We finished off with a light lunch at the food court at Marina mall to make sure we would have space for the bbq birthday dinner later on




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Market excursion

My mum was a bit interested in the spice market and I had to look for something at the gold market so one day we went to check them out. I came home empty handed but mum got saffron and vanilla pods.






We then took a boat across the creek to check out the textile market








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