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Benjamin is five months

March 28, 2012

Our baby boy Benjamin turns five months old today. March had been good to us despite my threatened breastfeeding plan. Yes, I have mentioned here or on Twitter that I’ve been taking Fenugreek supplements that helped increase my milk supply but guess what? Benjamin’s milk consumption increased, too! I felt my body couldn’t catch up! [...]

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Another friendship threatened by relocation

March 23, 2012

In our sixth year here in Dubai, we’ve said goodbye to some friends and it was not easy. Saying goodbye is probably the hardest part of expat life. However, the hardest is yet to come – at least for our young eight year old daughter. Laila (from Egypt) and Pristine had been friends since they [...]

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Thoughts and woes of a working mom

March 22, 2012

Hello, I am an expat mom and I have a confession to make: I’ve got something for SAHMs (stay at home moms). It’s called jealousy. If you blog – do you know that feeling of avoiding to write something so as not to sound whiny or ranty? I’ve had those days lately. I have suppressed [...]

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Shouldn’t have been more specific

March 17, 2012

Since the baby arrived, I have been writing and talking about him here on the blog. I do have another child, Pristine, whom I have somehow stopped writing about for a while. At 8, Pristine is very precocious and curious about everything, I mean everything and sometimes, out of the blue, she asks random questions [...]

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Not all babies love toys, I guess

March 14, 2012

At 4 months, we are already going half crazy on how to entertain the baby. The moment he wakes up, he doesn’t want to do anything with the bed at all. The little explorer don’t want to waste time to explore his world! He would want to be carried around and walked through the house. [...]

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Watch out, baby on the move!

March 11, 2012

While the world was busy spinning around its orbit and the sun occupied with a massive solar storm, something big happened in our house: the baby flipped over. If you’re an expert of translating baby’s facial expression to words, you would clearly know what he thinks about it. I mean, he really wanted to say, [...]

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Baby’s first trip to the beach

March 8, 2012

March came along with cloudless blue skies and warmer weather, which usually means one thing when you’re in Dubai: it’s beach time! I don’t need to tell you how much one of my children loves the beach. A picture is worth a thousand words! Pristine had been in love with the beach ever since we [...]

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Where is your happy place?

March 4, 2012

I hope you don’t say, McDonalds. The husband and I, we talk a lot inside the car on our way to work. It’s one of those very few times we have uninterrupted time for each other and he clearly values it by taking (almost) all the stage time and talking about everything that comes to [...]

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