Pristine

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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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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The year Christmas changed for me

December 23, 2011

Do you have that one Christmas memory that stand out from the rest? That one night that changed your life. Forever. I have one – it was the Christmas I first became a mom eight years ago. It was an emotional experience (I’m not talking about the labor and delivery as that is quite emotional [...]

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Pristine, the moon and the baby

December 11, 2011

There’s no curtain in one of our bedrooms where our 8 year old daughter Pristine sleeps. There used to be but after we took it down and washed it, no one really bothered to put it back up again. It’s actually good – Pristine wakes up naturally to morning light coming in (has no effect [...]

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She doesn’t have a shoe fetish, for now

October 9, 2011

My daughter and I, I noticed are so different and as she grows older, I have observed those differences more and more. I am not talking about the physical aspect, as that is a given – born to parents from two different countries, only a few people will say she looks like me. Sometimes, people [...]

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The uniform saga continues

October 6, 2011

It was too early for me to celebrate the fact that Pristine’s school didn’t require us to buy new uniforms for the new school year. On the first day of school, she was wearing her old uniform in Grade 2. And everything was well. …until we received a newsletter saying that while there is no [...]

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First day of school, 2011

September 11, 2011

I slept at 8:30 pm last night but greedy as this might sound, I’m sleepy at work today. It’s the first day of school for 2011 here in Dubai and like a new student excited for class, I was giddy. I felt my eyes were closed last night but my mind was fully awake thinking [...]

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From 1 child to 2 children is making me emotional

September 3, 2011

I’ve just come back from four days of staying at home celebrating the Eid holidays by eating, sleeping and watching TV. I swear I’ve created a dent in the sofa. While I was busy making my butt bigger, my pregnancy journey progressed – I am now on my 32nd week. That figure stopped me right [...]

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