Pristine

From the same mould!

May 24, 2012

I scoured through old photo albums my husband has brought back from Japan and found baby photos of Pristine, our now 8 year old daughter. People always comment how Pristine and Benjamin look so much the same, cut from the same piece of cloth so to speak so to see if it’s really the case, [...]

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Dealing with the stigma of food allergies

May 12, 2012

Our baby has started to eat solid food and boy does he love his food! He would say, ‘Mmmm’ with a look of delight on his face during feeding time. Since he is just starting, I am sticking to rice/oat cereals and vegetables and fruits; no condiments, spices or even salt. Nothing commercial, all made [...]

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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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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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January a-photo-a-day, day 20

January 20, 2012

Today’s prompt: Someone you love Meet Pristine, my 8 year old daughter. She’s been the center of my life, for almost 8 years until I found out we were having another baby last year. For a while there I was scared of the fact that I have another child to love, asking myself how is [...]

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I’ve got twins, 8 years apart

January 3, 2012

Would you believe that there are two different babies in the above photos? Two photos for each. Our new baby is a spitting image of his older sister when she was a baby. They look so much alike that I am already pretty pretty sure, they’ll fight over their baby pics someday in the future [...]

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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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