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Latest post on 03 July 2012 - 23:25

Hello, everyone! I've been doing a little lurking around the website & forums for the past 8 months or so (ever since my husband and I decided we would be moving to Dubai). He's been here for a year & a half, and my daughter (who will be 9 in a few days) and I arrived 2 weeks ago! We're finally getting settled in (sort of) and making our way around the city. We moved from the states, although we spent a year in London before that (my husband seems to love to move around for work). It's so nerve-wracking being in a new city (let alone 8,000 miles away from home!) but I am truly excited to be here (mostly because our family is finally reunited again after such a long time apart!). I'm thrilled to get to know all of you and hear the advice you have to share, both from seasoned professional and newbies like myself! There's so much do to: new doctors, dentists, piano teachers, dermatologists, schools, salons for massages or manicures and pedicures, where to get the best margarita (I think this is the longest I've gone without one!), shoe shopping, finding all new products since you can't always find your favorites from "back home" (especially because it will be a major experiment to keep my hair from going flat and frizzy in this heat!) --- just everything! My to-do list seems never ending. And why is it I can never seem to hang my pictures up on the walls (on my own) in a new place that looks as pleasing as it does when I have my mother around to help give a 2nd opinion?!?! So -- tell me everything I need to know! I would just love to get out and meet some other moms, and I would love, love, love for my daughter to meet some new friends. She is so lonely for "back home" and all her friends, her uncles, and her grandparents (we're all very close) and in the 2 weeks we've been here, she's cried more than I've expected and it's broken my heart! I definitely don't want it to be a long, sad, or boring summer! So how many of you are just on the boards? Have a lot of you actually gone outside of the boards and met in person? Kids meet up together for playdates? Anyone shop together at the mall or do the coffee mornings or hit the beach together? Also, random question -- but I'm dying to know -- how do things go for you during Ramadan? What's it like? My husband works a lot, but I stay at home -- so it will just be my daughter and me over the summer, until school starts! I'm looking forward to getting to know the city and figure out my way around., but more importantly -- getting to know all of you -- hopefully on AND off the boards, and anything you wish to teach me!!!!! Off to read some more posts, learn my way around the boards, and do more research!!!!!

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