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Latest post on 05 September 2011 - 16:25
If I am struggling getting enough fruit into child, I make smoothies...glass full of goodness and both her and her daddy think they're a treat ;)
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Latest post on 05 September 2011 - 16:14
oh *phew* sugarbeach, you must be feeling mightily relieved right now. lets hope once you can get her 'going' properly that you will see an end to the tummy aches. (try her on kiwifruit, beetroot, seedless maderins, sultana's, raisins, grapes, pineapple....all sweet, so yummy, and chocked full of fibre) good luck!
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Latest post on 05 September 2011 - 15:41
choice bro :D
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Latest post on 05 September 2011 - 09:23
eeerr, we only have one account between ourselves....old fashioned, us. Our main account is ours. I then have a work account (obviously wouldn't send anything from and boring to read) then he has junk accounts for apps he downloads and forums he joins which have never been the place to send an email from. My FB is signed in from his iPhone all the time - doesn't bother me. Does it matter if h emails from your account? As long as it isn't a work account everyone knows you're a married couple - one team. My hubby has a work account as well obviously, but we really have only one email address and we've had that since we married. Think it has the same password too! lol. We are purely lazy as well not having anything to hide from each other. He knows if he opens something from a girlfriend of mine it may well be something to make his face burn ;), and he'll peruse my FB. I am the 'communication manager' in our household, and therefore the font of all knowledge. Saves him from having to spend the time maintaining long distance relationships and he still gets all the news (and keep his friends)
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Latest post on 05 September 2011 - 08:45
'blue job'. quote'> Took me a while to realise you meant "boy" job and not p&rn!!!! filthy chick :D
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Latest post on 05 September 2011 - 08:27
I gave up trying to deal with Du 5 years ago. It is, in my books a 'blue job'. Hubby gets the pleasure. He also gets to play with the banks.
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Latest post on 05 September 2011 - 08:18
I don't think Sandy can tell him off, because (sorry Sandy!) she started it :D so really he is just continuing it - it has to be DH that handles it while she disappears into the background. It's a lesson for us on how different cultures perceive different actions - I remember DH (who has lived in ME all his life) being bemused when I pitched up and started merrily waving at all the car washers/security guards etc in his building - I also got myself into a very sticky situation with a plumber when I started making him tea/biscuits etc (like you would in the UK for a plumber!!) and generally being OTT friendly and next thing he was following me round the house trying to hold my hand and I had to lock myself in a room and call friend for help, it was quite scary and totally my own doing!! It is a very British thing not to want to appear rude and we are OTT as a result, but unfortunately sometimes we don't understand how we are perceived by other cultures and we come across in a totally different light...:\: Exactly right BM.
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Latest post on 05 September 2011 - 08:12
We did 3 nights on a houseboat...the length of the backwaters...it was absolutely stunning. For your fussy eater, please take supplies. Our very fussy eater wouldnt even eat the rice because it was the fat fluffy kernals not the basmati she is accustomed to.
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Latest post on 04 September 2011 - 20:12
eeerr, we only have one account between ourselves....old fashioned, us.
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Latest post on 04 September 2011 - 17:21
Our daughter can use a tummy ache to control a situation that she is uncertain of if that makes any sense? So if she doesnt feel on top of a situation, we will get a tummy ache, we get attention, we feel we can handle whats happening to some extent. Certainly the attention is focused straight back on herself. We've found that we're so used to her beiing a brave brash kind of kid, that we're treating her as if she has the understanding of certain things much older than she actually is. Which obviously isnt the case. It might be something similar...how old is your DD? Ours will certainly limit the range of food she eats when uncertain, and like yours, has a limited palate in the first place.
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Latest post on 04 September 2011 - 17:08
dare you :D
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Latest post on 04 September 2011 - 17:07
New school? New environment somewhere? Holiday away from dxb? Moved house? Has anything at all, no matter how small changed for her? Lil miss's tummy gets mysteriously upset when she is stressed about anything, even if it doesnt appear on our radar as something to be upset about.
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Latest post on 04 September 2011 - 16:58
Hows this for a plan...get hubby to have a natter with him. Just say, that My wife has work to do, can't get to door, we will happily leave water out for you and your crew, but please don't knock on the door as she has many important things to do. (you never know, you could work from home and be selling billions of stock on wall street, right?) Can all be done friendly manner, but I don't think it'll work unless hubby takes the time to do the needful hon.
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Latest post on 04 September 2011 - 16:54
Just did the Mall with all the other frazzled Mums getting ready for school. Lil Miss hasnt worn proper shoes for 3 months, so EVERY pair in every shop felt horrible. (Eventually bought her a pair exactly like her dads just to get it done with, she'll get used to it) Since she has grown something like 6 feet over the holiday we had to do all new knickers and socks...take them out, measure them to make sure they'll fit, and then she doesnt want them because they've been 'crumpled', and do you know how many shops have plain white socks and decent knickers left? NONE. And I can't talk about what happened in the hair tie aisle yet. It's wine o clock, right?
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Latest post on 04 September 2011 - 16:43
Can hubby tell him not to knock (nicely)? I know we feel a bit helpless, and it's annoying to have to get a man to do our 'business' for us, but.... I think we've all made the mistake of being normally friendly to someone, a service provider, and having it come back and bite us on the bum. But something has to give, you can't be held hostage in your house because the whole thing makes you uncomfortable.
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Latest post on 04 September 2011 - 09:30
Do you mean like the Intex type ones you can get at Ace and the supermarkets? I have never seen a 4m deep one, but we have one that is just over a meter deep. We love it, keep a gazebo over it to keep it cool, and have swum all summer. The filter system is relatively efficient, and we just have a hose vaccuum thing for the bottom. Maintaining it has been really rather simple.
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Latest post on 03 September 2011 - 20:16
Hubby said it was the most painfully boring kids movie he has ever had to sit through, and he sits through them all. The girls loved it though. Sugar coated blue fluff from the sounds of it. Please tell me he hasn't then seen Zookeeper? That, for me, was awful, even my 4 year old said I don't think he has had that particular pleasure yet :D
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Latest post on 03 September 2011 - 19:27
any vege soup....devine. *mental note to self: best make a pot*
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Latest post on 03 September 2011 - 19:26
Hubby said it was the most painfully boring kids movie he has ever had to sit through, and he sits through them all. The girls loved it though. Sugar coated blue fluff from the sounds of it.
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Latest post on 03 September 2011 - 18:31
argh! I did, I did! Just been REALLY hopeless with my correspondence with Eid...be in touch again tomorrow when things return to what passes for normality round here. Sorry! x
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Latest post on 03 September 2011 - 16:22
best not to hand over the keys til you have the money in your hands. Other than that not too sure of actual process anymore.
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Latest post on 03 September 2011 - 15:07
We just did a day there on our last trip....super super humid and VERY busy (school holidays) lil miss got heat stroke but loved every second of it.
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Latest post on 03 September 2011 - 11:51
oooo DR, an admission of cruelty to jellybabies ONLINE!!! They'll be coming knocking for sure now :D
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Latest post on 03 September 2011 - 10:58
not amused enough to snort liquid, but.
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Latest post on 03 September 2011 - 10:57
wrong choice of words then...am amused by what people find to 'rant' about :D
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Latest post on 03 September 2011 - 10:55
You know...we visited the Springs 5 years ago when househunting, and roundly vowed and declared we would NEVER live there. 2 years of apartment living later and hating every second of it, we moved to the Springs 3 years ago and still to this day love it. Love our garden, love our house even if it is falling to bits, shabby, cramped and held together with more dust and prayer than you can shake a stick at. While apartment living may suit some people, it's not for us. Horrible, noise, neighbours, construction, traffic, and the lugging of groceries...not to mention having to heft every piece of equipment you need for outdoor activities, up and down lifts and hallways.
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Latest post on 03 September 2011 - 10:37
I never fail to be amused by what some people can find to be offended about.....
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Latest post on 02 September 2011 - 10:02
Coming up to the season as well when they hold the smaller tri's out at Ghantoot, will ask hubby when he is back what the series is called, but maybe google dubai triathlon? Was investigating an indoor lap pool for himself at the begining of the summer and the swim club at a school was suggested, they do training swims each night I think, but worth a look for more details. Wolfies group do training cycles early friday mornings, but be aware that even the 'short' group are a very fast pack Yas opens the track for cycle training...can't remember if it's a particular night/or nights, but worth investigating. Coming up as well, our race track in dubai (forget what it's called...out at Motor City?) gets sponsered for opening to the public to cycle Look into AISS (Austrailian International Swim School) for a one on one coach. They hold their sessions at pools all over town. Don't forget to practise swim training in the actual sea....it's quite a different experience doing a mass sea start than some laps in the local pool. hth
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Latest post on 02 September 2011 - 09:01
Had the opposite when lil miss was newborn, she hated me! Would only ever settle with her dad, screamed the house down when ever I went near her. We had a particularly traumatic birth and she appeared to blame me for it. The first night of her life she just lay next to me staring at me with absolute mistrust...it's a horrible feeling. Later when breast feeding it all settled down, so this will pass. If youre feeding her, it's a just a wee phase. Maybe express some milk if BF'ing and get daddy to bottle feed her when she's happy and relaxed. Have them take a bath togther, all that skin on skin contact helps with bonding.
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Latest post on 31 August 2011 - 08:12
I will do my bit by going to the beach for picnic breakfast...that should do it :D
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Latest post on 31 August 2011 - 08:11
You definitely have to set up a company in Thailand to buy property there, it's a pretty straight forward process and very common. They've changed the visa staus's of property owners as well, but I can't quite remember what the story was there as I was talking to a retiree, and the process was different for his wife and himself than say for the likes of us.
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Latest post on 30 August 2011 - 12:28
What would hubby say if shoe was on other foot and YOU bought property somewhere? Completely out of blue, no consultation and seemingly on a whim? Would he say, oh well, nothing to worry about? Are your finances seperate? Do you regularly invest your own money as you see fit? I nearly bought a classic car instead of a house last year but fortunately snapped out of my dream world in time to not make the purchase. All I had to do to remember was the amount of trouble I got in when I accidently spent the bus money to get us out of Nepal on a sparkly ring insead. To my mind investments are a joint decision, planned together and agreed upon. If he has had 3 weeks with you, there is ample time to discuss options if he was planning on buying property somewhere. Have you talked to him again recently about this? Really let him know that you are upset enough to conscider not returning to Dubai? Has this woken him up a bit? Maybe you need to come back to have a proper talk with him, but I would also think about heading to Thailand to see for myself just what he has bought, particularly if discussion proves unsatisfactory. Hope that things turn out well for you. x
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Latest post on 30 August 2011 - 11:03
Yep, I called a place and all open...woot!
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Latest post on 30 August 2011 - 10:32
Can't plan where to go til I know :D
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Latest post on 30 August 2011 - 10:21
Bright Star Kids do some pretty neat labels as well for all the school kit.
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Latest post on 30 August 2011 - 10:20
Is it dry today? Have no lil miss, and hubby wants to take me out for a nice lunch (a rare and wonderful thing) thanks
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Latest post on 30 August 2011 - 09:43
Theres a sunglass stand near the food court, geant end, of Ibn Battuta. Got lil miss a really funky pair of glasses there just the other day. hth
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Latest post on 29 August 2011 - 19:58
Thanks Jules...we're chiro people, and for the same reasons as you do osteo...guessing we'll do a visit to dr gary, but really getting desperate now....she is up SO late, and school is in a week, something has to give. <em>edited by arohadxb on 29/08/2011</em>
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Latest post on 29 August 2011 - 19:32
JulesLC...was it you who mentioned reading from "the special book"? If so, I'm sorry, I forgot to acknowledge your post....If I thought that would help, then yes...all for it, but in this case, I don't think we're dealing with the same problem. Wits end now, thinking of medicating child to break cycle. (I know, I know. But desperate, and school is a week away)
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Latest post on 29 August 2011 - 08:28
Thanks Moustique, I'll have a look for the book. 2 current theories...one: she has been travelling with either her dad, myself or the 2 of us for over a month...sleeping in the same room, going to bed at the same time etc. So she's going through a rather noisy transition back to 'normality' 2: she's picking up subconciously on our possible move.
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Latest post on 29 August 2011 - 08:25
Hubby says that it'll be cloudy tonight so no moon, likey spotted tomorrow night. How much you can rely on one of his forecasts is another story entirely......
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Latest post on 28 August 2011 - 09:30
yet when they changed the page last time everyone moaned about the beige! lol...I quite like the maroon banner, just the font is very unpleasing
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Latest post on 28 August 2011 - 08:37
Thanks ladies...thats at least given us some strategies...and have had himself read the thread so we're on the same page and what we'll do is begin a process with her well before bedtime tonight, so at the very least he's just not plain annoyed and wanting her to just go to sleep!. Lil miss is 6 and a half, going on 16 in most things. We've always had a bed time routine right from day dot, she has favourite stuffed toys that sleep with her. Luckily not a special snuggly, she rotates them herself depending on who her fav is at any given moment. (We have lost a special rabbit before, left it in a tuk tuk in Sri Lanka...the drama!) We talk during the day about what is scaring her, but she can't say...just that she is scared to sleep. She hears noises and sees eyes in the dark. It's not dark though, theres the night light, the loo light and the hall light on...it's lit up like a christmas tree, so she must be seeing the 'eyes' when she closes hers. I blame scooby doo...boomerang is the tv channel of choice...but she is adament it's not (and this part I believe is just because she doesnt want me to ban the channel...where else is she getting 'demon sharks' from?). She would have me believe it's the story 'the christmas carol' that is frightening her, but i find that very hard to believe given she has had the book for over a year now, read it numerous times and watched the movie many times in that year as well. Where ever it has come from, it appears that these ghosties and ghoulies are firmly lodged in her imagination now, and looking back on my terror's at night when only a little older than she is now, I really want to handle this in a way so the memory of nights doesnt lodge in her mind as it has in mine.
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Latest post on 27 August 2011 - 21:21
So lil miss has decided she is scared to go to bed...out and out terrified, hysterics, up and down the stairs 574 times. Her dad has decided it's all hollywood, and just leads her straight back to bed, firmly (then increasingly crossly) only to have her bounce back down the stairs 2 seconds later...no joke, I can hear the jingle jangle of her bracelets before he has even reached the landing. I've been relegated to observation because, as usual, I enter into far too much discussion with the child and we go in circles and still she won't stay in bed. Tonight alone she has had her fav. TV programme banned (for life if her Dad has anything to do with it) and our aqua adventure adventure tomorrow has been cancelled...he's very good at following through with threats. The problem I have is, I remember when I was about her age and how terrified I was to go to bed/sleep. All my fears were hugely real to me and yet given the times in which I was raised, we would rather have wet the bed than get up and disturb our old fashioned dad. What if, how awful I felt, is how my girl feels now, and all this backwards and forwards is because she CAN approach us with her fears, unlike when I was a little one? What if this strict, grumpy parent, go the goodness sake to sleep routine is wrong? We do the whole bed time routine, do the whole...nothing to be scared of, reassurance, happy thoughts, nice bedtime book, snuggles...and still the kid is beside her self. Thoughts? Where am I going to get a happy balance in this? And how are we going to solve it? TIA
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Latest post on 27 August 2011 - 17:34
Thanks arohadxb, may take you up on the offer when the World Cup comes around! Although hubby's gotten used to the internet after not having a tv for a couple years, it would be nice to watch a game without constant freezes and sound lag... And yes, it's great the ABs got a wee kick, all the more ready for the World Cup! The sound lag may have helped some ;) Has your hubby noticed all the finals are on a sunday? Himself has had to put in leave, lol! But yep, if we're not at neza's we're here watching, so youre more than welcome to join us. In fact one of our friends just bought some giant eff off screen in honour of the RWC, so we may well be there too :)
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Latest post on 27 August 2011 - 16:09
just quietly... You ozzies deserved the tri nations...you beat the safa's on their home ground, woot! Thanks :D Welcome...you can have the tri nations but we'll take the World Cup m'dear :D
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Latest post on 27 August 2011 - 16:04
Gaaahhh! at least we ended up with more than 3 points on the board....eventually. At least it wasnt the RWC and the AB's got a decent kick up the behind. No more choking boys! (Think hubby will have a conniption AND a heart attack if we have to watch one more game like that ;) PS:just quietly... You ozzies deserved the tri nations...you beat the safa's on their home ground, woot!
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Latest post on 27 August 2011 - 13:38
ergh, internet. You can come to ours if you like? So long as you don't mind my messy house, but the beer is cold :)
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Latest post on 27 August 2011 - 12:37
bidi bondi. We're staying home to watch though so we can have a beer or 3.
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are you sure neza's is actually closed though? Might be open, just dry?
 
 
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