February, 27th 2021

 Managing to have nearly precisely one month of radio silence on the blogg was not what I imagined when I started this again. They say, time flies when you have fun.
Well, time flew and to be honest, not everything was fun. 

I really have to get better to write even when I feel stressed otherwise this project will never take off. But I have always been awfully bad in sharing my worries especially in a more public manner. And what could be more public than an open blogg on the internet. 

My dearest husband had to leave for his first business trip roughly four weeks ago. This is a long and complicated story but to make it short and simple: the whole trip was already a bit delayed. Then he got to his destination and things took time. A lot of time. And they got stalled. And complicated. And when one part was solved surely enough another part was putting up new hinders again. So he has basically been gone for a much, much longer time than planned and me and the children were left to our own devices. 

During this time we were on trips, which I will report on, we had lazy days at the beach and at home in mass, we painted, we read, we had a short stint in a hospital and we were school hunting. We were also a lot on our own and this was not always fun. 

Things got tense when our oldest son developed a strange stomach pain which led to a nightly visit in the ER with the fear for an appendicitis which led to an ultrasound that showed swollen lymph nodes in the abdominal area which led to discussions with the health insurance until we could get a CT scan which led to sleepless nights because I really, really got worried which led to a long Saturday in the hospital with admission for one night until we finally got to know that it was "only" a bacterial infection that could be treated with antibiotics. This took roughly two weeks from the first symptoms until the clearance and prescription of medication. And as you might have guessed - that is the part that was not so much fun. 

Now he is well again and since we all now gave up the idea that my husband will be able to make a precise prediction on what day he will be home (it could be anytime from today up until another week or two), we all just get along with it, with many, many Zoom calls and continuing to exploring our new home and fixing our lives here. So next up is school but for now I will take you on the trips we made within Dubai.