1st Bithday!!

OMG it's been a year!! Reda is 1year habeby!! :') you are the best gift from Allah..what would my life be without this face...i know we say that about each child but no no this baby is totally different :)

may Allah guide u and your brother and sister. 

we had a really good day with friends here in Dubai. I just planned the birthday/goodbye party last minute, my neighbor was traveling the next day to Lebanon, Zaid's best friend Khaled in school also moving to Lebanon, and us moving to Qatar next week!!

it's been crazy, stressful, new, and adventuress :D I met really nice friends and neighbors. 

I met Amani at the lobby of our new apartment and Khale'd mom at the school..she is one mazing lady mashallah...why? cus 3 months ago she told me that Khaled is not her son!! stepmother!!!! i would never guessed she is better than alot of moms subhanallah!!! she gives me hope in this crazy life.

But my first friends were in Armada, Lubna and Arwa. we met at the playground and we just clicked, its like we have been looking for each other :) Lubna talked to me first and we laughed cus she lived in the tiny apartment beneath us in Armada tower..then met Arwa who lived in the next tower, born and raised in New Jersey! we just clicked right away...we became like sisters. I was having the panic attacks at that time...Ammar just started traveling, I was taking the kids to school, picking up Lana at 12:30 then having to wait for Zaid until 2:15 while dragging baby Reda with me in the crazy heat and Ammar refusing to put Zaid in the school bus.

then we were forced to leave that apartment cus of that crazy owner, I went to Saudi while Ammar moved to MAG218 in the beautiful marina. I came back to this new large apartment Ammar left us again....and ever since that trip (still in Armada), we have not been seeing Ammar...only like 3 days a month if we r lucky! and it is affecting the kids... i can't forget when Zaid talked in his sleep and said, "baba plz talk to us on Skype". did i mention that Ammar travels and doesn't speak to us for dayyys!:D 

Lana would mention her dad around bedtime...( i need another post for that!!!)

But subhanallah for Allah's mercy...in Armada Allah send me those girls, and in MAG Allah send me my mother in law who came to see her son coming from California with his family! it was perfect timing and breath of fresh air. the kids had fun with their cousins and grandmother..

my mother in law came for a second visit too.

 Slowly i became more confident in dealing with the new move... I started to feel safe knowing i have neighbors to call, planning things with them for the kids..life became fun and bright :)

My sisters also came to visit..we had the BEST TIME alhamdulilah :) My dad also came for some work 2 weeks ago to Sharjah, drove to see him everyday :) it was really good...drove again last week to attend  the engagement of Rasha (my cousn's daughter Rana) who last time i saw 10 years ago in Jordan! seeing my other aunt Shareefeh and her daughter Om Ali who came from Tartos in Syria too..makes u think...what life would be without family and good friends...alhamdulilah

any way right now I'm loving Dubai...it's a good place to live where everything is available...this needs another post! u r just a phone call away from everything u want...it is perfect for me!

I'm really going to miss Dubai