Well, after a significant number of months, it's time to come back to this labour of love and start to update again. We've had the first term and a half of a new school. Nanny and Grandad Don visited last November and we had Christmas with the pleasure of Grandma and Grandad Michael as guests. It was the first time that we've ever shared Christmas with the Sullivan side of the family and it was wonderful for them to see how we do things here in our family home.
The girls are now well settled into school and they strengthening their friendships and progressing beautifully. Rosie is now reading almost fluently and displays a congenital lust for books and fiction. Emily is becoming quite the artist and her creations from nursery are breeding and the box of precious artwork is overflowing. Culling will, I fear, become necessary very soon.
Rosie is doing tons of after school activities and has found that she can indulge her passion for music and making stuff there which goes some way to assuaging her rage at just how much work she has to do as a big Year 1 girl and the lack of fun stuff going on in her classroom. Both girls have joined a gymnastics club and their confidence on the beam, the bars and the trampoline grows weekly. I'm not sure that we have any Olympic hopefuls on our hands but they are getting strong and supple and most importantly they are having a great deal of fun.
The weather at the moment is Dubai is just perfect. Imagine the most perfect English summer day; blue sky, warm breeze and sunshine. We are spending as much time as we can outside before the hot weather arrives. It won't be long before the soles of our shoes start to melt if we stand in one place for long enough.
We're approaching our half year anniversary of moving to Dubai. It's not always been easy and we have a long way to go before we can honestly call this place home. There have been more positives than negatives to the move and this bodes well for our happy future. Patience is the key to the process.
