The Kielys in Dubai: The maid situation

And so another month has passed by since my last entry. What can I say, the inspiration wasn't there, ot rather a lot of other things have been here to steal time and energy...

First of all, we had a fantastic week in Sweden, beautiful weather, wonderful friends and great Swedish food. The kids had a super time, we spent as much time as we could ouside, in the forest, at the farm, or just walking and walking everywhere. What a wonderful feeling!

Unfortunatelly, I came back to a crashed computer and a sick maid. The harddrive seems to have died a slow death for the last few weeks and now there seems to be no chance of survival. Well, there may be a chance if I take it to a place that fixes computers, but it´s not cheap...

Hopefully I have learnt my lesson and from now on I will always have a backup drive. I have now managed to set up Jon´s old laptop which is working ok. At least I can get on to the Internet, which is definitely most important!

Regarding the sick maid, it has been a really hard 3 weeks. We found out that she has been lying about a few things, which I couldn´t accept. Since her visa is up for renewal i 2 weeks and we had promised to pay for her visa another year, it was all really akward. In the end, I decided that I didn't want to keep her. She is too young and naive in some ways and I don't feel like I can really trust her again. So, it wouldn't work. Chathuri was not happy about this of course and she is now trying to find a new sponsor, so that she doesn't have to go back to Sri Lanka in 2 weeks.

Anyway, enough of that. My studies are not going so well anymore...like I said, been too ocupied with other things and James is now a big boy who loves to say 'no' and sleeps only 30-45 minutes a day. So, there goes my Anna-time. But a piece of good news is that James has been accepted to the nursery that we want him to go to in September. I am so happy for him, he really needs to be more active and meets more friends. Especially when it´s as hot as it is now, 37 degrees this morning 8am...

Here are some lovely photos of our Easter holidays!