by Deborah Quinn | Aug 14, 2012 | Abu Dhabi, expat, moving, NYC, Parenting, UAE
A year and a day ago, Husband and I knelt in front of the departure counter at JFK, enroute to our new home in Abu Dhabi, and played “rearrange the suitcases” because two of our suitcases were over the weight allotment for international travel. Liam slunk...
by Deborah Quinn | May 21, 2012 | Abu Dhabi, Blog, expat, family, moving, UAE
I celebrated our ninth month of living in Abu Dhabi by visiting New York. Not intentionally but as it happened, the only time I could line up doctors’ appointments, business meetings, and a flyby visit with my mother and sister in the wilds of New Jersey...
by Deborah Quinn | Feb 8, 2012 | Abu Dhabi, Blog, expat, moving, NYC, Travel, UAE, What's It Like?
Friends and colleagues of ours from Manhattan are moving here next year, various children in tow, and I’ve been emailing back and forth with them about all the weird little details involved with moving to…not quite the far ends of the earth but a further...
by Deborah Quinn | Oct 8, 2011 | Abu Dhabi, Children, legos, moving, shopping
We left New York in July with 12–TWELVE–suitcases in tow. For a variety of reasons we decided not to ship any personal items and instead we took full advantage of our business class tickets, which allowed us each 3 checked bags, at 26 kilos each. If...
by Deborah Quinn | Jul 24, 2011 | Abu Dhabi, Children, growing up, moving
When it came right down to it, I couldn’t throw away the craft supplies. Sparkly pipe cleaners, glitter, feathers, beads, gold paint, clay—all the stuff you need to turn delivery boxes into trains, forts, and castles, or to create Cleopatra headdresses and war...
by Deborah Quinn | Jul 12, 2011 | Abu Dhabi, Children, family, growing up, moving
So we’ve moved. Out of the apartment we’d lived in for ten years and into…nothing. Most of our stuff goes into long-term storage, some stuff already got shipped to Abu Dhabi (where we’re moving into a furnished apartment), and some stuff will get wadded into the...
