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 | 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...
by Deborah Quinn | Jun 12, 2011 | Abu Dhabi, moving
There is a lot to hate about moving: the endless sorting and sifting of belongings, the eternal search for the right-size boxes, the mess. And then there’s being confronted with the fact that as a housekeeper you rank only slightly above Templeton the rat in...
