I’m back .. my story so far ..

Its been over a year since my last post. Alot has happened in the past year. Alot of blessings, a few tragedies but eventually we were all hit by the silent twister called Covid 19.

I won’t bore you with the details, but we moved to Toronto, CA., in the summer of 2019.

Dubai has/had been our home for nearly 27 years.

The transition was not an easy one, as expected. Its hard to uproot a tree and just place it elsewhere. New surroundings, new environment, new people, new culture, new everything. But I’ve always believed that CHANGE is always for the best. We tend to live in our comfort zone – its easy, it convenient, but its NOT progress. In order to progress, one must move. One must adapt to change. Change can be within or outwardly as well.

In order to make such a drastic move, called for immense planning and organization. Months of endless garage sales to dispose our furniture, tons of kitchen ware, garden ware etc, selling our cars, selling our villas, managing scores of documentation for ourselves and our eight cats. One 40 feet container, 10 suitcases and 8 cat carriers later, we landed in Toronto.

Gosh, how easily I wrote that entire sentence forgoing the millions of incidents, goof ups, episodes of rage, emotional dramas AND confusions, we went through. But I suppose, we all go through those phases. Nothing worthwhile, is found, just lying around. One has to endure, one has to struggle, one has to pay the price of hardships to succeed, as did we.

I will be sharing the story of my cat-travels in another post. But for now, I am counting my blessings. Blessings of being surrounded by love from my children, my husband, my cats and some very good people.

Buying a house, getting our driving license, unpacking 300 cartons, school admissions, university admissions, were some of the larger milestones that we accomplished. We stay in the city of Kitchener now.

Our new home. Our new address. Our new pin code. Bizarre, ain’t it ? Last year this time, we were munching shawarma’s and Hardee’s burgers in Dubai and today, we have become such at-home eaters.

Which brings me to the another new development. I have started uploading videos on my Youtube channel. Presently, becoz its Ramadan, I have been sharing tutorials on Indian dishes. However, I will start posting the link to my Crafts and Diy tutorials here too.

My Youtube Channel – Naush Samama

Getting the house organized has been an ongoing process. We still have cartons stacked in virtually ALL the rooms. But we are getting there. Slow and steady.

There have been a few DIY revamps, that I attempted as well.

Hopefully, I’ll share some of those as well in other posts.

For those of you who are in Dubai or Middle-East, and would like to know what are some of the bigger compromises, that we made in adjusting to the lifestyle here, please feel free to ask in the comments. I will be happy to share them.

Life is good. And happiness is not seeking something. Happiness is being with those whom you love and who love you back equally. May you all find that happiness within you.

Here is a glimpse of some of the few beautiful landscapes, we left behind.