It's daunting to move to a new country and adapt to new customs, diets, and hurdles... It sounds like you are doing a fantastic job at rolling with the tides :) Wishing you success at receiving a residency

Shucks, thank you so much for that! 💚🤗

Thanks for checking out my posts, the well wishes, and caring to hear about my wacky life!! 💗😄

😍 Hey lovely! Awe thank you so much my kindhearted friend!! 💗😄

Oh wow! Thank you so much for picking my post to be included with all these awesome ladies! 💗😍🎉

Shucks, thank you!! 💕 I spent too many years of my 20's not following my heart, I had a lot to make up for to it! It makes me really happy that folks are rooting for us here, we met on Hive, so in many

Hehe now you know why that resonated with me so deeply 😍 I really believe so too. I tell my daughter all the time that the only way to fail is to give up, sometimes I tell myself that too. Sure, I have

Thank you my friend 🤗 I sure hope so too, and expeditiously!! haha 💚

It was so nice and I started to get used to it 😂! When I came back to the US I had a lot of reverse culture shock and one instance was definitely how easily strange men will try to talk to you here for

Here's my post :)! Really fun topics this week, thank you 💗

It's really admirable that you'd still like to learn to swim after such an experience! I think facing our fears is one of the hardest things to do in life. I hope you get the chance to learn someday in

What a beautiful write up 😍!! It sure sounds like you've been through hell and back and stayed your best despite that. This is something to be immensely proud of I think! I certainly would give your Netflix

I think the seed of any great story is the desire to share. Don't compare yourself to anyone else, and celebrate the times you DO share. I bet you are wonderful all in your own right, and many would be

Will you change your name to deirdyweirdybeardy now?? ahahahaha

I had to go back home to the USA after, I traveled to see my husband vs. taking a vacation, so any travel money is to go back and forth to the middle east for the foreseeable future haha

I think the Middle East, particularly places like Syria, are heavily stigmatized in the US. For sure the way many think I'd have been treated there couldn't be farther from the truth! I hope things go

I'd have loved to visit Palmyra or Aleppo while there, but it just wasn't safe to do so, oh well I'll get there next time I'm in Syria! The good thing is that with my husband being from there, I'll be

It was odd, but honestly it was a sort of odd place for me to be in the first place. Were I not married to a Syrian people would probably think I was fully insane 😂

It really did feel like a once-in-a-lifetime experience! I sure hope things continue to improve, it is such a vibrant country and the people there deserve a solid chance after all these years of turmoil

It really was! I sat at the border with hubs for 10 days the first time I tried to get in when the Assad regime was still in power, and then was finally able to go through later on, the difference was