Ahlaan wasahlaan (welcome to Jordan)
Yes, we've decided to do that thing I swore we wouldn't do... the family blog. First and foremost, it's a place for us to remember our time here. Even if no one reads it, this will serve as a sort of scrapbook for us. But there are a few people, mostly family probably, that want to hear more than our (Amanda's) frequent posts on Facebook and we can use this blog to explain things in more detail. Also, as my friend Jennifer said to me the other day, there are things that we see and experience every day here that are beginning to seem ordinary to us, but they're not ordinary. We are living in the middle of the Middle East, and we are getting to know this country and region in a way few people will ever get to and so we'll try to share some of the more interesting things, or our piece of the Middle East. We've been living here in Amman for just over two months now, six months for Preston, and we are officially now past the honeymoon period where everything