Author Archives: Erin

One great thing about living abroad is picking up languages; or as quite often is the case, bits and pieces of languages.  Occasionally, these bits and pieces make their way into our everyday English conversations and become part of our family’s everyday lingo.  Here are three of the SixAbroad family’s favorite words: Capace: (pronounced cu-paw-chay)Continue reading “Three Words, Three Languages”

Note:  The real purpose of this post is to show Cecily’s prom pictures to her grandmothers.  Grandma’s really get into this kind of stuff. This weekend was the American Community School’s Prom.  Before the big event, the superintendent and his wife invited a bunch of students to come to their house and take some pictures.Continue reading “Prom”

The following is a work of art created by an up-and-coming Jordanian mosaic artist: OK, so maybe it wasn’t created by an actual artist, or an actual Jordanian.  I made it.  A while back the embassy sponsored a mosaic making class.  A mosaic artist came and taught us the old fashioned way of making mosaicsContinue reading “A Tale of Two Artists”

My life overseas is much like my life was in America.  Most of the things I do on a daily basis are the same things I did when I lived in the U.S.  Take today, for example:  This morning I got my kids off to school and my husband off to work, I spent someContinue reading “Today, Outside My Window”

Mormons are generally pretty funny people.  We can take a joke.  And we have thick skins.  We’re used to being the butt of people’s jokes.  People are constantly making fun of us.  We can take it.  In fact, we kind of like it. We were in Jerusalem earlier this week for spring break.  As weContinue reading “Funny Mormons”

Our men are gone.  One is at scout camp, one is in Dubai, one is in Germany.  So tonight is Girls Night In.  Just the girls, the cat, a big bowl of pasta con aglio ed olio, brownies and a some movies.  First movie was my choice:  “The Book Thief”.  Current movie is the 9Continue reading “Girls Night In”

It is cold and gloomy in Amman. In the desert, when it rains, it pours.  95% of the time, we enjoy beautiful blue skies and sun in Jordan.  But for the past few days it has been rainy, cold and windy.  So windy that it turns my umbrella inside out.  So windy that when IContinue reading “Gloomy”