New Baby!

My neighbor just had a baby! She's a little bitty perfect girl. I'm not 100% on what her name is, i think it's Alaaf. Little insight into Jordanian culture: there's no baby shower before the baby is born, so the party comes after. immediately after. my neighbor came home from the hospital today and what is essentially her viewing began as soon as she did. before she went to have the baby they emptied one of the rooms in the house and filled it with farshas and against one wall they put a twin bed. for the next few days people come in and out all day to see Esthma in the bed and her new baby and sit and drink tea. specifically cinnamon tea with walnuts in it. i spent about an hour there today, listening to all the women that live close by gossiping about the other women and having babies. i realized that none of them were more than 5 years older than me and they all had at least 3 kids. weird.