<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0"><channel><title>Latest entries from displacedamerican.blog-city.com</title><link>http://displacedamerican.blog-city.com/</link><description></description><copyright>Copyright 2009 displacedamerican.blog-city.com</copyright><generator></generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:07:00 GMT</lastBuildDate><image><title>Latest entries from displacedamerican.blog-city.com</title><url>http://server1.blog-city.com/images/bc_v5_logo_small.gif</url><link>http://displacedamerican.blog-city.com/</link></image><ttl>360</ttl><docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss</docs><item><title>Favorite Things: Books for Beginning Readers</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://displacedamerican.blog-city.com/favorite_things_books_for_beginning_readers.htm</guid><link>http://displacedamerican.blog-city.com/favorite_things_books_for_beginning_readers.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 04:49:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://displacedamerican.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=favorite%5Fthings%5Fbooks%5Ffor%5Fbeginning%5Freaders</comments><dc:creator>andrea</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[With the holidays approaching, I thought I would steal this idea from a friend and start posting some of our favorite things in this household.&nbsp; My hope is to not only inspire others who are looking for gift ideas, but also to encourage you to p]]></description><category>favorites</category><category>tate</category></item><item><title>time-out</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://displacedamerican.blog-city.com/timeout.htm</guid><link>http://displacedamerican.blog-city.com/timeout.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:19:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://displacedamerican.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=timeout</comments><dc:creator>andrea</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I really wish I had time to post more than just a quick photo or a cursory kid anecdote.&nbsp;&nbsp; I have so much to say, just not enough time to really write it out!So right now as I type this, the kids are playing their version of &quot;time-out.]]></description></item><item><title>Tate&apos;s official Kindergarten photo</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://displacedamerican.blog-city.com/tates_official_kindergarten_photo.htm</guid><link>http://displacedamerican.blog-city.com/tates_official_kindergarten_photo.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 02:51:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://displacedamerican.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=tates%5Fofficial%5Fkindergarten%5Fphoto</comments><dc:creator>andrea</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[It&#39;s not his most natural smile, but I love the photo nonetheless!&nbsp; My favorite thing is how it shows his missing tooth.&nbsp; Of course two weeks after this photo was taken, he lost *another* tooth (right next to the first one).&nbsp; At th]]></description><category>tate</category><category>pics</category><category>kindergarten</category></item><item><title>Little Matryoshka</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://displacedamerican.blog-city.com/little_matryoshka.htm</guid><link>http://displacedamerican.blog-city.com/little_matryoshka.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 03:56:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://displacedamerican.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=little%5Fmatryoshka</comments><dc:creator>andrea</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[You know how some kids have a lovey?&nbsp; Or a blankie?&nbsp; Well Felicity has her &quot;sherts,&quot; which consist of five of my old shirts in various colors.&nbsp; She carries them around with her everywhere, cannot leave the house without at le]]></description><category>felicity</category><category>pics</category></item><item><title>one step at a time...</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://displacedamerican.blog-city.com/one_step_at_a_time.htm</guid><link>http://displacedamerican.blog-city.com/one_step_at_a_time.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 05:13:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://displacedamerican.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=one%5Fstep%5Fat%5Fa%5Ftime</comments><dc:creator>andrea</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The medicine saga continues.&nbsp; We tried a half a dozen more methods today to see if he could get the medicine down.&nbsp; The good news is (knock on wood) I think I finally cracked his code.He WILL take this medicine, but only if it is in *extrem]]></description><category>tate</category><category>sick</category><category>parenthood</category></item><item><title>IT&apos;S A TEASPOON.</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://displacedamerican.blog-city.com/its_a_teaspoon.htm</guid><link>http://displacedamerican.blog-city.com/its_a_teaspoon.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 06:24:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://displacedamerican.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=its%5Fa%5Fteaspoon</comments><dc:creator>andrea</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I am so exhausted and frustrated I don&#39;t even know if I have the mental fortitude to write about it.&nbsp; Here is the Reader&#39;s Digest version:&nbsp; Tate. Double ear infection. 104 temp.&nbsp; Miserable, miserable, MISERABLE.&nbsp;]]></description><category>parenthood</category><category>sick</category><category>tate</category></item><item><title>first step towards a better smile...</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://displacedamerican.blog-city.com/first_step_towards_a_better_smile.htm</guid><link>http://displacedamerican.blog-city.com/first_step_towards_a_better_smile.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:32:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://displacedamerican.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=first%5Fstep%5Ftowards%5Fa%5Fbetter%5Fsmile</comments><dc:creator>andrea</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Today is my official start day of my Invisalign  treatment.&nbsp; I haven&#39;t really told many people that I&#39;m doing this, but I&#39;m excited about it and thought I would try to document my progress here on my blog.Invisalign is a series of cl]]></description><category>invisalign</category></item><item><title>You know it&apos;s been a rough day when...</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://displacedamerican.blog-city.com/you_know_its_been_a_rough_day_when.htm</guid><link>http://displacedamerican.blog-city.com/you_know_its_been_a_rough_day_when.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 04:02:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://displacedamerican.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=you%5Fknow%5Fits%5Fbeen%5Fa%5Frough%5Fday%5Fwhen</comments><dc:creator>andrea</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[...you find yourself at the end of the day downing three Motrin and a fistful of Halloween candy with a glass of pear cider. The kids have been driving me nuts this week.&nbsp; Aside from fighting over everything including air space, they are getting]]></description><category>parenthood</category></item><item><title>Well at least he&apos;s consistent.</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://displacedamerican.blog-city.com/well_at_least_hes_consistent.htm</guid><link>http://displacedamerican.blog-city.com/well_at_least_hes_consistent.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 03:53:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://displacedamerican.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=well%5Fat%5Fleast%5Fhes%5Fconsistent</comments><dc:creator>andrea</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[So by now -- November 3 -- Tate has sifted and picked his way through his entire Halloween treat bag and managed to eat all of the little M&amp;M bags.&nbsp; Which means he is now left with 5 pounds of &quot;other&quot; types of candy.&nbsp; For a no]]></description><category>halloween</category><category>tate</category><category>food</category><category>parenthood</category></item><item><title>Halloween &apos;09 Recap</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://displacedamerican.blog-city.com/halloween_09_recap.htm</guid><link>http://displacedamerican.blog-city.com/halloween_09_recap.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:55:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://displacedamerican.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=halloween%5F09%5Frecap</comments><dc:creator>andrea</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Halloween was a little different this year, a little more subdued and relaxed, but I think I like it that way!  The biggest change this year was the fact that neither of the kids had a big Halloween parade or Songfest to participate in --]]></description><category>halloween</category><category>holiday</category><category>pics</category></item><item><title>Hello, November!  Here we go again...</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://displacedamerican.blog-city.com/hello_november__here_we_go_again.htm</guid><link>http://displacedamerican.blog-city.com/hello_november__here_we_go_again.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 22:03:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://displacedamerican.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=hello%5Fnovember%5F%5Fhere%5Fwe%5Fgo%5Fagain</comments><dc:creator>andrea</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I can&#39;t believe it&#39;s already November.&nbsp; I can&#39;t believe the blog-a-day challenge is here again.&nbsp; I also can&#39;t believe I went the entire month of October (and most of September) without blogging, so maybe this is just what I]]></description><category>halloween</category></item><item><title>Houston, we lost a tooth!</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://displacedamerican.blog-city.com/houston_we_lost_a_tooth.htm</guid><link>http://displacedamerican.blog-city.com/houston_we_lost_a_tooth.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 06:06:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://displacedamerican.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=houston%5Fwe%5Flost%5Fa%5Ftooth</comments><dc:creator>andrea</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[And it happened on 09/09/09!The tooth had been loose for about 10 days.&nbsp; When he first told me it was loose, I immediately assumed he had hit his face somewhere.&nbsp; But no, this was a naturally-occurring loose tooth!&nbsp; I thought age 5 was]]></description><category>tate</category><category>pics</category><category>milestones</category><category>teeth</category></item><item><title>I am stinky, hear me roar!</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://displacedamerican.blog-city.com/i_am_stinky_hear_me_roar.htm</guid><link>http://displacedamerican.blog-city.com/i_am_stinky_hear_me_roar.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 17:38:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://displacedamerican.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=i%5Fam%5Fstinky%5Fhear%5Fme%5Froar</comments><dc:creator>andrea</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[We are on Day 4 of no washer, which in this house is akin to losing one of your limbs.It broke on the Saturday on Labor Day weekend.&nbsp; Jeremy took it apart and fiddled around and found the faulty part, and we all drove down to Sears to buy a new]]></description></item><item><title>International Street Fair</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://displacedamerican.blog-city.com/international_street_fair.htm</guid><link>http://displacedamerican.blog-city.com/international_street_fair.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2009 14:09:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://displacedamerican.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=international%5Fstreet%5Ffair</comments><dc:creator>andrea</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Hands down, the best part about the International Street Fair in Orange is....The aebleskiver on Denmark Street!&nbsp; (Like pancake balls with jelly and powdered sugar)(And hearing the accents of the Danes serving them up ain&#39;t so bad, either!)A]]></description><category>pics</category><category>fun</category><category>food</category></item><item><title>&quot;shampoo intelligence&quot;</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://displacedamerican.blog-city.com/shampoo_intelligence.htm</guid><link>http://displacedamerican.blog-city.com/shampoo_intelligence.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2009 03:56:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://displacedamerican.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=shampoo%5Fintelligence</comments><dc:creator>andrea</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[If you are like me, you have tried eighty billion different brands of shampoo and still, at the end of the day, you are left wondering, &quot;Isn&#39;t there something better out there?&quot;]]></description></item><item><title>1st Day of Kindergarten</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://displacedamerican.blog-city.com/1st_day_of_kindergarten.htm</guid><link>http://displacedamerican.blog-city.com/1st_day_of_kindergarten.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 18:36:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://displacedamerican.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=1st%5Fday%5Fof%5Fkindergarten</comments><dc:creator>andrea</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Well we did it.&nbsp; We made it through the first week of Kindergarten!!&nbsp; AND HE LOVES IT!!&nbsp; Whew.....The week started on Tuesday (Sept 1) with a Kindergarten Tea, which was like a relaxed open house.&nbsp; Tate got the chance to check out]]></description><category>tate</category><category>kindergarten</category></item><item><title>Watch out Michael Phelps!</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://displacedamerican.blog-city.com/watch_out_michael_phelps.htm</guid><link>http://displacedamerican.blog-city.com/watch_out_michael_phelps.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 17:27:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://displacedamerican.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=watch%5Fout%5Fmichael%5Fphelps</comments><dc:creator>andrea</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[So Tate learned to swim this month!&nbsp; He had never had a single swim lesson in his entire life -- most people gasp and look at me like I&#39;m crazy when I mention this, like it is some sort of sin to live in Southern California with children and]]></description><category>tate</category><category>swim</category></item><item><title>Kinder supplies, check!</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://displacedamerican.blog-city.com/kinder_supplies_check.htm</guid><link>http://displacedamerican.blog-city.com/kinder_supplies_check.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 20:50:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://displacedamerican.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=kinder%5Fsupplies%5Fcheck</comments><dc:creator>andrea</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Kindergarten starts in exactly a week!&nbsp; EEEKK!But we are ready -- at least according to the supplies list.&nbsp; Now to get my emotions ready....&nbsp;]]></description><category>tate</category><category>kindergarten</category></item><item><title>back in the dark ages when we were still writing love letters...</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://displacedamerican.blog-city.com/back_in_the_dark_ages_when_we_were_still_writing_love_letter.htm</guid><link>http://displacedamerican.blog-city.com/back_in_the_dark_ages_when_we_were_still_writing_love_letter.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 21:32:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://displacedamerican.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=back%5Fin%5Fthe%5Fdark%5Fages%5Fwhen%5Fwe%5Fwere%5Fstill%5Fwriting%5Flove%5Fletter</comments><dc:creator>andrea</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[During my efforts to declutter, I found a letter I sent to &quot;Corporal Jeremy Rytky&quot; in the year 2000.&nbsp; The stamp is for 33 CENTS!&nbsp; This should be a Smithsonian artifact!]]></description><category>pics</category><category>jeremy</category></item><item><title>Picnic at the park.</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://displacedamerican.blog-city.com/picnic_at_the_park.htm</guid><link>http://displacedamerican.blog-city.com/picnic_at_the_park.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 22:22:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://displacedamerican.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=picnic%5Fat%5Fthe%5Fpark</comments><dc:creator>andrea</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Today was the first day in a long time that we haven&#39;t had anything scheduled to do.&nbsp; Between baseball, soccer, summer school, and swimming lessons -- where did my &quot;lazy summer&quot; go?!?So today was wonderful -- carefree and stress-fr]]></description><category>tate</category><category>felicity</category><category>pics</category></item><item><title>Out of the mouths of babes...</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://displacedamerican.blog-city.com/out_of_the_mouth_of_babes.htm</guid><link>http://displacedamerican.blog-city.com/out_of_the_mouth_of_babes.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2009 07:13:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://displacedamerican.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=out%5Fof%5Fthe%5Fmouth%5Fof%5Fbabes</comments><dc:creator>andrea</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[We are driving in the car, the kids strapped into their car seats in the back.&nbsp; Felicity drops her little kitty toy and says, &quot;Oh no!&nbsp; I dropped my kitty!&#39;Tate replies, &quot;I can&#39;t reach it...I don&#39;t have the force!&quot;]]></description><category>tateism</category><category>tate</category></item><item><title>Goodbye preschool...Hello world...</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://displacedamerican.blog-city.com/goodbye_preschoolhello_world.htm</guid><link>http://displacedamerican.blog-city.com/goodbye_preschoolhello_world.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 14:46:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://displacedamerican.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=goodbye%5Fpreschoolhello%5Fworld</comments><dc:creator>andrea</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Today was Tate&#39;s last day of summer school and last day EVER of preschool!&nbsp; I can hardly believe it, the time flew by so fast.So I managed to hold it together until I pulled into the parking lot this morning to drop him off.&nbsp; And then I]]></description><category>preschool</category><category>parenthood</category><category>tate</category><category>pics</category></item><item><title>Michael Jackson&apos;s Memorial: an insider&apos;s perspective</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://displacedamerican.blog-city.com/michael_jacksons_memorial_service.htm</guid><link>http://displacedamerican.blog-city.com/michael_jacksons_memorial_service.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 16:34:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://displacedamerican.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=michael%5Fjacksons%5Fmemorial%5Fservice</comments><dc:creator>andrea</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Surreal" is just about the only word I can find to describe my experience yesterday at the Staples Center.  I'm sitting here the day after feeling a bit dazed -- partially from lack of sleep -- but also just in wonderment and amazement]]></description></item><item><title>1-800-I-KNOW-MY-JUNK</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://displacedamerican.blog-city.com/1800iknowmyjunk.htm</guid><link>http://displacedamerican.blog-city.com/1800iknowmyjunk.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:19:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://displacedamerican.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=1800iknowmyjunk</comments><dc:creator>andrea</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[So Lily asked in a comment what we are going to do with our crib now that we no longer have a need for it.&nbsp; I started to type out a reply in a comment and realized it was becoming a dissertation-sized monologue, so I thought better to type a new]]></description><category>home_improvement</category></item><item><title>Operation Big Girl Bed</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://displacedamerican.blog-city.com/operation_big_girl_bed.htm</guid><link>http://displacedamerican.blog-city.com/operation_big_girl_bed.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 21:04:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://displacedamerican.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=operation%5Fbig%5Fgirl%5Fbed</comments><dc:creator>andrea</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Last night was Felicity&#39;s first night sleeping in her new big girl bed.&nbsp;&nbsp; Normally I would approach this milestone with a lot of apprehension, but she was *so* ready for a bed it&#39;s ridiculous.&nbsp; You see, Felicity was a genuine c]]></description><category>felicity</category><category>milestones</category><category>bigboybed</category></item></channel></rss>