<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xml:lang="en"><title>Latest entries from displacedamerican.blog-city.com</title><rights>Copyright 2009 displacedamerican.blog-city.com</rights><subtitle></subtitle><author><name></name></author><updated>2009-11-24T17:07:00Z</updated><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://displacedamerican.blog-city.com/"/><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://displacedamerican.blog-city.com/index.rss"/><id>tag:displacedamerican.blog-city.com,2009:1</id><entry><id>tag:displacedamerican.blog-city.com,2009-11-23:links.412191863</id><title>Favorite Things: Books for Beginning Readers</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://displacedamerican.blog-city.com/favorite_things_books_for_beginning_readers.htm"><![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]]></content><dc:subject>favorites</dc:subject><dc:subject>tate</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://displacedamerican.blog-city.com/favorite_things_books_for_beginning_readers.htm"/><dc:creator>andrea</dc:creator><author><name>andrea</name></author><updated>2009-11-23T04:49:00Z</updated><published>2009-11-23T04:49:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:displacedamerican.blog-city.com,2009-11-22:links.412191780</id><title>time-out</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://displacedamerican.blog-city.com/timeout.htm"><![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.]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://displacedamerican.blog-city.com/timeout.htm"/><dc:creator>andrea</dc:creator><author><name>andrea</name></author><updated>2009-11-22T00:19:00Z</updated><published>2009-11-22T00:19:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:displacedamerican.blog-city.com,2009-11-12:links.412190315</id><title>Tate&apos;s official Kindergarten photo</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://displacedamerican.blog-city.com/tates_official_kindergarten_photo.htm"><![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]]></content><dc:subject>tate</dc:subject><dc:subject>pics</dc:subject><dc:subject>kindergarten</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://displacedamerican.blog-city.com/tates_official_kindergarten_photo.htm"/><dc:creator>andrea</dc:creator><author><name>andrea</name></author><updated>2009-11-12T02:51:00Z</updated><published>2009-11-12T02:51:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:displacedamerican.blog-city.com,2009-11-09:links.412189843</id><title>Little Matryoshka</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://displacedamerican.blog-city.com/little_matryoshka.htm"><![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]]></content><dc:subject>felicity</dc:subject><dc:subject>pics</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://displacedamerican.blog-city.com/little_matryoshka.htm"/><dc:creator>andrea</dc:creator><author><name>andrea</name></author><updated>2009-11-09T03:56:00Z</updated><published>2009-11-09T03:56:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:displacedamerican.blog-city.com,2009-11-08:links.412189735</id><title>one step at a time...</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://displacedamerican.blog-city.com/one_step_at_a_time.htm"><![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]]></content><dc:subject>tate</dc:subject><dc:subject>sick</dc:subject><dc:subject>parenthood</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://displacedamerican.blog-city.com/one_step_at_a_time.htm"/><dc:creator>andrea</dc:creator><author><name>andrea</name></author><updated>2009-11-08T05:13:00Z</updated><published>2009-11-08T05:13:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:displacedamerican.blog-city.com,2009-11-07:links.412189669</id><title>IT&apos;S A TEASPOON.</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://displacedamerican.blog-city.com/its_a_teaspoon.htm"><![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;]]></content><dc:subject>parenthood</dc:subject><dc:subject>sick</dc:subject><dc:subject>tate</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://displacedamerican.blog-city.com/its_a_teaspoon.htm"/><dc:creator>andrea</dc:creator><author><name>andrea</name></author><updated>2009-11-07T06:24:00Z</updated><published>2009-11-07T06:24:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:displacedamerican.blog-city.com,2009-11-06:links.412189501</id><title>first step towards a better smile...</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://displacedamerican.blog-city.com/first_step_towards_a_better_smile.htm"><![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]]></content><dc:subject>invisalign</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://displacedamerican.blog-city.com/first_step_towards_a_better_smile.htm"/><dc:creator>andrea</dc:creator><author><name>andrea</name></author><updated>2009-11-06T05:32:00Z</updated><published>2009-11-06T05:32:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:displacedamerican.blog-city.com,2009-11-05:links.412189342</id><title>You know it&apos;s been a rough day when...</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://displacedamerican.blog-city.com/you_know_its_been_a_rough_day_when.htm"><![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]]></content><dc:subject>parenthood</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://displacedamerican.blog-city.com/you_know_its_been_a_rough_day_when.htm"/><dc:creator>andrea</dc:creator><author><name>andrea</name></author><updated>2009-11-05T04:02:00Z</updated><published>2009-11-05T04:02:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:displacedamerican.blog-city.com,2009-11-04:links.412189187</id><title>Well at least he&apos;s consistent.</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://displacedamerican.blog-city.com/well_at_least_hes_consistent.htm"><![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]]></content><dc:subject>halloween</dc:subject><dc:subject>tate</dc:subject><dc:subject>food</dc:subject><dc:subject>parenthood</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://displacedamerican.blog-city.com/well_at_least_hes_consistent.htm"/><dc:creator>andrea</dc:creator><author><name>andrea</name></author><updated>2009-11-04T03:53:00Z</updated><published>2009-11-04T03:53:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:displacedamerican.blog-city.com,2009-11-03:links.412189060</id><title>Halloween &apos;09 Recap</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://displacedamerican.blog-city.com/halloween_09_recap.htm"><![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 --]]></content><dc:subject>halloween</dc:subject><dc:subject>holiday</dc:subject><dc:subject>pics</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://displacedamerican.blog-city.com/halloween_09_recap.htm"/><dc:creator>andrea</dc:creator><author><name>andrea</name></author><updated>2009-11-03T05:55:00Z</updated><published>2009-11-03T05:55:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:displacedamerican.blog-city.com,2009-11-01:links.412188908</id><title>Hello, November!  Here we go again...</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://displacedamerican.blog-city.com/hello_november__here_we_go_again.htm"><![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]]></content><dc:subject>halloween</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://displacedamerican.blog-city.com/hello_november__here_we_go_again.htm"/><dc:creator>andrea</dc:creator><author><name>andrea</name></author><updated>2009-11-01T22:03:00Z</updated><published>2009-11-01T22:03:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:displacedamerican.blog-city.com,2009-09-10:links.412181931</id><title>Houston, we lost a tooth!</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://displacedamerican.blog-city.com/houston_we_lost_a_tooth.htm"><![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]]></content><dc:subject>tate</dc:subject><dc:subject>pics</dc:subject><dc:subject>milestones</dc:subject><dc:subject>teeth</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://displacedamerican.blog-city.com/houston_we_lost_a_tooth.htm"/><dc:creator>andrea</dc:creator><author><name>andrea</name></author><updated>2009-09-10T06:06:00Z</updated><published>2009-09-10T06:06:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:displacedamerican.blog-city.com,2009-09-09:links.412181882</id><title>I am stinky, hear me roar!</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://displacedamerican.blog-city.com/i_am_stinky_hear_me_roar.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://displacedamerican.blog-city.com/i_am_stinky_hear_me_roar.htm"/><dc:creator>andrea</dc:creator><author><name>andrea</name></author><updated>2009-09-09T17:38:00Z</updated><published>2009-09-09T17:38:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:displacedamerican.blog-city.com,2009-09-07:links.412181632</id><title>International Street Fair</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://displacedamerican.blog-city.com/international_street_fair.htm"><![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]]></content><dc:subject>pics</dc:subject><dc:subject>fun</dc:subject><dc:subject>food</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://displacedamerican.blog-city.com/international_street_fair.htm"/><dc:creator>andrea</dc:creator><author><name>andrea</name></author><updated>2009-09-07T14:09:00Z</updated><published>2009-09-07T14:09:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:displacedamerican.blog-city.com,2009-09-07:links.412181551</id><title>&quot;shampoo intelligence&quot;</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://displacedamerican.blog-city.com/shampoo_intelligence.htm"><![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;]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://displacedamerican.blog-city.com/shampoo_intelligence.htm"/><dc:creator>andrea</dc:creator><author><name>andrea</name></author><updated>2009-09-07T03:56:00Z</updated><published>2009-09-07T03:56:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:displacedamerican.blog-city.com,2009-09-04:links.412181354</id><title>1st Day of Kindergarten</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://displacedamerican.blog-city.com/1st_day_of_kindergarten.htm"><![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]]></content><dc:subject>tate</dc:subject><dc:subject>kindergarten</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://displacedamerican.blog-city.com/1st_day_of_kindergarten.htm"/><dc:creator>andrea</dc:creator><author><name>andrea</name></author><updated>2009-09-04T18:36:00Z</updated><published>2009-09-04T18:36:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:displacedamerican.blog-city.com,2009-08-28:links.412180702</id><title>Watch out Michael Phelps!</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://displacedamerican.blog-city.com/watch_out_michael_phelps.htm"><![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]]></content><dc:subject>tate</dc:subject><dc:subject>swim</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://displacedamerican.blog-city.com/watch_out_michael_phelps.htm"/><dc:creator>andrea</dc:creator><author><name>andrea</name></author><updated>2009-08-28T17:27:00Z</updated><published>2009-08-28T17:27:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:displacedamerican.blog-city.com,2009-08-26:links.412180508</id><title>Kinder supplies, check!</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://displacedamerican.blog-city.com/kinder_supplies_check.htm"><![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;]]></content><dc:subject>tate</dc:subject><dc:subject>kindergarten</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://displacedamerican.blog-city.com/kinder_supplies_check.htm"/><dc:creator>andrea</dc:creator><author><name>andrea</name></author><updated>2009-08-26T20:50:00Z</updated><published>2009-08-26T20:50:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:displacedamerican.blog-city.com,2009-08-21:links.412180043</id><title>back in the dark ages when we were still writing love letters...</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://displacedamerican.blog-city.com/back_in_the_dark_ages_when_we_were_still_writing_love_letter.htm"><![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!]]></content><dc:subject>pics</dc:subject><dc:subject>jeremy</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://displacedamerican.blog-city.com/back_in_the_dark_ages_when_we_were_still_writing_love_letter.htm"/><dc:creator>andrea</dc:creator><author><name>andrea</name></author><updated>2009-08-21T21:32:00Z</updated><published>2009-08-21T21:32:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:displacedamerican.blog-city.com,2009-08-18:links.412179864</id><title>Picnic at the park.</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://displacedamerican.blog-city.com/picnic_at_the_park.htm"><![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]]></content><dc:subject>tate</dc:subject><dc:subject>felicity</dc:subject><dc:subject>pics</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://displacedamerican.blog-city.com/picnic_at_the_park.htm"/><dc:creator>andrea</dc:creator><author><name>andrea</name></author><updated>2009-08-18T22:22:00Z</updated><published>2009-08-18T22:22:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:displacedamerican.blog-city.com,2009-08-16:links.412179554</id><title>Out of the mouths of babes...</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://displacedamerican.blog-city.com/out_of_the_mouth_of_babes.htm"><![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;]]></content><dc:subject>tateism</dc:subject><dc:subject>tate</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://displacedamerican.blog-city.com/out_of_the_mouth_of_babes.htm"/><dc:creator>andrea</dc:creator><author><name>andrea</name></author><updated>2009-08-16T07:13:00Z</updated><published>2009-08-16T07:13:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:displacedamerican.blog-city.com,2009-08-06:links.412178818</id><title>Goodbye preschool...Hello world...</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://displacedamerican.blog-city.com/goodbye_preschoolhello_world.htm"><![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]]></content><dc:subject>preschool</dc:subject><dc:subject>parenthood</dc:subject><dc:subject>tate</dc:subject><dc:subject>pics</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://displacedamerican.blog-city.com/goodbye_preschoolhello_world.htm"/><dc:creator>andrea</dc:creator><author><name>andrea</name></author><updated>2009-08-06T14:46:00Z</updated><published>2009-08-06T14:46:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:displacedamerican.blog-city.com,2009-07-08:links.412176386</id><title>Michael Jackson&apos;s Memorial: an insider&apos;s perspective</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://displacedamerican.blog-city.com/michael_jacksons_memorial_service.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://displacedamerican.blog-city.com/michael_jacksons_memorial_service.htm"/><dc:creator>andrea</dc:creator><author><name>andrea</name></author><updated>2009-07-08T16:34:00Z</updated><published>2009-07-08T16:34:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:displacedamerican.blog-city.com,2009-07-02:links.412175860</id><title>1-800-I-KNOW-MY-JUNK</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://displacedamerican.blog-city.com/1800iknowmyjunk.htm"><![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]]></content><dc:subject>home_improvement</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://displacedamerican.blog-city.com/1800iknowmyjunk.htm"/><dc:creator>andrea</dc:creator><author><name>andrea</name></author><updated>2009-07-02T21:19:00Z</updated><published>2009-07-02T21:19:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:displacedamerican.blog-city.com,2009-07-01:links.412175761</id><title>Operation Big Girl Bed</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://displacedamerican.blog-city.com/operation_big_girl_bed.htm"><![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]]></content><dc:subject>felicity</dc:subject><dc:subject>milestones</dc:subject><dc:subject>bigboybed</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://displacedamerican.blog-city.com/operation_big_girl_bed.htm"/><dc:creator>andrea</dc:creator><author><name>andrea</name></author><updated>2009-07-01T21:04:00Z</updated><published>2009-07-01T21:04:00Z</published></entry></feed>