Where the Deer and the Antelope Play - Living in the USA (visitors welcome)

[SuperBunny]

East Coast
MaNanny - Boston
Twinmommytobe - Boston
MuminCT - CT
Greatgooglymoogly - NY State
Yesthereare4ofthem - NY State
Brooklynmom - NYC
alarkaspree - NYC
MKG - New Jersey
Mummimamma - PA
Poetmum - PA
Twirl - MD

South
Earlybird - TN
jabberwocky - AR
Sunchowder - Florida
Marls001 - Bentonville, AR
Tinpot - NC
MadameDeathStare- AL

Midwest
SuperBunny- Chicago
Dodgykeeper - Dayton, OH
Chocchipcookie - Ohio
MonkeyLover
KickAssAngel - Ann Arbor, MI

Rockies
Alipiggie - Boulder, CO
Ribena

Northwest
AnnieLaurie - Seattle, WA
Dooneygirl - Oregon City, OR

California
SittingBull - nr San Francisco
Califrau - Milpitas
loopsngeorge - Brentwood, LA
Syd - Manhattan Beach, LA
SofiaAmes - LA
LATyke - Redondo Beach

Texas
Texan - Dallas
Tiggyhop - Houston
Vixie78 - Houston
BananaPudding - Austin
Cosmicdust - East Texas

Canada
Hellish - Ottawa
Shouldlistenedtomymum - Hamilton
Nooka - BC
Jacksmama - Langley

Exotic Islands
Anorak - Bermuda
cp - Trinidad
Barefeete - BVI

Brazil
Albert

about car seats and buying cars - you can check out Consumer Reports online for whatever car you have in mind, as well as car seats - actually, you can check just about anything on consumer reports. fridges etc.
and you local DPS (department of public safetly) or DMV (department of motor vehicles) should be able to tell you car seat requirements

good luck!!

and LOL about the kettle

Lukewarm tea, bleurgh.

My DS has a funny accent - he sounds very American to me but says certain words the way I do (banana, water, dirty) and uses some very British terms - mucky. He hasn't been to the UK for a visit since he could talk but I'll be interested to see what happens.

Ice in tea? (I have done that for DS when we had tea in Chinatown but never at home)

Dd is 4.8, and we have been here since the end of August. She mostly still has a British accent but sometimes uses an American accent at school or when she talks about school. (Once her teacher told me she had been speaking with a deep south twang all day - no one she has ever met has a southern accent!) But we went back to the UK for Christmas so at the moment she's a bit more British.

Ds is 2.9 and has no American accent at all, but I wouldn't call his accent British either. It's more 'I can only just talk'.

Dooney I think it would be fine to put ice cubes in tea once you've brewed it with freshly boiled water, if you want to cool it down.

dooney, i just leave mine to cool off for a bit.

Well, there's letting it cool of for a bit, but for some people a bit seems like a forever, and we get tired of waiting. Or I have to take Caitlin to school, and I don't have time to wait. I don't really do well with waiting. Sometimes.

I'm excited because we've managed to have one night of Colin sounding croupy and not coming down with it.

Superbunny I have copied your menu list for future ideas. What a fab and comprehensive list!

DS is developing a Bermudian accent. The Bermudian accent is like a cross between American and Caribbean.

dd started developing a new accent almost immediately. It doesn't seem to have changed much with the move from New York to British Columbia, although the accents are very different. So I'm not totally sure what she sounds like! ds has become, if anything, more English sounding (well more South London tbh ). We've been away about nine months now, and the children are eight and nine.

Well, it was -39C with windchilll here today, anyone jealous?

No, dhread! Because that is what we have forecast for tomorrow. Where are you?

Fingers crossed for Colin.

Anorak is back!

Nope, not jealous at all.

I bet Anorak's DS sounds very cool

we were -21C before windchill yesterday. forecast is saying less for tomorrow.
i love waiting for the school bus each morning.

DD has almost completely lost her British accent, and we have been here for 18 months. I think she 'wanted' to lose the accent because her school peers thought it was 'weird' (perhaps a reaction to the fact that most adults made a huge fuss).

A thought has just come into my mind - is it accurate to say we have many more Mums with sons than daughters on this thread? Seems I see many more references to 'ds' than 'dd'....

I have both Earlybird.

DS says 'Darrn it' a lot. It seems to be the expletive of choice for an 8-year-old in Bermuda

That's a good point, we do seem to be quite boy heavy. I have one!

Adults often gush over DS's accent - he was squealed at yesterday because he carried a heavy box in music class and said, "It's ok, I can manage by myself" Apparently, that is very British

Welcome to the Midwest, Kickass. Lovely, isn't it?

Great news!!! DH's aunt (I am very close to her, she was a lifesaver when we moved to Southern Oregon) had breast cancer, and they did surgery, and got her results back from her tests with an all clear now. With all the death in DH's family the past few years, it is nice to finally have some good news.

What good news

Fab dooneygirl! I'm really happy for you. That news is close to home for me anyway

You know what SuperBunny, you are such a nice person, you are always the first to congratulate or give your support on these threads and I want you to know that someone has noticed what a giving sort of person you are.

I did think of you, anorak. It is nice somebody finally beat cancer. DH's grandpa, grandma, another aunt and mother have all lost their battles with cancer in Colin's lifetime. I am probably closer to this aunt than even SMIL, so it is a big deal for me.

DH notices the same thing anorak does, Bunny.

Aw, thank you. I'm not that lovely really but I know it's nice to feel like someone read/ listened. And news like that is big and should be noticed.

And, changing the subject back to me...

don't suppose anyone has ever grown their own tea?

Please do not let DH see that last sentence.

Crap. He saw it just as I was posting. Fortunately he thinks from what he saw it would be difficult here.

No no, we live in Zone 8. At least, I do. And it's ok there.

Don't let him see this

I can't find anywhere to buy a bush and I think seeds are a bit risky.

I am off this thread for the rest of the night.