Archive for September, 2009
Apple Picking Pictures
Wednesday, September 30th, 2009
We went apple picking this past Monday because Mike had the day off. We didn’t end up at our favorite apple picking farm because it’s closed on Mondays. Something we only found out once we had gotten there.We were not going home without finding some place to apple pick!!Talk about disappointment. Katelyn would have been a mess if we hadn’t done something all together that day. So we ended up at a not- as- nice place in Harvard,MA. This was Madelyn’s first time to actually pick the apples and not just sit in her stroller and watch. Mike didn’t think it was so great while he was giving her a boost and she kept dropping the apples she picked on his head. We all got a good laugh watching that.
Westwood Farms had a cute, little country store. We went inside and got some treats and then sat on the huge covered porch and ate them and enjoyed the beautiful day.
FYI-I’m trying something new. I’ve uploaded the photos from this day onto Flickr. Instead of posting a ton of pictures on this post I’m going to post the link to this Flickr album and only post a few here. You can check out this album for the rest of the pictures. And there’s room for comments on each one! I’m sure my mom will be happy about that.
You will experience true Mike humor with this picture. I was in one of those potties. I won’t tell you which one. He thought it would be fun to take a snapshot of it.
Haha, Mike.
Multitasking Post
Tuesday, September 29th, 2009
If this isn’t great multitasking I don’t know what is….
Push potty over to coloring book and get crayons-CHECK
Get comfortable and start coloring while trying to potty-CHECK
Check to see if something is coming out and being happy to discover something is indeed coming out-CHECK
I just thought this little moment was too cute to pass up.
Speaking of cute and multitasking can you pretty please go over to Jenn(aka Future Mama) at Baby Makin(g) Machine’s blog and vote for Katelyn and Madelyn in her Cute Baby/Kid/Pet contest? Madelyn is #9 in the Cute Baby section and Katelyn is #11 in the Cute Kid contest.I will win some cute prizes and a button for my blog to proudly display the fact that my girl(s) won the Cute Baby/Kid/Pet contest. So please vote me us! And I think you can even vote every day. If you want.
Jenn is holding this contest for a great cause! She’s holding a raffle to benefit the March Of Dimes foundation. She has a ton of great sponsors donating wonderful items for the raffle. Depending on how much you donate towards the March Of Dimes you’ll get X amount of ticket to enter the raffle and win those awesome prizes. Check her out.
It’s A “Racy” Issue
Friday, September 25th, 2009
Katelyn has been obsessed here lately with people’s skin color. She is just now starting to notice that the people around her are different colors. She is always telling me she’s white and asking if she knows anyone with “brown skin”. Mind you, she does this any time the mood strikes her which is usually in public. And then she’ll go down a list of people she knows and ask if they have “brown skin”. So far none of the people she’s asked about have brown skin so I have to tell her no. Then she rolls her eyes, sighs forlornly and says ” Why don’t they have brown skin? Why don’t I know anyone with brown skin??”. The fact is, living in the area that I do, we don’t know a whole lot of people with brown skin! And the people I do know I haven’t seen in a while.
At first ,when she started asking these blatant race questions, I got a little embarrassed and tried to shush her as to not “offend” anyone near by. I thought there must be a more politically correct way to teach her to ask about people with “brown skin”. Then I thought, to heck with it! She’s an innocent child asking a sincere question about what she sees in the world around her. To her people with darker skin are “brown”. I decided I’m going to let her ask as many questions about people of different races as possible. There is nothing wrong with her noticing that people look different from her, because they do! And this is not a bad thing. We’ve gotten so caught up in political correctness that I think, as Americans, we’ve taken the politically correct race, appearance and nationality speak a little too far. Our kids are going to notice someone who looks different from them whether it be their color, their physical abilities or dissabilities or the shape and size of their bodies. And I think that’s ok. It’s ok for her to notice that someone is black and she’s white. Or someone is in a wheel chair while she can walk. I think there is an appropriate and frank way to discuss these things that doesn’t turn the conversation in to a socially awkward one. I think it will teach her respect for all people and empathy for those with less physical capabilities that she. I don’t want her to grow up shying away from these topics. I grew up in Brazil where there is so much interracial marriage that everyone there is all shades of color. It’s not a big deal. I grew up not really noticing the color of people’s skin. I hate the way everyone is calling each other “racist” these days. I also don’t take kindly to being told that because I didn’t vote for our African American president and don’t agree with his policies that somehow my beliefs are bigoted and racist. I think too many people hide behind the race card because they don’t truly know what they believe and what they stand for. I truly do not look at skin color. If he was my favorite shade of purple I still wouldn’t agree with him anymore than I do now. With all due respect.
So, I’m fine with Katelyn asking loudly about the color of someone’s skin. I’m happy to tell her that God made them that color. I think whatever color you are you should be proud to be that color. Because that’s the color God intended you to be. I’m proud to be white. Not because I think it’s the better color but because it’s the color that God made me. I didn’t have a say in it. I don’t need to apologize for it. I don’t think any race is superior to the other. I think each individual, no matter what their color, is responsible for his or her own actions and choices. Your race doesn’t make you who you are.YOU make you who you are.
Now, excuse me while I try to reconnect with some old acquaintances with “brown skin” so Katelyn can meet them.
What Would Have Been Wordless Wednesday
Thursday, September 24th, 2009
I was supposed to write this post yesterday. But since I was having fake spam virus issues on my computer I was not able to write. So this has also turned into a little update post as well. But first, the Wordless Wednesday pictures I was going to post yesterday
In case you were wondering, that is Colonel Sanders and this was taken at the KFC/Taco Bell near my inlaws’ house. The girls thought this was awesome.
Katelyn went to her first Awana meeting last night. She is in the Cubbies class.( Ah! I remember when my brother Bryan was in Cubbies!) I signed her up at a church that is close to us. This is their first year to do Awana. I put Madelyn in the nursery and I went to the adult Bible study that is going on during that time. Some friends from our church also put their girls in Awanas there so Katelyn knew some of the kids going in. Not that it mattered, of course. She absolutely loved it. She’s going to get her own little Cubbies Bible verse book and a vest to wear. So cute! I am so glad I signed her up. Madelyn started crying the second I started walking her out of the main area where all the kids meet. I could see what was going on her in her mind -
” I have to leave again? Katelyn gets to stay and I have to leave a fun place AGAIN?”
She immediately started throwing a fit and screaming “No!” at me as I dragged her out of the room. Once I got her to the nursery and she saw all the new toys and everything she immediately stopped. “Oh, for me???”. She didn’t even look back as I left the room. I’m sure it helped that she was the only one last night and the nursery worker was someone that also goes to our church on Sunday mornings. Madelyn loved it. I always feel guilty when my child is the only one (or ones) in the nursery. I feel as if I’m wasting the nursery workers time by making them stay with my one or two kids when I could just stay with them myself. But I was so looking forward to being in a grown up Bible study again and I knew Kathy didn’t mind. And I really did enjoy the study. While I was struggling to get both girls to leave and get in the car Madelyn kept shouting saying ” I .Want.To .Go. With Kaffy” (Kathy). Per their usual MO they did NOT want to leave last night. So at 8:10 I’m struggling to get two whining,tired, upset and excited little girls into our van so I can get home, put them to bed and watch “Glee” on time. We’re definitely going to have to work on our exit strategy.
The first two weeks of Pre-K for Katelyn have been a success. She loves it! It’s definitely been a scheduling adjustment for me. We’ve started up a bunch of new stuff that is affecting all of us recently. Pre-K, Dance, Awana and Bible study. It may not sound like a ton but we went from doing non of that to all of it in a span of two weeks. God has definitely working on my “flexibility” issues. All this new stuff is putting me out of my comfort zone. I thrive on routine. I thrive on predictability. I thrive on a monotonous routine and predictability. I’m driving to dance every Saturday in a town I don’t know how to navigate at all and am still learning how to get to. I’m participating in a Bible study that is not at my own church with people that I know. I”m learning what it’s like to be a school mom. I’m stretching my rut a bit.
I’ve been mentioning that I’ve been struggling with getting up early in the mornings so I could read my Bible. I’ve been trying to do that for weeks now but the girls have been getting up at the same time as me every day- 6:30 am. As soon as I start heading downstairs I hear them giggling in their room. This used to be a time I treasured and looked forward to. I could usually count on them sleeping until 7:30 am. It was so peaceful and quiet. I loved sipping my coffee, and slowly and peacefully waking up while reading the word of God. Now it’s turned in to some covert mission in where the goal is to get dressed as quickly and quietly as possible and tip toe down the old, creaky stairs, grab coffee and read whatever I can as fast as possible before the girls wake up. I feel like I’m starring in a roll of “Mission Impossible”. This is usually if I can get up at 6:00 am. If I get up at 6:20 I can forget it. This issue has actually become a point of stress and frustration for me. Not fun anymore. I don’t think I can humanely get up any earlier than that every day without going to be at 10:00 every night. Which, no matter how hard I try, has not been happening recently. I even prayed ” Lord, can’t you keep them sleeping later in the morning? I am trying to read Your Word, you know. I could use a little help”. This may sound utterly silly but it shows you what a “stick- in- the- mud” person I am about routine. If I’m going to read my Bible it has to be in the morning and in peace and quiet by golly! Well, the Lord has other ideas, I guess.
(This whole story does have a point and does tie in to the routine school story)
With this said, the three days a week that Katelyn goes to Pre-K for two and a half hours I sort of have a little time to kill. It takes me 20 minutes or so to drive her to her school for 11:30. By the time I get home it’s usually noon. I have to back at the school to pick Katelyn up at 1:55. I usually have a little more than an hour to hang out at home and have lunch before I have to pick her back up again. There is definitely not enough time for Maddy to nap. So, of course, I’ve been trying to figure out just exactly how to schedule that time. So, I came up with a plan- I would make Maddy and myself a picnic lunch and we would eat it on the school grounds as soon as class started. Then, I would put Maddy in the stroller and we would go for a walk until she fell asleep thus filling my exercise requirements and her nap requirement. I would then let her sleep next to the van while I read my Bible, spent time in prayer, journaled and read a bit. Sounded perfect to me. No more struggling to read my Bible in the early mornings! A little extra reading time! Well, the first time I tried this was not successful. We really enjoyed our picnic but Maddy did not fall asleep on our walk and on top of it begged to get out the whole time. At that point I remembered I had some birthday shopping for a party we’re going to this Saturday so I took a quick run to the store and did that before I had to pick Katelyn up. So, I’m going to give the picnic/walk/nap thing a couple of more tries but if those don’t work I’m still at a loss about what to do during that time other than going home and wasting gas. I could run errands but I don’t always have three days worth of errands to run and it will also depend on Madelyn’s mood during that time. Being who I am, I continued to stress over reading my Bible in the early mornings, not knowing what to do with myself for two and a half hours three days a week that’s not a waste of time and also making sure Madelyn gets some sort of rest so she’s not a wreck by the end of the day. Whew. (This is the kind of stuff I worry about folks!)
Anyway, I’m learning my lesson in flexibility. This morning I got up at 6:20 and headed down stairs. The girls were sound asleep. Until the phone rang(Mike’s coworker who Mike was picking up this morning) and Mike banged the door shut on his way to the basement. Then they woke up and came downstairs. I realized circumstances aren’t always going to be perfect and exactly the way I want. I put on the t.v for them, gave them their morning chocolate milk and sat back down to read my Bible. In the middle of t.v noise and constant interruptions from them. Not my ideal Bible reading moment by far. But, if I wait for circumstances to be just perfect for Bible reading, I may never read my Bible again. I think God wanted me to see that. And I think it’s good for the girls to see their mommy reading the Bible and praying. It sets a good example.
I haven’t figured out a good use of my time while Katelyn is in school yet but I’m sure we’ll figure something out. And that’s ok.
Nostalgia
Monday, September 21st, 2009
There are so many old things that make me sigh and bring back fond memories.
Like Mike’s 98 Chevy Silverado that he is finally getting rid of.
Do you know how many good memories I have of this truck? Mike was driving this truck when I first met him. We had many long, pre falling in love, getting-to-know-you conversations in this truck. We had one of our first kisses in this truck.(Not the first kiss, mind you, but maybe the fourth or something like that). We listened to some great music that Mike put together on a special CD for us that I will always cherish in this truck. We drove to Rhode Island and back each week for three months in this truck. This was the first nice, brand new vehicle Mike bought when he got his first a real job with his hard earned degree in Chemical Engineering. Mike was so proud of this thing and put a lot of work into taking care of it
I will miss this truck.
Or what about the box of books and puzzles I found in the garage on Saturday that someone from church gave me when Katelyn was a baby. The stuff in the box was for preschoolers and gently used. This person thought I’d be able to use it for Katelyn one day when she got older. I thought ” That’s so far away. It will be ages before she’ll be able to use this stuff ” and absentmindedly put it in the garage. Katelyn AND Madelyn enjoyed going through the stuff and playing with it all weekend. The time came to play with it way faster than I ever imagined.
Or what about this drawing of Katelyn’s that she drew a year ago on the 14th of this month and had been on my fridge ever since. It was one of her first “real” drawings that actually looked like what she intended it to look like. That year went all too fast. She was a month away from turning three. She had drawn a snowman.
Or these pictures I have of the girls in the pool last summer. Madelyn’s first time in the pool.
And we just had our last swim in the pool two week ago. This summer went by way too fast. Madelyn no longer needs to float around in that thing. She swims around just fine with her swimmies. Katelyn started dog paddling and swimming underwater.
Here are some videos from this summer. They aren’t that old but I wanted to share them.
Sometimes it’s fun to revisit the past a bit. But it’s not good to live there. Sometimes new stuff is good too. Like, our new life in Christ. I’m so glad Jesus hasn’t let me stay my old self with my old nature. Sometimes I let my old self creep up on me but thank the Lord He doesn’t let me stay there. (Like that song by Pink that says ” don’t let me get me”!) Christ doesn’t allow me to do that. He reminds me that I’m a new creature and I have a new life in him. The old things are gone.
“17Therefore if anyone is (A)in Christ, he is (B)a new creature; (C)the old things passed away; behold, new things have come. ” 2 Corinthians 5:17 (taken from the online Bible source www.bible.com)
“Brethren, I do not regard myself as having laid hold of it yet; but one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead” Phillipians 3:13. This passage also taken from web resource mentioned above.
Some new stuff I’m looking forward to:
-Katelyn starting Awanas this Wednesday night. I decided to sign her up for Cubbies at a church close by. It goes from 6:30-8:00 Madelyn will hopefully stay in their nursery(and have fun!) and I’ll participate in their adult Bible study that I’m looking forward to immensely.
-Going to Texas in three weeks for a week and getting to meet new Brooklyn for the first time.
-Potty training Madelyn( “new” didn’t work anywhere in this point)
-Getting to watch a new season of Heroes, Castle, So You Think You Can Dance, Grey’s Anatomy and Glee. And beginning catching up on Lost.
Nostalgia is great but living in the moment while looking ahead is even better.
A “Fit” Giveaway
Friday, September 18th, 2009
UPDATED: We have a winner! Here’s how a winner was chosen: I wrote all the entrants names on small slips of paper. Those who had two entries got their name put in twice. I then shook them all up and had Mike pull one name out. Our winner today is……
Steph!!!
Congratulations!
I’ll be mailing you a copy of “Fit Home Team” soon.
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Give away is now closed! Thanks to all who entered. Winner will be announced shortly.
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Meet my new friend Mr. Elliptical
Let’s look at him from a different angle,shall we?
Pretty sweet, huh? And sorry! This is not the giveaway. Mike and I got this elliptical on sale online with free shipping. This elliptical’s stride is long enough for my 6′7 hubby, yet, I’m still able to use it myself. We are hoping this elliptical will help us get fit. We want to be able to live a more energetic lifestyle and be able to set a good example for our kids on healthy eating and exercise. Which leads me to my giveaway!
I recently received a book to review called “Fit Home Team” by Jorge and Laura Posada. Jorge Posada is the catcher for the New York Yankees and obviously has to be fit to play the sport that he does. Him and his wife have written this fabulous book on nutrition and family fitness. It’s a quality, hard cover book that has a ton of healthy and fun recipes, health and nutrition information, and exercise tips and ideas for the whole family. I am really enjoying trying out the ideas and recipes in this book. And on top of all I mentioned above it has a ton of color photos of the Posada family doing the different activities they talk about. I really like this book because the Posadas actually incorporate what they talk about in their book into their own family lifestyle and they make exercise and eating right a family affair. Below you can watch a clip I got off youtube of Jorge and Laura talking about their book.
I have one extra copy of this book to send to one lucky reader. You can do two things to enter this giveaway
1)Leave me a comment. If you comment you are automatically entered to win this book. Unless you state that you don’t want it and are just leaving a comment because you want to. Which is fine as well!
2) For a second entry and chance to win you can also copy my blog badge/button into the sidebar of your blog. I’d much appreciate that! Scroll down to the bottom of my sidebar and you’ll see my “Simply Mel” blog button with the code underneath for pasting it into your sidebar. Just copy that code and follow the specific instructions for posting things in your sidebar for whatever blogging service you use.If you decide to do this as well let me know in a separate comment so I can check out your blog.
This giveaway will end tomorrow night, Sept. 19th at 9:00 pm my time(Eastern?). I’ll post the winner at the top of this post.
Now that I’m done writing this post I think I’ll go get on my new friend Mr. Elliptical.
And She’s Off!
Thursday, September 17th, 2009
Yes, my first baby girl is off to her second day of Pre-K today! Here’s pictures from yesterday
Doesn’t this picture look like one of those old fashioned ones where the kids don’t smile and just stand there? Wait, I guess kids do that today too!
So excited to go to school in her new dress
Nana and Papa met us at the school so they could see her off on her first day too
Going, going….
Gone!
Katelyn is checking out her seat with her name on her desk area.
The kids line up at 1:55 and the teachers let the kids go to their waiting parents as they see them. They had all gotten tie dyed t-shirts that said “Faulkner Kindergarten” on them.
It was almost Katelyn’s turn…
“There’s my mom!! The one who’s crazily waving and taking pictures at the same time!”
A great first day! Even Maddy was excited.
We went to Nana and Papa’s house afterward for a celebratory tea party. Both girls also received some little Strawberry Shortcake dolls in tiny purses as gifts. It was cute! The battery died on my camera so I didn’t get pictures of the actual tea party. Just the prep. Katelyn poured “tea” (actually chocolate milk) for everyone.
So, I think this is going to be a great thing for Katelyn. I was totally discombobulated yesterday because my routine was totally different. I had no idea what to do or when to do it. I’m definitely going to have to work on a new schedule. I’m giving myself a break, though. It’s my first time! By the time I got home I had a little over an hour before I had to go pick up Katelyn again. So Maddy and I had lunch, I checked e-mail, I wondered aimlessly around the house wondering what I could be doing and then left to pick up Katelyn. Maddy had no nap yesterday because there was no time. She did fall asleep on the way to the school and as I got there early, I let her sleep for a bit. I”m going to have to figure out what to do with the time while Katelyn is at school. I may run errands and then get to her school early and let Maddy sleep in the car while I read or something. We’ll see.
Katelyn gave me a quick wave and hug at drop off yesterday. She was a little shy at first but quickly lost that. I did shed a few tears in the car on the way home but no as many as I thought.
My “mommy moment” of the day was stupidly sending Katelyn with a pb & j for her snack/ lunch to a school that I already knew was a no nut school. In making her lunch it didn’t dawn on me that (duh!) peaNUT butter has, well,… NUTS in it!! While getting in the car I asked Katelyn if she ate all her lunch and she said ” I didn’t eat my sandwich because my teacher said we should save it for later because this is a ‘ NO NUT SCHOOL’”. And she totally had the “duh, Mom” look on her face. And apparently I sent way too much other stuff because they told her she could only pick three things to eat. So, today, no nuts and only three lunch/snack items in her lunch box today. Call me a quick learner.
She comes home with a folder every day with her work and any notes/newsletters to me in them. Her paper from yesterday is already hanging up. She practiced writing her name, the word ‘red’ and had to draw a picture of something red. Today, she has to wear something red to school. Every Thursday is “Theme Day” where they wear the color of the week. It’s so cute.
I know I’m going to have fun.
So There I Was…
Tuesday, September 15th, 2009
So there I was, a couple of Sundays ago, playing the piano and helping lead worship at church. I had accidentally slept in my contacts the night before. I usually don’t do this but, for some reason, that Saturday night I went to bed with them in. I discovered at 4:00 am, as I was fumbling on my nightstand for my glasses so I could go to the bathroom ,that I could actually see the numbers on my alarm clock. But..I digress.
So, there I was playing the piano, very dry eyed, with my glasses on that Sunday. It was the Sunday after our worship leader came back from taking a week off because of her young nephew’s tragic death. When it came to the time where Pat reads a scripture she had decided to read a journal entry from her nephew’s little prayer journal dated a few days before he died. It was a beautiful and eerie post that almost felt like he knew what was coming. Pat got a little emotional reading this and I could feel my eyes welling with tears. But I was ok. I didn’t start any uncontrollable crying which I am prone to do during song time. You would think that a little tear moisture for my very dry eyes would have been a good thing. It wasn’t. My eyes started burning. Like they were. On.Fire. As we tried to sing our special number for the offertory my eyes started pouring tears and my nose started gushing. I could barely keep my eyes open. I was blinking like mad and trying to look out one eye and then the other. As long as I could keep one eye open I could see my music and play. With all the blinking and squinting I thought for sure everyone was going to think I was having some sort of seizure. I was hoping since I had worn my glasses they were covering my face a bit and no one would notice the water works coming from my eyes and nose.
Do you know how hard it is to play and sing when you can barely see your music through blurry, burning eyes and you have snot running into your mouth? I wish I didn’t.
And the only thing I was thinking was ” I WANT YOU ALL TO KNOW I’M NOT REALLY CRYING!! I’M NOT CRYING BECAUSE YET ANOTHER SONG HAS MADE ME TOO EMOTIONAL TO SING! OH NO,NOT THIS TIME. MY EYES ARE JUST ON FIRE. THAT’S ALL!!”
So no one other than my friend, Jen, ended up saying anything or acted like they noticed. She said she saw that I was having a little “issue” and she was trying to figure out if I was just getting emotional or if something else was wrong.
“Ha!” I said. ” I wasn’t really crying.….”
And you know the rest of the story.
Prima Ballerina Dancing Queen
Monday, September 14th, 2009
Or, sometimes, we also call her Katelyn.She is now our resident dancer. Well, our resident dancer who is actually taking lessons for it. I guess Madelyn and I don’t count. Her first class was last Saturday morning and to say she LOVED it would be an understatement. She would have stayed all day and partaken in every class if she were able. We had to explain (over and over and over again) that we were coming back the following week and that was not to be her only lesson. She was with the cutest group of four year old girls. I loved her teacher, Miss Stacey, who is the epitome of a graceful and beautiful dance teacher. This age group does not focus on any one style. Right now the focus is on following directions, having fun with movement, learning balance, some dance basics and whether or not the kids really do have a love for dance. There were many proud parents there so we were all snapping pictures of our children through windows and doors. The dance teachers acted like we weren’t there. You can tell they’re used to it! You can see the reflection in the door in which we were taking pictures from but I think we still got some good shots.
My dancer waiting to go into class
Here they were walking(running?) like butterflies it looked like
Katelyn was taking her turn to butterfly run to her start at the end of the studio
The girls all had to stop and stand on their star. I love this shot with the reflection of the girls in it
Already standing like a ballerina
She turned around and gave Mike a little happy wave. Unfortunately the quality of the picture isn’t real clear.
Look at that form!
What a diva!
And, yes, in case any of you were wondering I am living my dancing dreams through my daughter. Thankyouverymuch.
Remembering 9/11/01
Friday, September 11th, 2009
I was newly married a month, eating cereal in our hotel room in Rhode Island. I don’t usually watch the news but I was flipping through the channels when all the same coverage was coming up. I was thinking “What’s going on?” I watched as a news reporter was talking about how a plane hit one of the twin towers and then the news station flashed to footage of the the first plane. And as the reporter continued to report I saw another plane flying in the background towards the second tower and thought ” Oh my gosh! What is happening? That plane is awful close!” and then it hit the second tower, shocking the reporter and making them run for cover. I remember gasping in horror and thinking ” WHAT THE HECK IS HAPPENING?? IS THIS FOR REAL?!” And so began my day on September 11,2001. I still can’t watch the memorial video we bought of that day. I watched it once and the footage was so horrible and tragic that I don’t know if I’ll ever be able to watch it again. So, today I’m thinking of the families who lost loved ones that day. I’m thinking of the heroes who gave their lives to save others. And I’m thanking God that it wasn’t me. I’m praying that God will protect our country and keep us safe. That we’ll always be the land of the free even when our government seems to want to take that away from us. I’m still proud to be an American no matter what certain First Ladies say.
I will never forget…..
WE should never forget
God bless America
