Veggie Booty RECALL

by Stacey
Well, it’s happened again. Another staple in our home has been pulled from the market. This time it’s Veggie Booty snack food due to risk of salmonella contamination.
The Food and Drug Administration issued a warning to consumers on June 28th to avoid eating Veggie Booty and to throw away any packages. This from the [...]

Thank God for Tina Fey

[photo credit: Babble.com]
by Stacey
I just spent the last half-hour reading celebrity gossip on Babble, trying to find something I cared enough about to post here. Despairing of another story about Denise Richards (Who the hell cares about her? I mean really.), I finally came across this picture of Tina Fey and her daughter Alice. Her [...]

Life After Cookie Monster

by Stacey
Recently my son began watching Sesame Street, after I broke the news that there was a show to go along with characters he was seeing in some books we were given. Now he can do a roaring rendition of the Cookie Monster classic, “C is for Cookie.” My husband and I have taken to [...]

Beach Woes

by Stacey
“Sudden Death from Collapsing Sand Holes” is the title of a letter to the editor in last week’s New England Journal of Medicine. According to the letter, the authors found “52 documented fatal and nonfatal cases, occurring primarily in the past 10 years, in which persons were submerged after the collapse of a dry-sand [...]

The Open Post

I thought our first week of open posting went really well. Thanks to all who commented last week. For those who are jumping in, we’re trying out a new feature called The Open Post on Mondays. It’s an opportunity for anyone to comment, ask a question, or offer a link on the topics of parenting, [...]

Sasha is Screwed

by Stacey
According to a new study, firstborn sons have higher IQs than their younger brothers. This finding is more likely the result of the eldest’s social rank within the family, the study authors concluded, rather than biological inheritance.
The researchers examined military draft records of over 240,000 Norwegian men. They found that firstborns scored 2.3 IQ [...]

Katie Gets a Good Haircut

by Stacey
I like Katie Holmes’ new haircut. I think she looks stylish and sexy. There are rumors flying that she’s pregnant again. Her life seems to have spun out. Time was, it would have been great to be hooked up with Tom Cruise. But that was circa 1986 when he was Top Gun tough.
Now [...]

Sleep in Brief

by Stacey
One of the more difficult challenges I’ve faced as a parent has been lack of sleep. I say this even though I know that the sleeping that goes on in my house is not that bad. Sage pretty much always sleeps through the night and Sasha, well he’s only six months old. Even so, [...]

The Girl in the Phone

by Stacey
It all started with a toy phone. Sage pressed the numbers, the phone made a ringing sound, and then a little girl’s voice started talking.
“Hi, what are you doing today? Great! Bye!”
Then more rings. And more talking.
“You are my best friend. Bye!”
And so on.
For a long time, Sage just listened. When [...]

The Open Post

Last week I mentioned we were going to try out this new weekly feature called The Open Post. The idea is to turn the mike over to you all to hear what’s going on in your lives. Feel free to post anything relevant to parenting, marriage, self, kids, etc. It can be a question, a [...]