Your Brain on Love

by Stacey
As far as your brain is concerned, falling in love is a lot like being addicted to drugs only without the worry of getting arrested or running out of cash. According to this LA Times story, the harder you fall the more likely you are to experience sleeplessness, loss of appetite, a rush of [...]

The Open Post

Whew! We just said goodbye to my parents who were visiting for five days. It was a great visit. Lots of eating. Some shopping. And plenty of playing with the kids. We live so far from our families. It is great to see our kids bonding with their grandparents and really enjoying their company.
But now [...]

Snap Happy

by Stacey
A couple of weeks ago Sage found an old plastic Kodac camera we had lying around and asked if he could take some pictures. Sure, I said, thinking we’d probably never get the roll developed. I don’t know where the camera came from or what’s on it. He went around snapping away until the [...]

Julia Roberts Isn’t Perfect

[photo: Babyrazzi]
Note: I found this post on Babble.com’s Famecrawler. It was written by “sweatpantsmom.” I couldn’t have done better.
Hear that? It’s the sound of Julia Roberts’ new baby, Henry yelling, “Hey! Lemme outta here!” Henry was born a few weeks ago, but all we’ve seen of him is his little hand waving from behind [...]

Expecting the Unexpected

by Stacey
Two recent research reviews found that women who have a doula, midwife, or supportive family member with them during labor are more likely to have a shorter labor, less likely to use pain medication, and feel more satisfaction with their birth experience than women who receive regular hospital care. In addition, women who [...]

Telling It Like It Is

by Stacey
My Couch, Seattle — On this eve of another Democratic presidential debate I am thinking about how difficult it is to know what candidates really think. It all seems like so much spin. Not only are words parsed and packaged, even clothes are strategically selected. Frankly, it’s boring to listen to them.
Maybe that’s why [...]

The Open Post

I hope you all enjoyed the weekend. We had rain, rain, and more rain here in Seattle. This came as a surprise to me. I thought it rained all winter and then in the summer it was blue skies, hot days, and cools nights. Basically perfect. That was the deal. Bad winters, good summers. This [...]

Recall Madness

by Stacey
With all these recent recalls many of us have been wondering, who can you trust? I’ve asked it here and so have others. But now I’m wondering if we’re asking ourselves the wrong question. Maybe we need to be wondering, “Do I really need to be buying all this crap?”
I started thinking about this [...]

Easy Bake Oven RECALL

by Stacey
Easy Bake Ovens are officially off the market, the company announced today. According to this AP story, children were getting their hands and fingers caught in the ovens and sometimes burned.
In February, Hasbro Inc, Easy Bake’s parent company recalled close to one million ovens for this problem and then offered a free repair kit [...]

Everyday is a Winding Road

[photo: Celebs and Bubs]
by Stacey
Now that the Tour de France is in full swing, it’s impossible not to think about Lance Armstrong, the man who won a record seven times in a row from 1999 to 2005. If you know anything about bike racing, which I didn’t until I met my husband, you’d know this [...]