by Stacey
As the mother of two boys I spend a fair amount of time playing with balls. Yes, I have changed a lot of diapers, but what I’m talking about are soccer balls, footballs, tennis balls, bouncy rubber balls that disappear under the couch and make the baby cry. If it’s round, we’ve got it […]

by Stacey
One day my house will be empty of children. They will live somewhere else. My husband and I will see them occasionally. This is unimaginable to me, and yet I know it is true. Most of the time I don’t think about it. I’m too busy filling cups with watered-down apple juice or searching […]

Cross-posted at MotherTalkers
by Stacey
Here’s some crazy crap for you: According to a new documentary film making its way through politically conservative circles, there’s an ominous decline in childbirth rates around the world such that if we all don’t start procreating fast, armageddon is surely afoot. The movie is called “Demographic Winter: Decline of the Human […]

by Stacey
Last Wednesday evening after the kids went to bed, I trudged around the corner to my friend Susan’s house to drink a glass of wine and make some valentines. When I got there, her dining room table was covered end to end with glitter, stickers, paper, bottle caps, little trinkets, stamps, scissors, glue, […]

by Stacey
It’s been two weeks since Heath Ledger’s body was found in his Manhattan apartment and it seems that the cause of death was accidental overdose. According to this article in Newsweek, the 28-year-old Australian-born actor and star of “Brokeback Mountain” died from a lethal combination of prescription medications used to treat anxiety, insomnia […]

by Stacey
Last week my friend Deb sent over an email describing a recent scene in her house with between her, her husband Joe, and their four-year old daughter Zara.
The other day Joe and I were talking and disagreeing about something. Not yelling, but it was obvious we were both getting irritated with each other. Zara […]

by Stacey
This afternoon I took Sage to the Child Development Lab at the University of Washington in Seattle. (Earlier this week I wrote about my visit there with Sascha.) This time I had both kids with me so I hung back and sat with Sascha instead of participating with Sage and the teacher.
Sage is such […]

by Stacey
The Open Post - Last Friday I took Sascha to the Child Development Lab at the University of Washington in Seattle. I volunteered to bring both kids on separate days for a class on human development.
When we walked in, the students, who are in a grad school program in Occupational Therapy, were sitting at […]

by Stacey
Here we go. According to this article in the NY Times, a study published today in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology says that too much caffeine during pregnancy may increase the risk of miscarriage, prompting the study authors to suggest that pregnant women consider reducing or eliminating their caffeine intake altogether. […]

Ellen M. Banner/The Seattle Times
by Stacey
Here in Seattle we have had an amazing story unfold over the last week about a baby gorilla and a team of doctors from our city’s prestigious Children’s Hospital. The gorilla, who has yet to be named, was born last October at Seattle’s Woodland Zoo. She had a congenital defect; […]