Sunday Night Dinners–The Importance of a Family Meeting

Last year, we were lucky enough to see best-selling author and New York Times family editor Bruce Feiler, who has done an intense study of what makes families happy, found models of what works.  One of...

Game On: Planning Family Game Night

With everyone bemoaning the loss of family time to screens, we have sought to replace weekend family movies with a game night. As with adults, sometimes there's groaning before everyone starts, but some popcorn and...

Online Baby Journaling for Sharing with Family

For all those physical mementos of childhood, Savor has you covered.  But most of us have a combination of physical and digital mementos – and for those digital ones – Tinybeans offers a great and...

What's In Your Library?: Founder of Momstamp and Mom of 4 Paulette Light shares the childhood mementos that stood the test of time

We were already in awe of Paulette Light's ability to make parenting a brood of 4 kids seem easy when we learned about her amazing company, Momstamp.  It's basically an Angie's List for all the things...

8 Tips for Getting Kids to Write Thank You Notes

Honey, Did My Package Arrive? The Dreaded Thank You Note.   Call us old-fashioned, but we are firm believers in the thank you note. Not the Internet dashed off e-mail, not a text, but an honest-to-goodness...

We Dare You Not to Cry When You See This

Make no mistake, while we make organizational products, we are, fundamentally, in the family memory business, which also means we are in the wistful, emotional, heart-strings-pulling, laugh-so-hard-your-bellly-hurts, cry-like-a-baby business.  The wizards over at Dream Machine...