When my mom was only 13-years-old, her mother died after a painful battle with cancer.  Her father got remarried to a woman who, to put it mildly, was not the warm and fuzzy type. ...

  Our Favorite July 4th Super Simple Desserts If you've waited til the last minute, these desserts are simple ways to fire up the crowd and get a great look. Jello Firecrackers The key to these red,...

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...

These days, the first photo of our little ones emerges before they do: the sonogram. As you may have noticed, they’re not printed on the most sturdy of materials. Indeed, the Scrapbook Preservation Society (SPS)...

I took my young children to Paris for spring break last year after we went to see their grandparents in the UK.  A lot of folks asked me whether or not my kids were too...

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...

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...

When my mom was only 13-years-old, her mother died after a painful battle with cancer.  Her father got remarried to a woman who, to put it mildly, was not the warm and fuzzy type.  When...

We started our obsession with Amy Wruble when her column "40 Effed Up Things About Being 40" spread like wildfire on the web a few years ago (#27: "I still think 21-year-old guys are hot.  And...