My Family Blog

Take a Ride on the Mark Twain I know many a family, who when visiting Disneyland, that head straight for the E-ticket rides from Space Mountain to the Matterhorn to Dumbo. But in doing so they not only spend a whole lot of time in long lines, but they miss out on so many magical [...]

Paul Corby, 23, has been denied placement on the heart transplant list. Karen Corby’s husband died at age 27 of a stroke, due to an undiagnosed heart condition. Now she is fighting for a heart transplant for her 23-year-old son, who has the same condition. Paul Corby has Left Ventricular Noncompaction, a rare, congenital disorder [...]

Take a Ride on the Mark Twain I know many a family, who when visiting Disneyland, that head straight for the E-ticket rides from Space Mountain to the Matterhorn to Dumbo. But in doing so they not only spend a whole lot of time in long lines, but they miss out on so many magical [...]

My husband and I argue about damn near everything. From how often to shut down the computer, to how awesome I drive, to the temperature on the thermostat, we argue about it…agree to disagree…and then argue some more. It’s exhausting, infuriating, and the secret to a happy marriage? Quite possibly. According to The Stir, a [...]

Paul Corby, 23, has been denied placement on the heart transplant list. Karen Corby’s husband died at age 27 of a stroke, due to an undiagnosed heart condition. Now she is fighting for a heart transplant for her 23-year-old son, who has the same condition. Paul Corby has Left Ventricular Noncompaction, a rare, congenital disorder [...]

Daddy? Daddy? A friend of mine snapped this picture today (left) of a baby hangin’ out all alone on the front of her dad’s bike, the bike just leaning up against a fence. It looks as if the baby is totally unattended, but when I asked my friend if the dad had disappeared completely, he [...]

Amelia Rivera Amelia Rivera, a four-year-old New Jersey girl with Wolf-Hirschhorn Syndrome who was initially denied a kidney transplant by Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia last January, will be getting a new kidney after all. The kidney will be donated by her mother, Chrissy Rivera. Ms. Rivera wrote in a blog post yesterday: ...

Beyond, “Mom, can I have a snack?” there are questions I hate being asked, particularly by men. From whether or not I’m on my period to what the hell I do all day, questions such as these ballsy and inconsiderate. When my fellow Babble blogger, Marinka tackled 5 Questions Men Should Not Ask Women, my [...]

You did what?! Just last week Babble published an article by writer Gillian Telling titled “Beware the Google Monster: What will happen when my child types me into a search engine?”  Telling raises an issue oft discussed among bloggers, especially those with kids — just how much of our identities are OK to share online? [...]

Mother-in-law problems span the globe. Whenever I write about mothers-in-law, I always hear from a handful of wives who say they get along fabulously with their husband’s mother. But the overwhelming majority of readers confess that the relationship with their mother-in-law is less than ideal, if not downright tumultuous or even in some ...