My Family Blog

When you head to the hospital to have your baby, everyone wants to tell you what to pack. Well, I do too. But in all honesty, there are so many things I’d wish I’d had both times around. Especially with Bella as we were there about 2 days after she was born, it was hard [...]

Children to the left, jokers to the right It’s not as if anyone expects teachers and school administrators to be perfect. Most parents do, however, expect that teachers and school administrators should be able to spell the word “spell.” It’s hard to emphasize the importance of good spelling to kids when those charged ...

When you head to the hospital to have your baby, everyone wants to tell you what to pack. Well, I do too. But in all honesty, there are so many things I’d wish I’d had both times around. Especially with Bella as we were there about 2 days after she was born, it was hard [...]

Busted! It’s one thing to read about how hugging has been banned in some schools. It’s a whole other thing to read about how a 12-year-old was actually punished for doing it (according to Australia’s Herald Sun). A school in New Jersey put the kibosh on hugging earlier this year because of “some incidents of [...]

Is there still poop in there? Awesome! Maybe your family’s Thanksgiving gatherings are functional. Although, who are we kidding? No one’s Thanksgiving gatherings are functional. It’s as if stock photo companies — those businesses that supply generic photos on every imaginable topic that you can buy if you don’t have ...

When you’re pregnant, it’s easy to forget how brief it all really is, how special these fleeting moments are that you carry a child. I love to have jewelry that symbolizes different memories, from the Mama necklace when I had Bella, to the initials one for my twins. Rarely do I wear something that doesn’t [...]

The first day that Avery started crawling, she made sure to explore every single nook and cranny of our apartment. It had been a while since I went around the place to make sure everything was out of reach for a baby. I was so used to having my toddler around who knew what she [...]

A young Audrey Hepburn? I’m pretty sure my older daughter Petunia, 4, is mine because I was there in the delivery room when they cut her out of my belly. However, given that there was curtain separating my head from the rest of my body and I didn’t actually see her until, like, a minute [...]

It's no secret both presidential candidates are rich. One of them is just more discreet about it than the other. Mitt Romney catches a lot of flack for having a lot of money. But he’s hardly the first politician to have many, many zeroes tacked on to the end of the balance in his bank [...]

It's not about material things, it's about each other Andy Kopsa is a New York-based freelance journalist who once called New Orleans home. She was back in the Big Easy this week, although it was anything but a party when couldn’t return to New York as a result of Hurricane Sandy. Frustrated and worried about [...]