BOO! We imagine this post finds you scurrying around making Halloween costumes for your children -- elaborate ones, we hope, squeezed in between your regular caregiving stuff? Or perhaps you might be more like me, Elizabeth, who could never pull myself together to make anything remotely hand-made but spent an inordinate amount of money that I didn't have buying costumes and then handing them down to the next child? The above photo makes me laugh every year. It's titled The Gr

It might be hard to believe, given the subject matter, but today we had a rocking good conversation with Traci Nagy, the founder of Feeding Tube Awareness Foundation. We all agreed that never had we dreamed of such a discussion, but neither had we dreamed that we would be caregivers of children with complex medical needs and connected to one another in such interesting and enduring ways. Traci created the non-profit in 2010 to educate the public and change perceptions of tube

Jason and Elizabeth welcome Sandra Stein back on the show to kick off November's National Family Caregiver Month, or as we've dubbed it: NaFaCaMo, which you should just pronounce -- well -- it's not family-geared language. In all seriousness, stay tuned for a hilarious podcast that will launch at the end of the month, just in time to kick out Halloween and usher in Who Lives Like This?! version of NaFaCaMo. We promise that afterward you will be laughing through the entire mon

In today's podcast, Jason and Elizabeth spoke with Jennifer Siedman and Blyth Taylor Lord about an amazing community called the Courageous Parents Network. The two met through their shared experience of caring for and then losing a child with a life-limiting disease, but as Blyth stated so eloquently, "There are many parents that we meet, and we all have empathy and feel connected with each other. There are the parents where you feel an immediate connection that isn't just ab