Oh, Kaed!

by Cool Mom Team | Baby

I finally came to grips withhavingto carry a diaper bag for the next year, if not more. So instead of pining after the hot leather bags for Fall that you don’t want anywhere near a leaky bottle, I found one that’s actually made for carrying them. CMP fave...

Pavarotti Lives On

by Cool Mom Team | Books for Kids

The passing of opera great Luciano Pavarotti this week has taken a wee bit of sunshine out of the world. In his honor, we found the Barefoot Book of Stories From the Opera by Shahrukh Husain, at one of our favorite publisher’s sites. The book tells the stories...

Making Al Gore Proud

by Cool Mom Team | Kids

I wince every time I take those double plastic bags home from the grocery store, but remembering to bring my own bags, let alone ones that can carry more than a few apples, seems unlikely. Well, thanks to my new cloth shopping bag from Skeeda, I’m feelingway...

Calling All Anal-Retentive First Time Moms-To-Be…

by Cool Mom Team | Living

Everyone knows that designing the nursery is one of the most painstaking endeavors of pregnancy. That is, the first nursery. Once you’re on your second kid you’re like, eh, this crib that someone left on the side of the road looks okay. (No! I kid! You...

It’s Good To Be the King

by Cool Mom Team | Baby, Kid Style

With Texas Hold-Em having taken over the world–let alone our living room one night a month–it was only a matter of time before it made its way into nurseries too. Baby Luck is a new line of tees and onesies that we found at CMP fave shop, Flying Peas that...

Hey Bud (Or Cadyn), Let’s Party

by Cool Mom Team | Helpful Services

I’m so over over-the-top birthday parties that are really all about the parents. Do you think a one year old has any idea that there’s a pony in the backyard? No, but the neighbors certainly do – and trust me, they’re not nearly as excited...

My Fellow Germaphobes, I Salute You

by Cool Mom Team | Random Coolness

For all the snickers I get from my friends for owning and proudly using a shopping cart cover, I am finally coming out to say shut up! I love it. There. I said it. It’s not only because I’m afraid to know what creeps and crawls on the handle of the nasty...

The Amazing Letterwoman

by Cool Mom Team | Entertainment + Media

“We’re all for girl superheroes!” responded my co-editor, Kristen, when I forwarded her the url for the new animated series, Word Girl. My response: “Totally!” This brand new superhero “with the colossal vocabulary” goes up...

Congratulations! It’s a Pig!

by Cool Mom Team | Baby, Kid Style

I always have trouble with those baby gifts you need to get when the parents want the sex to be a surprise. Don’t they know what a burden their surprise is on their generous friends? Don’t they know it’s all about me? The Chinese Zodiac is always a...

Style-Conscientious

by Cool Mom Team | Baby, Kid Style

Onlytwo minutes of searching the web forbabyshoes for my newly crawling little man of the house and I’m drowning in a sea of leather booties. Love leather booties, but isn’t there something different out there? Enter my saviors, Veja baby shoes, which we...