After discovering Courtney Chu's original recycled t-shirt dresses , I am pleasantly reminded that eco-friendly kids wear doesn't necessarily mean expensive organic onesies. Hooray for that! Her sweet, definitively cool kids dresses comb…
When former CMP contributor Rebecca Woolf left us to pursue other writing opportunities, we were terribly disappointed but hugely anxious to see what brilliance she was brewing up. The result: The must-read Rockabye: From Wild to Child .…
In an increasingly paperless world, online correspondence is rapidly replacing snail mail even for major events. Does evite ring a bell? But I haven't lost my love for beautifully designed correspondence, whether offline or online, and t…
It's taken me three children in six years to reach this point, but I'm finally comfortable nursing in public - with a nursing cover. And in my search for the ideal one, I've found that most of them are the same. The JOIA Mommy Cover howe…
Raise your hand if you owned a white pair of Keds in Junior High and drew all over them and then your mom yelled at you but you didn't care because they were your Keds and you could do what you want with them, so there. Seriously, I can'…
While I'm not a member of the matchy-outfit fan club, I'm definitely partial to mix and match clothes from Daily Tea , the everyday knitwear from CMP fave tea collection. Frankly with the amount of sleep I get these days, I hardly rememb…
My kids have an uncanny sense of medical timing. Exactly two minutes after the pediatrician's office closes, one (or both) will develop a high fever, raging earache, or troublesome cough. Two minutes after that I'll be consulting my frie…
If you are like me and think you don't need yet another stuffed animal, then you have not met Bla Bla Kids' newest addition to their cuddly family, The Boogaloos . Similar to all of Bla Bla Kids' amazing pieces , the 15 various Boogaloos…
In my mind, "lucky socks" means that I don't lose one every time I do the wash. But in the case of Fortune Tootsies , I think it means your baby will have extra luck when he wears them. Each pair is emblazoned with fortune cookie wisdom …
Why why why why why oh why did no one tell me about the Car Seat Gate Check Bag until now? Oh, it would have been so handy on those flights where we were promised the airline would block the middle seat for us...and then didn't. And then…
With my kids' birthdays now close enough on the horizon that I can smell the beer bill (what can I say, we have fun parties) I've definitely got their birthday attire on the brain . I'm partial to the cute photo-ready outfits that may or…
I'm fascinated by tales from other parts of the world, and being from Iowa, equally fascinated by all deer not on the grill of my car. Tenzin's Deer by Barbara Soros is lyrically written and illustrations from Danuta Mayer keep little sq…
When I was expecting, I dutifully put a tummy time play mat on my registry. It came complete with lights, music and hanging rattles, and to be honest, it was slightly less than beautiful and slightly more than stimulating. If I had only …
If I woke up Mother's Day morning to two smiling children bearing breakfast I would be delighted. If I woke up to two smiling children bearing breakfast and roses I would be extra-delighted. But if I woke up to two smiling children weari…
If bowling shirts for little boys ever went out of style I'd be sad. No, scratch that - I wouldn't be sad, because I'd continue buying them for all my friends' kids regardless. And hopefully, even then, I could continue to count on Georg…
Not every mama in my life has the same taste in baby gifts that I do. Shocking, I know, but some of my friends really do prefer smocking and gingham and sweetness and light to some of the more, um, contemporary items I gravitate to. One …
When a product is presented as the "Ultimate Family Organizer" it's setting the bar pretty high. You nearly expect it to come with a personal assistant and three more hours in the day. But Mom's Ultimate Family Organizer from our friends…
We have to be careful that Cool Mom Picks doesn't turn into Cool Dresses For Little Girls Picks. But man, it's hard to avoid when there are so many sweet offerings this season, particularly as this year's hot floral print trend suits the…
Buying the kid's first tricycle was wrought with way more emotion than I had expected. It's like the first time you tell your kid Go! Be free! Off on your own! Despite the fact that she'll still need the occasional push off an uneven sid…
Not all of us looking for kid-sized table and chairs are looking for our playrooms. Because, um, ain't got no playroom. Instead what we're hoping for is something we can put in the living room that doesn't look like a polycarbonate plast…
Six hundred or so digital photos later and I couldn't find one that was just right for the announcements. (To say nothing of the pics of me for which I should have demanded professional lighting and Vaseline over the lens.) The baby: Per…
The notion of a dress "that twirls" used to seem kind of foo-foo to me until I thought back to my own childhood and my many hours simply spent spinning. I was like that kid in Parenthood who just spun until I fell down for fun, while oth…
I'm more than happy to oblige my daughter's new dinosaur obsession, that is if I could find a cool shirt that doesn't display a mean, scary T-Rex. I'm prefering Hildegard , my new favorite bike-riding dinosaur from parent-run label Playg…
Today is April 11. Which in most parts of the country doesn't mean a whole lot. (Except for you, Joss Stone - happy birthday!) But around CMP it means it's exactly one month until Mother's Day, a perfect time to launch our second annual …
