It's probably pretty clear that my favorite time for shopping is anytime, but I do so love the end of season sales - and what a doozy we found over at Parasols Kids Boutique. If you act fast, you can grab designer duds for your kids rang…
If there were ever a Fall/Winter collection I've been waiting for, it's the one from one of my favorite kid's shoe designers, See Kai Run. And while my kids will probably be in sandals for a few more months down here in the Deep South, t…
In case you missed it, you've still got until tomorrow, Sunday, to enter to win the super fabulous new HP Mini 210 netbook and the utterly adorable HP V5040u Camcorder . No, seriously. You can win both of them. Would we kid? (Well, maybe…
If you missed Cool Mom Picks editor Liz Gumbinner on the Today Show this morning, fear not: We've got the clip right here . Catch Liz chatting with Meredith Viera (who was wearing seriously killer shoes!) and sharing some of our favorite…
I love small things. I do. Crazy about little things. So when HP offered up the new HP Mini 210 and the utterly adorable HP V5040u Camcorder to review, we leaped at the chance to see if they were as fabulous as they looked. The answer: Y…
One of my favorite gifts from my baby shower was the lovely DSLR camera I received. Having spent years taking out-of-focus pictures of my cats, I'd hoped having a high quality digital camera would prevent me from taking the same out-of-f…
We're so excited that Cool Mom Picks editor Liz Gumbinner will be joining The Today Show tomorrow to talk about some of the cool back to school picks in our Back to School Shopping Guide. The best part might be that Liz gets to share the…
I've breastfed my kids for a combined 53 months, and as you might imagine, I've collected my fair share of nursing gear. So in honor of World Breastfeeding Week, I'm sharing my personal top 5 nursing picks. Hooray boobs! [Awesome giveawa…
We've long adored the cute, unique little kid backpacks from Little Packrats (now PVC-free, by the way!), but now that some of our little kids are turning into big kids, we're glad that they've added some new bags just for them. The new …
It seems like just yesterday I was proclaiming my love for the new TOMS wedges for summer. And I pretty much was, actually, but now that fall is around the corner, wouldn't you know TOMS launched a new line just in time for me to make th…
The piles of books and catalogs on our desks around here have gotten completely out of control, and with another official reader in our house, I only foresee more clutter in our future. So that's why I'm digging these desktop bookshelves…
We wish we could give every single one of our subscribers a million dollars. Tax-free. That's just how much we love you. Until that day, we can make at least one of you happy with a super awesome giveaway worth $1200. (Really!) [Super fa…
We were so happy to hear that Babycenter was planning to relaunch their popular blog Momformation with truly awesome bloggers. So you can imagine we were even happier that they invited us to be contributors! Visit us every Thursday each …
Childhood diaries are always depicted as the tool of brooding, angry, angst-filled goth girls; more Heathers than Clueless . Personally, my own first journal was filled with a lot lighter fare. And a whole lot of bad rhyming poetry and o…
I'm loathe to buy any new maternity clothes in the middle of my 3rd trimester, but it's also the point in my pregnancy where all my favorite items start to get a little tight - except for my one all-time favorite piece, my trusty BumpSty…
I was absolutely blown away when my four year-old, in a single day, suddenly mastered lowercase letters. No thanks to me, of course. This time, all the credit goes to the new Brain Quest write and erase alphabet book . Filled with 40 pag…
After all these years of crushing hard on the cool kid's clothes from Appaman , it's high time that they added an accessories line. And just in time for back to school time . I'm really digging their hats, like the pilot hat in a cool st…
We're lunch packers around my house, but when there's no microwave to heat up anything, it makes it challenging to pack the hot lunch my daughter would beg for. Too bad we didn't have new Crocodile Creek insulated food jars , now at mom-…
I've learned over the years it's nearly impossible to register for everything that you will need for your new baby. In fact, I've got a huge list of items that I wish I had thought of asking for or even just ordering for myself. And up h…
If my kids are any indication, Stickermania may in fact be an actual medical condition. It strikes kids between 2 and 3, can last as long as a decade, and side effects may include weak and broken nails--your own--after scraping stickers …
I guess I must have just assumed that Hallmark already offered customizable baby announcements because they're pretty much the greeting card pioneers. But apparently, that was not the case, since I just got word that their brand new line…
I've owned my fair share of diaper bags, and I've definitely got a sweet spot in my heart for the huge, honkin', very pricey bags that might just fit all your personal belongings and your baby. But by the same token, it's just not feasib…
I'm a huge fan of hitting end of season sales to outfit my kids for the following year. The clothes are still cute one year later (imagine that!) and even better, I can usually score the more expensive designer brands that I've been cove…
I have a soft spot for nursery rhymes and classic kids' stories, both of which seem to be slowly dying in our age of technology and television. But the folks at Sprout San Francisco have revived one of my favorite tales with a cool new s…
