by Cool Mom Team | Toys + Playthings
If you’ve always liked the idea of rubber ducks for your kids but don’t like the idea of more plastic crap in your bathtub, here’s a solution: A real rubber duck. Like, one actually made out of rubber. We found this one at GrassRoots. The site claims...
by Liz Gumbinner | Fashion
I’ve always liked conversation-piece jewelry. My feeling is you can get a lot more mileage out of one really striking piece than decking yourself out with hundreds of dollars worth of average stuff. So it figures that I’m already seeking out excuses to buy...
by Cool Mom Team | Uncategorized
Remember the good old days of driving cross-country with your parents, sprawled out across the back seat of the station wagon? Seat belts–please. Who used seat belts? While I’m actually quite glad to be breeding in the day and age of kid’s safety...
by Cool Mom Team | Random Coolness
Check my daughter’s wall shelves and you will find her books stacked in impractically haphazard piles. Why? If they tilt even 5 degrees in their upright positions, they knock the bookends over. Um, can you say design flaw? Unless your child’s library...
by Cool Mom Team | Fashion
I am guilty of committing gross cruelty to sunglasses. I stick them on my head when they’re not in use, I dump them in my bag without a case, I leave them on the coffee table where my daughter can paw at them with sticky hands. Hardly the way to treat the...
by Cool Mom Team | Cards + Stationery
I’m a journal whore. I cannot have enough blank books in every room of my house, just waiting for me to jot down inspired nuggets of brilliance, poetic stanzas, novel starters, effervescent bon mots. Or a shopping list that identifies that that I’m out of...
by Cool Mom Team | Food + Recipes
Yes, I do plan to eat that. And that. And THAT. I’m pregnant and hungry, and I’m also grumpy enough to sit on you if you get between me and my food. Only problem is, I can’t always figure out beforehand what foods are going to taste good–and...