by Cool Mom Team | Cards + Stationery
Admittedly, I’m terrible at keeping a record of what’s going on with my kids other than the pictures and stories I post on my own personal blog. But now that my daughter is old enough to draw her own pictures and tell her own stories, I couldn’t help...
by Cool Mom Team | Living
BPA-free baby bottles and pacifiers. Natural wood teethers. Organic baby food. We think a lot about what goes into the mouth of babes, but what about the soaps we use to clean off those bottles, nipples, spoons or pacifiers?Exactly. Fortunately two moms were one step...
by Cool Mom Team | Baby, Fashion
By this pregnancy, number three, I’m pretty familiar with the plethora of maternity belly bands that allow we lucky pregnant women to continue wearing our regular shirts. Or, if you’re me, make the bizarrely short maternity shirts actually cover the top of...
by Cool Mom Team | Books for Adults
It’s challenging enough trying to figure out what to do with a screaming baby who requires your undivided attention 24-hours a day, but add a job (and blog reading and spousal attention and Project Runway) into the mix and you’ve got a whole other...
by Cool Mom Team | Uncategorized
A few readers have recently written to ask us our favorite car seat reco, and right up there at the top is definitely Britax. These are like the Volvo of car seats – safe, well-built, thoughtfully designed, and worth every penny. I’ve been very happy with...
by Cool Mom Team | Family Travel
After reading a New York Times article about how often airplanes wash their blankets and pillows and what exactly can be found in those seat back pockets…shivers. I may just have to reconsider my status as confirmed non-germophobe. And I may have to...
by Cool Mom Team | Kid Style
In our digital age, receiving an actual real live handwritten greeting card goes a really long way. So imagine how it feels to get a handwritten greeting shirt instead. Meet Greeteez, a new company which is apparently in the business of making moms (and...
by Cool Mom Team | Food + Recipes
Yesterday, both my kids’ daddy and my own daddy opened up their brand new copies of Top Chef: The Cookbook. Which is why I held this review until today. Publisher Chronicle Books always does an outstanding job with their titles and this canvas-covered tome is no...
by Cool Mom Team | Art + Decor
Honestly, I didn’t understand the appeal of the pull toy until after I had kids. I was like so, they just….pull it?Sure enough, yes. And sure enough, kids go nuts for them. Nuts being the perfect segue for what may be the most beautiful pull toy maybe...
