by Cool Mom Team | Food + Recipes, Valentine's Day
Besides unconditional love, the only thing that I want for Valentine’s Day is something chocolate and decadent. Like, say, these heart-shaped brownies from Kitchen Witch. I’ve already gushed about Casey’s ready-to-bake line of cookies, brownies and...
by Cool Mom Team | Entertainment + Media
After reading the headline to this review, you may be wondering, When did Cool Mom Picks become Cool Grandmom Picks? I hear you. When I first heard that Neil Sedaka had put out a new CD of reworked hits for kids, I thought, There is no way this is going to be my kind...
by Cool Mom Team | Kid Style
I’m not crazy about barrettes with so much going on that it’s like the hair clip enters the room before your kid does. You can keep your big crazy “corker” bows and humongo fake gardenias with rhinestone centers. Just leave me the simple little...
by Cool Mom Team | Books for Adults
Enough with those baby name books filled with what seem to be a lot of arbitrary meanings. I’m sorry, Madison does not mean “Son of Maud” – it means “I fell in love with Daryl Hannah in Splash when I was a kid too.” So as far as...
by Cool Mom Team | Fashion
Every woman needs to one one perfect, crisp button-up shirt. And by perfect I mean it fits at the shoulders, the collar isn’t better suited to the Ringling Bros. wardrobe department, and your chest isn’t busting the buttons every time you inhale...
by Cool Mom Team | Random Coolness
Sometimes you just see something and there’s absolutely no reason for you to buy it except for the fact that it’s so freaking cute you just can’t pass it up. (Good thing I don’t find Coach bags so freaking cute, right?)The handmade leather key...
by Cool Mom Team | Baby, Kid Style
Today is the official start of the Year of the Ox (Niu in Chinese), and if you’re into Chinese Zodiac, you’ll know that good things are predicted to come. Especially if you’ve got your own little Ox on the way. We love the idea of celebrating a new...
by Cool Mom Team | Food + Recipes
Those of us with food allergies in the family know the scary importance of reading food labels. So does Jackie, a New England graphic artist turned mom of a son with celiac disease. She turned her years of obsessive label reading into a company called Vanilla Spoons...
by Cool Mom Team | Books for Kids
My daughters draw the cutest things: Stick-figure women in triangle dresses, bulgy-eyed cats and larger-than-life flowers. Nothing could improve on what they dream up which is why I love artist Carla Sonheim’s new coloring book simply called, girls. Instead of...
