by Danielle | Food + Recipes
Last year, my daughter had a blast creating custom place settings for each guest at our Thanksgiving table. The setting for her little brother had a school bus on it. The setting for my stepmother’s mom featured a giant eye to symbolize her over-use of eye...
by Cool Mom Team | Food + Recipes
I know I’m not the only mama out there went a little nutty trying to down those 10 glasses of water a day during pregnancy. I’m all for hydration, but after a while it was nice to change up to (caloric) juice or (mildly verbotten) iced tea. San...
by Danielle | Food + Recipes
When I was pregnant with my daughter, I was very careful about what I ate. No booze, no sushi, and hearing that soft, raw milk cheeses could be harmful, sat quietly weeping while my friends and family gorged on oozy, stinky Epoises. It was a tough nine months.Those...
by Cool Mom Team | Food + Recipes
I’ve already blown my promise to make Christmas cookies, Valentine’s cookies and first day of school cookies this year, so I’m hoping to make amends this Halloween. Although at this point I’m on the hook to make it a doubly special...
by Danielle | Food + Recipes
Food allergies suck. I am very lucky to have kids who don’t have them (knock wood), but with a fish allergy of my own, I am sympathetic to those who do. I still remember crying at camp when the kids ate fish sticks and I had to have a sandwich.I know. Fish...
by Danielle | Food + Recipes
Every fall, when the new school year rolls around and I stare down at that bane of my existence, the empty lunchbox, I tell myself that this year will be different. But every year by about December, my daughter is getting virtually the same lunch every single day, and...
by Cool Mom Team | Food + Recipes
I love a baby shower, but for the life of me, I have yet to bring home a favor that I don’t immediately pass off to my oldest as a “cool prize mommy picked just for you!” However if you decide to order up some of the yummy Baby Ladybug Chocolates...
by Julie | Food + Recipes
I’m one of those lucky women with a husband who loves to cook. The man not only knows the difference between tarragon and cardamom, he actually cares. Too bad our girls still prefer kiddie foods. So we’re making a last ditch-effort to cultivate some taste...
by Cool Mom Team | Food + Recipes
Ridding my home of all of our plastic water bottles of questionable safety felt good, but then I realize- duh-I needed some water bottles. Enter I Love Obento’s adorably decorated aluminum bottles. How adorable? My favorite for the kids has a tiny elephant...
by Cool Mom Team | Food + Recipes
I spend a lot of time complaining about breakfast, but that’s what happens when you take an anti-morning person and add kids. One of my tricks for dealing with mornings when I’m feeling less than perky is to hand over a breakfast bar. So when my old friend...
