by Cool Mom Team | Art + Decor
I cannot tell you how many times my husband has busted through the door after a long day of work only to singlehandedly wake up the baby who I just got to sleep. Talk about grounds for divorce. Too bad I didn’t have the Awake & Asleep friends from lovemedo....
by Cool Mom Team | Cards + Stationery
I realize that unless someone actually sent me a gift after my babies arrived, then technically speaking, the thank-you should come from the baby – hence all the cutesy thank you cards.But I figure that since I’m the one writing out the darn...
by Cool Mom Team | Cool Tech
Are you reading this post right now on the other side of a Comodore 64? Reluctant to give up that original Walkman? Wondering why you just can’t find any good Betamax tapes these days? Well have we got news for you.One of the cooler promotions we’re...
by Cool Mom Team | Cards + Stationery
Some of my fondest memories of lunchtime as a kid involved reaching into my brown paper lunch bag and feeling around between the sandwich and the granny smith apple for a surprise note from my mom, replete with her trademark curly-haired happy face sign-off....
by Cool Mom Team | Books for Adults
If you’re shopping baby names (or just browsing), you have to check out Lorilee Craker’s A is for Atticus: Baby Names from Great Books which give you far more erudite options than naming your child for the latest celeb du jour. Or worse, the latest celeb...
by Cool Mom Team | Living
Considering I have yet to figure out the formula that will make my son eat even one vegetable consistently without tossing it at my head, I’m willing to try anything, like this Gimme Veggie bowl from London trained clay artist May Luk.Perhaps it’s silly to...
by Cool Mom Team | Cards + Stationery
Frequent CMP readers know that whoo-hoo! is about our most favorite phrase in the whole wide world. Whoo-hoo you won a free stroller! Whoo-hoo we’re featured in Real Simple Magazine! Whoo-hoo we just discovered the best ever cupcakes and ate all 12 of them in...
by Cool Mom Team | Art + Decor
We’ve been evangelists for room decor-by-decal (and decal and decal and decal and decal) from the beginning. Just search our site for “decal.” There’s lots. In part because we know that tastes change faster than you can say ooh, look at that...
by Cool Mom Team | Kitchen + Dining
When I got married (the first time… ahem), we received endless items from Crate and Barrel. And don’t get me wrong, it’s all very useful stuff, but… well… plain. Boring. So color me surprised to see that C&B’s younger, hipper...
by Cool Mom Team | Cards + Stationery
I had my fair share of hearty chuckles after discovering Motherhood with Attitude’s hilarious greeting cards last year. So when co-owner Janalee Chmel clued me in to their new Thank You Card Box Set, it’s no wonder I nearly peed my pants again....
by Cool Mom Team | Baby, Books for Adults
If you’ve been pining for the kind of baby book you might still pull off your mom or grandmother’s shelves when you go for a visit, why I think we’ve actually found it. Mother Stork’s Baby Book: 100th Anniversary Edition is a beautiful volume,...
by Cool Mom Team | Living
Despite my insistence that it would never happen, the toys have in fact eaten our living room whole. I evidently can’t keep the toy animals and crayons and blocks and play silks restricted to the kids’ room, so the least I an do is find some storage that...