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 | 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 | 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...
by Cool Mom Team | Art + Decor
When you spent every waking moment of your pregnancy searching for crib sheets in just the right shade of persimmon, and tormenting yourself over the weave of the nursery rug, you’re not going to put up some poster on the wall, right? All the better if the...
by Cool Mom Team | Art + Decor
If you like the idea of traditional themes for a nursery like firefighters, astronauts, or fairies, you might have found that a lot of what you’re seeing out there isn’t quite your cup o’ tea. We’ll let you in on one of our secrets: If you want...
by Cool Mom Team | Living
My kids are masters of The Heap. Think: The coat that just missed the peg on the entryway wall. The wet towel they couldn’t get onto the rack in the bathroom. The backpack they left carelessly on the floor because. . .well, where is that supposed to...
by Cool Mom Team | Art + Decor
I don’t do themed nurseries. In fact, I don’t do nurseries at all. The typical baby decor out there is way too baby-ish for me and I really don’t want to redo the kids’ rooms each time they grow out of one obsession and into another.Crib Rock...
by Cool Mom Team | Books for Adults
We’re a book family for sure. If I’m ever short on a gift idea, a book is always a home run provided it’s suited to the recipient (i.e. I’m not getting my sigOth the new Sex and the City book). With Father’s Day fast approaching (T minus...
by Cool Mom Team | Cool Tech
Let’s face it, what most guys are really hoping for for Father’s Day is that big screen TV. I know my own sigOth’s wish list includes a vast array of expensive electronic toys for boys. Like really expensive. Like the kind that require a trip to...
by Cool Mom Team | Art + Decor
I love watching my daughter saunter through the house with a guitar slung around her neck. Sure, her guitar has buttons instead of strings and comes from her dad’s Guitar Hero game, but it still looks pretty badass. This explains why I am in love with this girl...
by Cool Mom Team | Art + Decor
The modular carpet tiles from FLOR are taking the design world by storm with their new offerings by the renown mid-century textile designer, Alexander Girard. But eh, who cares about the design world when there are regular old parents out there who just need smart,...
by Cool Mom Team | Cool Tech
Lately we’re finding so many cool companies that are developing products and services to help parents of kids with allergies or medical conditions and we’re all shouting a big collective whoo! about it. One of them is the parent-invented ICE Packet. No,...