by Cool Mom Team | Books for Adults
Forget the cloth diapers meticulously arranged in the shape of a three-tier cake and get your sister or girlfriend something she’ll really want to use. Like the book, Why Babies Do That: Baffling Baby Behavior Explained by Jennifer Margulis. Jennifer answers all...
by Cool Mom Team | Art + Decor
Sure the race cars, planes, and firetrucks are fun and all, but how cool would you be if you brought homea few monsters for your kid’s wall instead? Very cool, we think. Artist Erica Gilbert of Kept Fresh has created the cutest monsters have ever seen (aside...
by Cool Mom Team | Cards + Stationery
It’s always a challenge to find the right stationery for the wonderful (yet daunting) post-shower or birthday party thank-you list. And even when you do, if you buy too many, you’re stuck with 15 cards that scream "thank you for the lovely shower...
by Cool Mom Team | Cards + Stationery
I don’t entirely understand all the ducks and lambs and barnyard animals on children’s stationery. I mean in my urban neck of the woods, where does a child even see any of those things, let alone grow to love them? ‘Round these parts, it’s all...
by Cool Mom Team | Art + Decor
Lots of kids go bonkers for bugs. But if you’re like me, you’d rather not be collecting those winged suckers in your house, thankyouverymuch. You can keep nature outside and still enable your child to explore the intricacies of living things, with the...
by Cool Mom Team | Art + Decor
Sometimes I get tired of being the go-to gal for any kind of creative writing. Need a poem for your second cousin’s daughter’s fifth grade graduation? An apologetic letter to overbearing in-laws? A newsletter for the softball team?I’m the one who...
by Cool Mom Team | Books for Adults
Surely every parent agrees that whatever it is that gets our kids into reading, we’re all for it. (Okay, maybe not the SI swimsuit issue. But pretty much anything else.) Which is why we just love Books to Check Out for Kids, a journal from the always cool...
by Cool Mom Team | Art + Decor
I always think I’m taking the most beautiful, professional, ready-to-be-blown up to 22×30 photos–only to process the film and realize just how mistaken I was. Not Alicia Bock. A mother of two, ecclectic gardener, and award-winning photographer who...
by Cool Mom Team | Cards + Stationery
They struggled for four plus years. Dealt with an annoying roommate, egotistical advisor, and really bad food. So, you can’t just give them any old graduation card. Why not try this cute card over at Shades of Violet? But it’s just a cap on a string, you...
by Cool Mom Team | Books for Adults
I just finished reading Judith Warner’s Perfect Madness: Motherhood in the Age of Anxiety. Considering I haven’t read a book since I became a mother, that in itself should tell you a lot. But, in order to pass the time at the gym, I have been known to read...
by Cool Mom Team | Cards + Stationery
You could get the coffee mug-chocolate candy-apple tote bag combo that every teacher truly treasures. (Ha.) Or you could actually get them something that they aren’t going to pawn off to their friends and neighbors. So, in honor of Teacher’s Day today,...
by Cool Mom Team | Art + Decor
There’s a few things you don’t realize the importance of until after you have kids. Okay, there’s a lot of things, but as of late, it’s night lights. I don’t want to jinx myself, but I’m pretty certain our new toddler bed child will...
