by Cool Mom Team | Helpful Services
I love finding the best activities and spots to check out in my city. When a site does all of the legwork and offers me a list of proposed activities to check out each week, what’s not to love? That’s why I’m digging the new site The Family...
by Lexi Petronis | Helpful Services
Planning a kids’ party isn’t for the faint of heart, even though the end results (adorable cake-face photos! happy wee ones!) are always worth it. Let’s face it: life is crazybusy. So I can totally see why more and more parents are turning to...
by Stephanie Mayers | Helpful Services
We all know that personalized items make a baby’s or kid’s gift ten times more special. While many of the big catalog stores offer custom embroidery, they’ll usually only personalize their own brand’s items–which is kind of limiting. So...
by Liz Gumbinner | Random Coolness
While we love tracking down hostess gifts for all those summer weekend invitations, it probably doesn’t end with Labor Day. Especially with the holidays (eep!) coming up. So I love this fabulous, affordable gift that feels a little more fall than summer. The...
by Cool Mom Team | Helpful Services
If your kids are like mine, then getting something in the mail with their name on it completely makes their day. However when it’s filled with arts, crafts, and everything you need to make them, well, I’m pretty sure it would make their year. We’ve...
by Eva Glettner | Baby, Helpful Services, Kid Style
[updated with corrected info]There is something so special about children’s clothes with history. Hand-me-downs aren’t just a frugal choice: there’s often meaning in seeing your child in his grandpa’s favorite college sweatshirt. And now...
by Kristen Chase | Baby, Helpful Services, Kid Style
If you’re like me, then you’ve got a couple of boxes in the attic with a few of each of your kids’ baby clothes. Every now and then I wonder what exactly I’m going to do with them when I pull them out in ten years and they’re all dusty...
by Liz Gumbinner | Random Coolness
Lost drawstrings are up there at the top of all the annoying scale for me as far as clothing mishaps go. In fact, I just spent the last month frustrated that a small silk drawstring belt came out of a silk dress; I couldn’t figure out how to get it back through...
by Delilah S. Dawson | Meta
We are so happy to wish you all a Happy Father’s Day. We sincerely hope it’s filled with all the love he deserves, whether you’re all spending the day together, or making heartfelt Skype calls to all the dad-types scattered around. (Psst..stepfathers...
by Roxanna | Helpful Services
Babysitting coops, in which a group of parents agree to exchange babysitting services with each other aways sound like a great idea — until you realize that someone has to keep track of who babysat whom and manage a complicated point system. And then there are...
