Thoroughly modern sleep sacks
Based on the color offerings of most sleep sacks out there, I'm left to believe that manufacturers think bright colors will somehow keep babies awake at night. What's with all the pastels? Well, that's exactly how mom Holly MacLean felt when she decided to launch the...
Oh the places you’ll go, looking cute
I'm a big believer in traveling with kids. It's never too early to expose them to other cities, other cultures, other foods, and hopefully, the ability to behave on an airplane. (Oh please oh please!) I'm always looking for travel goodies that help them get excited...
I heart I LEGO NY
After many months of buzz, hoopla, and general fanfare, I finally got around to checking out Christoph Niemann's I LEGO N.Y., and as a native New Yawka, I know can't imagine what I had been waiting for. This board book is everything I love in a book--it's artful, it's...
A less destructible notebook. (Hear that, writer moms of toddlers?)
At the beginning of every new year, I treat myself to a pretty, new notebook. It's an almost-literal way to start the year with a clean slate. New year, new notebook, new thoughts. The only problem with this method, now that there are children afoot: my fancy...
Even one of the pickiest girls in the world loves these clothes
My daughter is a bit of a choosy dresser. To say the least. If I'm being perfectly honest, it takes at least half an hour to get her ready every morning and she balks--nay, tantrums for an hour--if anything she's wearing is even slightly unacceptable. You know, like...
Toy storage solutions? Reader Q+A Part 2: Bins and Baskets
Yesterday a reader wrote to us about her toy storage woes, and we loaded her up with toy storage solution possibilities. Today we continue the organizational help with some of our favorite boxes, bins, and baskets. While I love putting things away where they can't be...
3 kids calendars that start the year off a little wild
It's up to me to keep my kids' schedules straight, but they still love to count down the days until the next big event, whether that day is a Saturday, their birthday, or the next candy holiday (Valentine's Day, for the record).Instead of giving them that freebie...
A chore chart that doesn’t look like a chore.
The chore chart that has worked the best for my family so far been a (not-so-pretty) laminated list with my kids' pictures that I made myself. But even then, I can't really add or change jobs unless I make a whole new chart, which made them obsolete a few months ago....
Toy storage solutions? Reader Q&A
We have wood crates, with toy fruit and veggies, crafts, blocks, trains, etc., but no way to store or organize them. Do you have a toy storage solution? Do you dump everything by category into bins or baskets, and shelve them that way? Thanks in advance, and while I...
This week on Cool Mom Tech
In case you were too busy playing with your new iPhone over the holidays, here are some top picks on Cool Mom Tech you might have missed this week-- including old things, new things, and really expensive new things that might change the world.1. Big news about Kindle...