More coolness from recent weeks…
Green Mountain Mustard: Don’t be looking for any of that flavorless yellow stuff here.
Tomorrow is National Mustard Day. And yes, I know, it seems like there's a holiday for every darn food on the planet (National Aqua Jellybean Day, anyone?) but this is one I can get behind. First, you must know that growing up in my family, yellow mustard in a...
11 gourmet popsicle recipes that are easy enough to make with your kids on hot summer afternoons. Commence licking.
We've hit that sweltering time of summer when it feels like we're about to melt here in the south, so I'm pulling out my popsicle molds and making the desserts my kids beg for on really hot days. Even though the flavors of these gourmet popsicle recipes are worthy of...
Lucky Palm Tree: Luxury organic baby clothes that make you happy to have a baby to shop for.
Well, here I go again. After five years of heavy spousal debate we are expecting a brand new bundle of girlie joy this winter. And YES that counts as my big announcement! We are ecstatic, but we're finding ourselves in the position of shopping for baby clothes again,...
Bottle Bright: the water bottle cleaner that does the work you’d rather not.
We've all found that one dirty, stinky water bottle lost at the bottom of a kid's backpack after a week of non-use, right? (At least I hope I'm not the only one.) Well, I've found Bottle Bright, an incredible solution from an incredible company that can take any water...
Tea Collection goes Bauhaus. As in, German art. Not English goth rock (though that would be cool too)
Each year, my beloved Tea Collection (my girls absolutely live in the stuff) finds another country around the world for inspiration and I'm really digging the new Bauhaus collection for Fall/Winter 2014 that just launched this week. (Can you handle fall fashion yet?...
Fun summer craft for kids: Story starters grab bag, with free printable artwork
Whether you're hosting a sleepover in your backyard under the stars, sending the kids off to summer camp, or packing up the camping gear and heading out on a family retreat in the car, make-your-own stories can be a fun, low-tech way to stay entertained. So I came up...
Music for kids: 5 terrific new albums for the whole family, from hip-hop, to pop, to banjo.
Put away that cartoony music for kids that makes you want to jump 0ut of the car. We have better options! Because our favorite kindie artists like Secret Agent 23 Skidoo, Recess Monkey, The Not-Its!, and others have been busy this summer putting together great new...
Save money and stay healthy with these 9 awesome travel snack recipes. (They’re so good you’ll actually be psyched to travel with kids.)
Traveling with kids is challenging enough without having to deal with hunger meltdowns—and I don't just mean the kids. Whether you're flying or road tripping, we've always preached that having an arsenal of snacks on hand is key to smooth travels. These homemade...
AXL Brand organic infant clothing: For those who like the baby to shine more than the clothes.
We're always so excited to find a new designer making stylish, modern clothes for babies and kids, because as we've preached for years now, there is more to baby style than appliquéd sequin puppy dogs playing baseball. (Sorry, puppies.) That's why I'm excited to share...
Mix It Up! A wonderful, interactive book for kids. No not an e-book, an actual book.
I was instantly captivated by Hervé Tullet's 2011 best-selling Press Here, with it's "interactive" pages that remind us you don't need a screen to engage a child. Now he's back with a wonderful follow-up in Mix It Up! which is similarly playful and engaging, only this...
A natural wooden dollhouse so adorable, an elephant couldn’t forget it. Especially in this case.
We've seen just about everything in the dollhouse world, but we've never seen an elephant you could live in. The natural wooden dollhouse called the Ele Villa ("elephant house"), from natural, sustainable toy company Rock and Pebble definitely brings something new to...
7 tips for keeping your car seat clean. Or, mostly clean. We’re realists.
Having lived through hundreds of road trips with dozens of children between us all, we're no strangers to the joys (ahem) of keeping your child's car seat clean. Or at least, attempting to. So on behalf or our newest sponsor, Evenflo, makers of some of our favorite...
Wear your book on your sleeve with these awesome literary temporary tattoos from Litograph.
"Let life be merry" with gorgeous literary temporary tattoos that let you flaunt your favorite books without needles or accidental misspellings. We're big fans of Litograph, since we first discovered their awesome literary tees. And now they've launched Litograph...
5 of our favorite cool tech picks you don’t want to miss this week
In case you missed them, here are 5 of our most popular tech picks from Cool Mom Tech this past week. Enjoy! 1. Impressed at what this designer does to old luggage. 2. If you take lots of photos with your smartphones (isn't that all of us?), this gadget is for...
The ultimate cute self closing pacifiers for germaphobe parents
None of my kids had any interest in baby pacifiers, which was not for lack of trying on my part, let me tell you. If they had, I know that my germaphobic tendencies mean that I would have carried around lots of extra clean binkies and pacifier wipes, and tried to...
Pretty food photographs spice up the kitchen. Literally.
I don't have much space on my kitchen walls these days (I blame it on that folder that comes home on the last day of school filled with more art than my kids could have possibly created in only one year). But if I did, I know exactly what would be going up there. Food...
Sea Squirts swim vests: Go ahead, hum the Jaws theme
My youngest daughter isn't a strong swimmer yet, and feels much more comfortable when she goes "under the mushroom" and its cascade of water at her Grandma's community pool while wearing a swim vest of some sort. So when I saw the sleek, lightweight, and super cool...
Join us for a Twitter social to help you get ready for back to school
While you're all still lounging by the pool, making the most of your linen, or squeezing in a last minute vacation with the family, we're already thinking about helping parents out for back to school season. (Oh, the sacrifices we make for you.) So we're so excited to...
9 creative summer Sangria recipes to make you crave a trip to Barcelona
As much as we love margaritas, mojitos and skinny cocktail recipes, sometimes summer calls for a glass of wine. Not just any glass of wine, but a refreshing, chilled, fruit-filled glass of wine, better known as sangria. Check out these 9 unexpected, creative sangria...
5 of our favorite Pinterest pins of the week
Obsessed with Pinterest as we are? Follow us! Then find cool pins like these every day from our site and beyond. 1. Perfect baby gift for the tech generation 2. One of the nicest free printable party invitations we've seen. 3. The gift your kids will want,...
Babyganics: The safe spray sunscreen we’re using, because it actually works.
Parents everywhere groaned when we heard the recommendation earlier this summer that parents should stop using spray sunscreen because of the danger of inhaling the stuff. Not to get alarmist (you can also tell your kids to close their mouths when you spray?), that...