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Look yoga-fit, with or without yoga
Let me be absolutely clear, here: While I don't necessarily agree that yoga pants can only be worn for yoga, I do believe that they're closer to sweatpants than to jeans. That is to say, I don't condone the wearing of yoga pants on date night, mamas. There's a time...
A cuff to love
Confession: I'm not a huge fan of sentimental jewelry. You might notice that we don't post a whole lot of it on Cool Mom Picks, and when we do, we're pretty picky. My high standards for jewelry isn't such a bad thing, except it makes me particularly challenging to...
Add this Dan Zanes’ song to your Hanukkah playlist
Although everyone from Rod Stewart to The Black Eyed Peas seems to put out Christmas albums, it's pretty rare for anyone besides Adam Sandler to do something new and interesting with Hanukkah music. New and interesting is something Dan Zanes knows well and his...
The pretty water bottle just for grownups
"Gosh, honey. I'd love to give you my water bottle and have you spit a bunch of germs and floaty pieces of avocado into it," I said. "But Mommy's new bottle is GLASS, so it's not for kids."...and that's how I finally got to taste normal water again. But these...
The coolest things to do with kids in New York over the holidays
As a native New Yorker, I admit I'm totally biased when I say that this is one of the most magical places for a family to be over the holidays. Because I get so many emails each year from readers and out-of-town friends asking me about must-do family fun, I figured...
It’s glove season. Which means, lost glove season.
My kids lose scarves and gloves like uh...well, like kids lose scarves and gloves. While I covet so many high end handmade options, I know I take quite a risk knowing that two mittens may head out the door in the morning, and only one will return home. So I'm happy to...
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This post is brought to you by Must Have Its, featuring tips and products to help you get holiday ready. This holiday season, you don't have to worry about looking less than fabulous, even after six consecutive nights of eggnog. P&G Beauty + Grooming has an array...
Wondering what to do with your spare change? How about save some animals.
Before I was a Mom, what seems like a lifetime ago (oh, a whole four years back), I worked for the Audubon Society. It was thrilling to be involved in a community that was so passionate about conservation and protecting the wildlife we share the planet with and now...
Gourmet lollipops ain’t no Dum-Dums.
Perhaps you've poked around our holiday gift guide this year and come across the category called Gifts Under $15 That Don't Seem Cheap at All. If so, you very likely spotted the gourmet lollipops. You know the ones. The ones that call to you in your sleep whispering a...
Sandra Boynton – Udderly amazing
To say that Sandra Boynton is my favorite children's author is an understatement, (with deep props to Dr. Seuss). But truly, for the first few years of my son's life her chunky children's books were a constant. Her writing is fun, bouncy and the pictures. Oh, the...
The Coolest TV Moms and the fashion they’ve inspired – Part 1, The 1950’s and 1960’s
We love TV. Love TV! No apologies here for our pop culture addiction. It seems so far back that TV moms were just you know...funny. And not because they got Botox live in front of cameras. (Or maybe we're watching too much Bravo?) So we are happy to present a...
Bid, borrow or swap your way to a fabulous wardrobe
If eBay, Net-a-Porter, Rent the Runway and Gilt Groupe (all of my favorite shopping websites) had a baby, their progeny would look like I-ELLA.com.Launched by a fashion-obsessed entrepreneur in New York, I-ELLA weaves enough elements into the shopping experience to...
A gift for you Television Without Pity wannabe writers
I'm always looking for fun little gifts for hip friends--you know, the kind of under $15 thing that makes a big impression when you wrap it beautifully and present with love, but isn't necessarily the Hope Diamond. We've got a whole category of them in our holiday...
Chat with us about holiday gifts, live!
Need a break to gab with the girls and giggle about gifting? Want to win a gift certificate to one of our favorite online shops? Then pull up a squishy chair, grab a chai latte, and settle in for a cyberchat with the Cool Mom Picks gang at TheMotherhood. On Thursday,...
Alphabet City
We're kind of in love with Joanne Dugan around here. She's an amazingly prolific photographer, with her work in about a zillion ads, the awesome Taxi Driver Wisdom book, and most importantly to us, a magical series of children's books: ABC NYC and 123 NYC, which...
Raise your crayons for the Cool Mom Picks & Etsy ornament contest winners
You talented artists, you! You made it so hard for us to choose among all the amazing entries to our Cool Mom Picks + Etsy color your own paper ornament design contest to support Housing Works, and we have, after much deliberation, finally picked our 8 winning...
More birthdays? Sign us up.
We've been thrilled to have the American Cancer Society as a long-time sponsor on Cool Mom Picks; it's always nice when the people who support us are the ones we want to support right back. And now their MoreBirthdays.com website has taken on new life with a totally...
Prima Princessa presents the Nutcracker on PBS
One of my all time favorite holiday shows is the Nutcracker Ballet, but I didn't imagined I would get tickets to see it with my toddler for quite a long time--like, ten years, at least. Performances are expensive in New York! Which is one of the reasons that Cool Mom...
Home sweet doll home
I have this fantasy every Christmas of convincing my extended family to go together on one big gift for my children. You know, instead of everyone doing their own thing and my kids ending up with a playroom full of blinky-light, noise-making,...
Fingerless gloves find new fans in the smartphone age
Yes, I pretty much love everything from Shokay. Their gorgeous, hand-knit, fair trade items have made it into our baby shower gift guide, our 2010 holiday gift guide--and now, even our Cool Mom Tech gift guide. No, they're not making high-tech electric blankets now;...
Holiday photo cards with flair? Reader Q&A
Can you suggest some more holiday photo card sites? I'm a little bored with the same ole, same ole every year. Or, what about a site for creating your own cards with flair? -Ginger I am fairly certain that Holiday Rule #1 states that you must send out photo cards once...