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Catch Cool Mom Picks on NBC’s Today Show Thursday!
We're so excited that Cool Mom Picks editor Liz Gumbinner will be joining The Today Show tomorrow to talk about some of the cool back to school picks in our Back to School Shopping Guide. The best part might be that Liz gets to share the green room with one of our...
The Okee Dokee Brothers take us along for the ride
It's no secret that I'm a huge fan of super-fun kids' musicians The Okee Dokee Brothers: I gave their debut CD Kids with Beards a gushing review, and it's still one of my kids' most-played CDs two years later. And now they have a brand new kids' music CD, and...
A castle of one’s own
Almost every day, we drive by a castle. No, really-- it's in a field near our house, and the moat is a swimming pool, and the iron fence is guarded by concrete dwarves painted in garish colors. I can't make stuff like that up."Mommy, can we be friends with them and go...
The 2010 Cool Mom Picks Back-To-School Guide is here!
It's 104 degrees outside, and you know what that means: back to school and our annual Back to School Shopping Guide! We know-- it doesn't make much sense. But we also know that the next few ultra-sunny weeks will require new clothes, shoes, backpacks, and lunch gear....
Little Packrats – Now for your big, er, packrats
We've long adored the cute, unique little kid backpacks from Little Packrats (now PVC-free, by the way!), but now that some of our little kids are turning into big kids, we're glad that they've added some new bags just for them. The new bigger bags fit all the bigger...
TOMS Wedges – Now for Fall
It seems like just yesterday I was proclaiming my love for the new TOMS wedges for summer. And I pretty much was, actually, but now that fall is around the corner, wouldn't you know TOMS launched a new line just in time for me to make the switch. These shoes are as...
Our top 5 nursing picks for World Breastfeeding Week
I've breastfed my kids for a combined 53 months, and as you might imagine, I've collected my fair share of nursing gear. So in honor of World Breastfeeding Week, I'm sharing my personal top 5 nursing picks. Hooray boobs![Awesome giveaway after the jump!] Breast...
A blast from your past, now available in wall size
I remember vividly the first time I played Atari. The angels sang in a joyous chorus (in my head) as I spent the next two hours rotating a dial to move a single white line up and down the screen as a square ball bounced back and forth. Pong. Even now the word conjures...
On my Target shopping list: Milk. Apples. Awesome art from Poketo.
Cool Mom Picks favorite Poketo has a very simple philosophy: Make real art available to everyday people. Which is good, because I'm at my local SuperTarget pretty much every day, and that's where their latest collection will land on August 10. From water bottles to...
The Paranoid Parents Guide – Perfect beach reading for those of us afraid of shark attacks
I'll admit it, I'm a bit of a paranoid parent. But after reading The Paranoid Parents Guide, by clever Denver mom Christie Barnes, I realized how much time I waste worrying. And more importantly, worrying about the wrong things. Does this sound like it might be you...
Ferd gives boys a license to chill
Here comes Jimmy Bond. He rolls up on a black Big Wheel and requests his favorite drink: chocolate milk; shaken, not stirred. Aunts line up to pinch his cheeks. And I imagine him wearing this effortlessly cool striped shirt and tie combo from Ferd. And maybe some tiny...
Hospital gowns get a (much needed) upgrade
I know none of us cared what we looked like during the moments our babies were born. The health of baby and mama were the most important things in the universe, and there was very little room for vanity. But when I think back to all the hours (many many hours) before...
Fairy tale houses–they’re not just for fairy tales anymore
When I first saw pictures of the amazing, whimsical and unbelievably detailed fairy tale houses and furniture by Mike and Debbie Schramer I simply marveled. This brilliant husband and wife team use real flowers, branches, roots, and moss, to create these breathtaking...
Desktop bookshelves – Hold the tools and the glue
The piles of books and catalogs on our desks around here have gotten completely out of control, and with another official reader in our house, I only foresee more clutter in our future. So that's why I'm digging these desktop bookshelves from Ecolok. These simple...
Subscribing to Cool Mom Picks is like winning the lottery! (Says us.)
We wish we could give every single one of our subscribers a million dollars. Tax-free. That's just how much we love you. Until that day, we can make at least one of you happy with a super awesome giveaway worth $1200. (Really!)[Super fabulous giveaway after the jump!]...
Baby gifts with your own personal touch
Picking out a baby gift for my brand new niece, Isabella, was incredibly easy when I discovered makaboo--or difficult depending how you look at it. [don't miss a great offer, and giveaway after the jump!] Easy, because the shop has a great selection of gifts, at every...
Cool Mom Picks loves Babycenter!
We were so happy to hear that Babycenter was planning to relaunch their popular blog Momformation with truly awesome bloggers. So you can imagine we were even happier that they invited us to be contributors! Visit us every Thursday each week for, you guessed it, cool...
Behold the mysterious STEPONBOX
Talk about truth in advertising: The STEPONBOX is a storage box that also functions as a stool. That you can step on. And a ton more.Available in four Jetsons-esque color combinations, the STEPONBOX is crafted of Polypropylene and Thermoplastic Elastomeric, which in...
Dear diary
Childhood diaries are always depicted as the tool of brooding, angry, angst-filled goth girls; more Heathers than Clueless. Personally, my own first journal was filled with a lot lighter fare. And a whole lot of bad rhyming poetry and original song lyrics. That's why...
Collage on the quick at Photovisi
It was a mystery. Suddenly, they were popping up all over Facebook. And now I know where everyone created those adorable collages of their kids. The website is called Photovisi, but I think of it as "Photocollages for Dummies"-- definitely including myself in the...
It’s not junk if you display it with love
When I look around my house I find strange groupings of stuff everywhere. A bin of outgrown Crocs. A shoebox packed with old family pictures. Some coffee table books that never quite made it to the coffee table. Little did I know that these were all just charming,...