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Like Personalized Baby Gifts But Hate Most Personalized Baby Gifts?
Nothing says "welcome baby" like a personalized gift. But aside from all the economically unfeasible keepsakes out there, I've only found a few options that 1) I can afford and 2) won't end up shoved in the back of a closet somewhere.So, take my advice and...
If You Were Turning 232 You’d Want Someone to Make a Big Deal About it Too
I have some friends who do this insane July 4 party every year as if heads of state were showing up. The food is awesome, the drinks plentiful, and the local parade passes right by their home, guaranteeing a perfect day, humidity not withstanding. If this sounds...
A Year in the Life
Here is how I recall my daughter's first year of life, seven years later: Birth. . . blur. . .neediness. . .blur. . .crawling everywhere. . . .blur. . . The big memories are there, but the details have become blurry over time. It's the photos that help me...
A Coat Hook Made With Love
We've had a thing for funky coat hooks around here lately, it seems. (See also: Elephant hook, j hook, and rock star monkey hook). And now there's another one that's just meant to love. In fact, it's all about love; it's the LOVE double coat hook from one of our...
Summer Travel With Kids Just Got 10% Easier
As a wife of a pilot who takes advantage of the perks and does a fair bit of traveling alone with two kids, I'm always on the lookout for travel helpers that make the experience a bit more tolerable. First tip: A bag of jellybeans. Second tip: Mom Kathy Drury's...
Pretty. Bitter. Awesome.
How can we resist falling instantly, madly in love with a card company called Pretty Bitter? We can't. And we didn't. Which is why you're reading about them today. We've already told you about their awesome Man Notes. But the fabulously cynical Sentimental Journey...
Turning All Your Kids’ Clothing Into UPF Clothing.
Since moving my fair-skinned family to Georgia last year, I've really had a baptism by fire(ball) when it comes to sun protection. Oh, sure, we took precautions in the sun up north, but the sun here is fiercer, hotter, and completely relentless. And is there anything...
Happy Camper Week on Cool Mom Picks: Camp Stationery, of Course
We couldn't leave you mamas with sleepaway-ready kids out of Happy Camper Week on Cool Mom Picks, so we found some camp stationery we couldn't resist. And, hopefully, neither will your kids. Which really is the point.The Camp Kits at Red Stamp may be just what your...
East Meets West
I'm pretty sure that even if I weren't Chinese, I'd still have a penchant towards Asian-inspired kids clothing. Given the chance, I could probably dress my daughter in gorgeous lotus fabrics and mandarin collar dresses all year long. But yet again, my poor son gets...
Attention Parents of Hypochondriacs
When my daughter was a toddler, it wasn't only cleaning supplies that had to go into high or locked cabinets -- we also had to hide the band-aids, lest she plaster herself head to toe every time she experienced a boo-boo. Real or imagined.To this day, she still...
Happy Camper Week: Built NY Munchlers
With extra protective parents and a ton of great outdoor resources right near our home, I saw my fair share of day camps growing up. So along with my swimsuit and an extra change of clothes, my mom always had to pack me a lunch. Of course, she never had anything as...
Big Brands Doing Cool Things: Aurora’s Eco-Plush Animals
Mostly we're fans of handmade plush around here, but we also understand that not everyone wants to spend $85 on a penguin hand-knit from recycled sweaters then hand-stuffed with locally harvested cotton (even if it is totally awesome and you would be seriously the...
Dear John (Or Aiden or Chloe or Oliver) Letters
When I left home, my mother sent my own baby book along with me. She had taken great pains to record minute details for me, including our family tree and every newborn gift I received, but it was her personal commentary - the notes scrawled on scraps of paper - that...
Happy Camper Week on Cool Mom Picks: The Camp Pack From Mabel’s Labels
If you've got a kid heading off to sleepaway camp or even day camp, you're probably hoping that he'll come back home again with the same stuff you sent him there with. Except maybe that peanut butter sandwich. Because that would be gross. Mabel's Labels makes labels...
Secret Agent Ma’am
My daughter adores cartoon characters, as she is biologically programmed to, but I don't necessarily like cartoon characters all over her clothes. (God love Diego for teaching my kid what an ocelot is but I don't feel the need to reciprocate by advertising the show...
Attention Pretend K-Mart Shoppers
Pity the average supermarket shopper; we have to push around banged-up, one-wheel- jiggling, sticky-handled metal shopping carts when we do our food shopping. If our carts looked more like the toy shopping cart from Plan Toys, I may enjoy the experience a bit more...
The Sony Alpha DSLR-A 300K: Cool Mom–and Cool Dad–Approved
This review comes courtesy of an exceptionally cool dad, Nate, my own sigOth, which I insisted on since he won't let me near the camera. Grrr. -Liz I can say without exaggeration that our apartment has been overrun by the most obnoxiously adorable everything in the...
Happy Camper Week on Cool Mom Picks: The Don’t Bite Me Bug Patch
There is no happy camping where there are mosquitoes and ticks there to ruin the fun, and so we present to you the ingenious Don't Bite Me Patch. It's one of the most awesome and natural ways we've found to protect your kids from those small buzzing beasts of summer....
A dandy alternative to backpacks for kids
My three year-old has entered that phase I'm lovingly describing as Her Jerk Phase. As in, the movie The Jerk. Remember that scene where Steve Martin says "The ashtray, the paddle thing and the remote control. And these matches. That's all I need. And this chair."...
Social Networking For a Cause
Having kids didn't make you forget about the worthy causes you've championed -- in fact, there's something about becoming a parent that often activates the save-the-world gene. But with time at a premium now, how do you reconcile passion for change with a mom's busy...
Eco-Friendly Rattles in Technicolor
While I'm definitely way pickier when it comes to buying rattles for my upcoming third baby, I admit that at times, the eco-friendly choices in their various shades of brown almost make me miss the bright colors of some of our retired plastic ones....