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Organic Bedding Just Keeps Getting Cuter

Organic Bedding Just Keeps Getting Cuter

Of all the splurges one can make when it comes to decorating the nursery, the one I always fantasized about was fabulous organic bedding. It's a purchase you can feel good about (good for the environment! good for baby!) plus there's little cozier than a nice soft...

The Loch Ness Hoodie

The Loch Ness Hoodie

My sister's lament is that there aren't enough boys' clothes for her son that are cute without being cutesy - cutesy including things like pastel colors, puppy motifs, and embroidered sayings like, Mommy's Lil' Slugger. I can't wait to show her the adorable hoodies...

Put Another Shrimp on the Barbie

Put Another Shrimp on the Barbie

With my kids loving their play kitchen (hello, best investment ever!) I'm getting a little tired of the heavy spaghetti and meatball dinners. How about a little summer fare, like this adorable BBQ Grill set found at Nico & Zoe? Almost identical to the real thing...

A Kids’ Keepsake Kids Keep Themselves

A Kids’ Keepsake Kids Keep Themselves

Admittedly, I'm terrible at keeping a record of what's going on with my kids other than the pictures and stories I post on my own personal blog. But now that my daughter is old enough to draw her own pictures and tell her own stories, I couldn't help but be totally...

Dapple: Natural Dish Soap That Works. Naturally.

Dapple: Natural Dish Soap That Works. Naturally.

BPA-free baby bottles and pacifiers. Natural wood teethers. Organic baby food. We think a lot about what goes into the mouth of babes, but what about the soaps we use to clean off those bottles, nipples, spoons or pacifiers?Exactly. Fortunately two moms were one step...

A Band of Bamboo

A Band of Bamboo

By this pregnancy, number three, I'm pretty familiar with the plethora of maternity belly bands that allow we lucky pregnant women to continue wearing our regular shirts. Or, if you're me, make the bizarrely short maternity shirts actually cover the top of your pants....

How to Buy an American Quilt

How to Buy an American Quilt

I am lucky enough to have a mom who slaved over handmade quilts for each of my daughters, creating two very special one-of-a-kind heirlooms. I'm doubly lucky that they're not some cheesy grandma quilts, but exquisite, modern, and very very me. For the rest of you...

Greeting Cards You Can Wear

Greeting Cards You Can Wear

In our digital age, receiving an actual real live handwritten greeting card goes a really long way. So imagine how it feels to get a handwritten greeting shirt instead. Meet Greeteez, a new company which is apparently in the business of making moms (and...

Squirrely

Squirrely

Honestly, I didn't understand the appeal of the pull toy until after I had kids. I was like so, they just....pull it?Sure enough, yes. And sure enough, kids go nuts for them. Nuts being the perfect segue for what may be the most beautiful pull toy maybe ever: The...

Top Chef Comes to Your Kitchen. Yes, Sam Too.

Top Chef Comes to Your Kitchen. Yes, Sam Too.

Yesterday, both my kids' daddy and my own daddy opened up their brand new copies of Top Chef: The Cookbook. Which is why I held this review until today. Publisher Chronicle Books always does an outstanding job with their titles and this canvas-covered tome is no...

Wall Papers

Wall Papers

When you spent every waking moment of your pregnancy searching for crib sheets in just the right shade of persimmon, and tormenting yourself over the weave of the nursery rug, you're not going to put up some poster on the wall, right? All the better if the artwork of...

E-Cards That Don’t Make You Cringe As You Press Send

E-Cards That Don’t Make You Cringe As You Press Send

For those of you who woke up this morning thinking Oh [your favorite expletive], I forgot to send a Father's Day card! we've got you covered with the hilarious free e-cards from Rattlebox. Click over now and you have a whole selection of honest-to-goodness, very funny...

Reigning Men, Hallelujia

Reigning Men, Hallelujia

We could tell you that instead of set of boxers this Father's Day, a better idea would be to have gotten your guy a pair of organic cotton fair trade drawstring trousers for lounging around the house, from the very stylish UK shop Love Eco. And that would be true. But...

Summer Sling

Summer Sling

The SolarVeil sling from Mamma's Milk has taken up permanent residence in my pool bag, right next to the sunscreen. Because my baby boy has that pale porcelain skin that absolutely must be shielded from the sun, but with two older kiddos who adore the pool (okay, I do...

Sundresses That Aren’t So, Um, Sunny

Sundresses That Aren’t So, Um, Sunny

It's hard not to be smitten with sundresses for little girls - they're so sweet, so springy, so totally age appropriate. I could, however, live without the Laura Ingalls fabrics. So when a friend bestowed my youngest daughter with a totally awesome sundress made from...