More coolness from recent weeks…
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
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.
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...
42 Rules for Working Moms. Culled Down from 8 Million, Perhaps.
It's challenging enough trying to figure out what to do with a screaming baby who requires your undivided attention 24-hours a day, but add a job (and blog reading and spousal attention and Project Runway) into the mix and you've got a whole other ballgame.If you're a...
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....
What’s Cool About Britax Car Seats? For One, the Names.
A few readers have recently written to ask us our favorite car seat reco, and right up there at the top is definitely Britax. These are like the Volvo of car seats - safe, well-built, thoughtfully designed, and worth every penny. I've been very happy with my Boulevard...
JetHeads: Helping Kids Sleep Better On the Plane Without Benadryl
After reading a New York Times article about how often airplanes wash their blankets and pillows and what exactly can be found in those seat back pockets...shivers. I may just have to reconsider my status as confirmed non-germophobe. And I may have to reconsider...
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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...
Read This Right After the Kids Draw the Line Down the Middle of the Back Seat
Brothers and sisters? They fight. Sometimes a lot. Sometimes even when they're grown-ups. (ahem) So when you find a book that makes you want to not fight, you better cuddle up and read it out loud to those darling children of yours.One City, Two Brothers, written by...
Nursery Themes That Don’t Suck, Even Though They Sound Like They Might
If you like the idea of traditional themes for a nursery like firefighters, astronauts, or fairies, you might have found that a lot of what you're seeing out there isn't quite your cup o' tea. We'll let you in on one of our secrets: If you want to avoid the cheese, go...
Education.com: Just Tell Your Kids It’s Called FunStufftoDo.com
Summer can be l-o-n-g when the weather is bad, the kids are bored and I refuse to turn the television on to pass the time. Thankfully, I have just discovered hundreds of activities on education.com. With a neat feature that lets me choose activities for kids based on...
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...
The Captain of the Hooks
My kids are masters of The Heap. Think: The coat that just missed the peg on the entryway wall. The wet towel they couldn't get onto the rack in the bathroom. The backpack they left carelessly on the floor because. . .well, where is that supposed to go?...
Publish or Perish
For years, "organize photos" has been at the top of my to-do list.Between piles of printed snapshots and folders chock full of digital pictures, I can never seem to make the time - meaning my piles and folders grow bigger, and the project more intimidating....