A special book for a mama’s special thoughts

by Lexi Petronis | Baby

When our daughter was born, I did what so many mamas do: I started a baby book. I wanted to capture everything about her, along with the wonderment of being a new mom; I’d lost my own mother to cancer a year earlier, to the date, and I thought writing about...

A breakfast that you can squeeze into the morning

by Lexi Petronis | Food + Recipes

I started a new job right about the time my little guys went back to preschool. The rush to get everyone where they need to be has made our mornings a little, uh, more hectic than we’re used to. And while I do manage to give the kids a good breakfast in the...

Back to school shopping – better lunchbox snacks

by Cool Mom Team | Food + Recipes

Welcome to our second installment of our back to school shopping guide, featuring 8 better lunchbox snacks for your kids.If you’re like us, lunch packing can be a chore. To say nothing of the trips to the super market aisle in which the kids beg for any...

10 year old birthday party ideas – Reader Q&A

by Christina Refford | Party Ideas

I need ideas for my daughter’s 10th birthday..something original and wow. She’s a girly girl, loves to sing, very creative, honor student, responsible and loving. Over the years, we’ve done the bead parties, craft parties, clowns, art parties and...

Hey! You got your beets in my strawberries!

by Delilah S. Dawson | Food + Recipes

Our good friends at Revolution Foods have cooked up a new organic taste treat for your kids that combines the health of veggies with the sweetness of fruit. Trust me when I say it’s the best mash-up around– especially since it doesn’t include samples...

The joy of women cooking

by Cool Mom Team | Food + Recipes

We often think of the art of food, and the art of cooking, but we don’t necessarily think about the artfulness of the cooks themselves, and their own environments. Now a new quarterly magazine from the minds behind art magazine Where Women Create celebrates the...

Tastebudding helps make mealtime my favorite time

by Kristen Chase | Helpful Services

Some like Epicurious, some prefer FoodNetwork.com. But me, I tend to head straight to Chef Google when I need help finding a specific recipe, even though it takes a decent amount of time to nail down something that’s quick, simple, and kid-friendly. But then I...

Organic baby food for the entire family. Yes, you read that correctly.

by Cool Mom Team | Food + Recipes

Thanks to smart people figuring out that baby food doesn’t have to taste like garbage, I no longer have to cringe every time it’s mealtime for my 11-month-old. But now, baby food is so darn tasty that my older kids can’t stop eating it either....

Organic baby food that’s so good you may want to get some for yourself

by Betsy | Food + Recipes

Recently Liz and I attended the Fancy Food Show in New York where we found Tasty Baby, a line of frozen organic baby foods that may just cause me to exceed my superlatives usage quotient for the day. How do I know that this baby food tastes amazing? Because I inhaled...

You’ll be wonton Handstand Kids’ Chinese Cookbook (Heh)

by Christina Refford | Food + Recipes

Fried chicken fingers and pink boneless spareribs are not real Chinese food, I tell the kids whenever we order take-out, and now I have the latest Handstand Kids’ Chinese Cookbook to back me up. The latest from Handstand Kids’ Italian Cookbook creator...