Sure, Mix-A-Lot

by Christina Refford | Food + Recipes

My no-time-to-think breakfast of choice is a crunchy bowl of granola, but the good stuff has so many calories that all I can think about is how much time I’ll have to do on the elliptical to work it off. But with Mix My Granola’s Pringles-shaped tube of...

Steal this CD

by Christina Refford | Entertainment + Media

Any band that uses solar power to make their CD then encourages people to copy it for their friends makes me feel all warm and fuzzy before I’ve even heard a note. Thankfully, The Harmonica Pocket’s new kids’ music CD, Ladybug One, is filled with...

The awesome Omni Kids Suite, a.k.a a room of their own

by Julie | Family Travel

My girls have reached the age where they’d prefer not to share a hotel room with us when traveling — and to be honest, we’d prefer not to share with them either. So when we heard about the family friendly Omni Kids Suites available on a recent trip...

Oh my oh my oh dinosaurs

by Cool Mom Team | Toys + Playthings

Kids love dinosaurs and are fascinated with the idea of monstrous animals that roamed the earth and ate each other for breakfast. It’s only natural that they start asking more questions than sometimes we know how to answer– how the dinosaurs got here, what...

Play food for the future foodie

by Cool Mom Team | Toys + Playthings

If you’ve got a budding foodie in your house like I do, he just can’t cook pretend Eggs Benedict or Strawberry Chantilly Crepes on some nicked plastic pan nabbed from a garage sale.The utterly gorgeous Soop Sori Breakfast Chef Set from mom and dad owned...

High Chairs of the Rich and Totally Lucky

by Cool Mom Team | Uncategorized

A high chair isn’t exactly the kind of baby gear you think you’ll fall in love with. A crib, perhaps. A diaper bag, absolutely. But that eyesore in the middle of your dining room that you will spend the next 30 or so months of your life scraping dried baby...

Your Mama Wears Last Year’s Combat Boots

by Cool Mom Team | Kid Style

If I woke up Mother’s Day morning to two smiling children bearing breakfast I would be delighted. If I woke up to two smiling children bearing breakfast and roses I would be extra-delighted. But if I woke up to two smiling children wearing the super cute...

New, and In No Need of Improvements

by Cool Mom Team | Baby, Kid Style

It’s been said that babies are a marketer’s dream – if only they could make purchases themselves. Which is why I’m quietly chuckling over the new New! onesies from new mom/pop run shop, Huddy Buddy. It’s the newness trifecta. Of course...

Baby Gifts of a Different Stripe

by Cool Mom Team | Toys + Playthings

I’m always stuck on what to get the newborn who has everything; particularly when that newborn isn’t the first to hit the household. All I know is, another package of onesies or flannel receiving blankets do not top my list. So check out the zebra-themed...

Yoga Moms Do It With Zen

by Cool Mom Team | Health, Fitness + Wellbeing

With the massive morning sickness-turned awful reflux that I’ve experienced for the last 6 months, I have gone from yoga enthusiast to…well let’s just say a deep forward bend brings with it more than limber muscles (like my breakfast, for instance)....