I love shopping for clothes . But what I really, really love is shopping for clothes and getting a great deal. That's why finding out about this private fashion deal site set off my Pavlovian response--just subtract the drool. Oh, who am…
My daughter is in the beautiful beginning stages of tree-climbing, which has left her with the usual variety of not-at-all-serious scrapes and bruises. I think she loves finding a new boo-boo to cover up with a Band-Aid as much as she lo…
When I was six months pregnant with my second baby, the company I worked for was putting on a big, fancy shindig. Said shindig required me to go on a stage and speak in front of 800 people. I started to stress--mostly about what to wear.…
I didn't have kids yet when I lived in New York, but if I did--or should we ever happen to move back (could happen!)--I'd need some help getting it all together. A toddler bed to fit in a Manhattan apartment? Recommendations for a fabulo…
I don't know about you, but these days, my inbox is totally overwhelmed with messages from good-deal sites . Don't get me wrong, they're all awesome deals--I'm glad I signed up for all of them, and wish I could nab every bargain. But for…
At the end of the day--and there really is an end of the day, when baby has no choice but to conk out, at least for a little while, anyway--all you really need is a good, sturdy crib so that your little one is safe and snug, right? Well,…
As someone who has a soft spot for peanut butter (a combination of words that is almost impossible to say when you're actually eating it), we always have a jar sitting around somewhere. But the more peanuts are disappearing from schools,…
So my daughter has just embraced the wonderful world of dinosaurs-- beyond Barney. This is a huge milestone. Huge. To encourage her newfound love of the stegosaurus and the parasaurolophus and all non-purple dinosaurs, we've forgone plas…
The 1937 book, Mr. Popper's Penguins , figured into my early years. Chances are that you (and your kids) know and love the book, too--it's a classic. So when I learned it was going to turned into the movie Mr. Popper's Penguins starring …
We're just a few days into summer vacation and it's already mud season. Not the kind of mud that's made by Mother Nature. This stuff is kid-made, by way of a wading pool, a trusty hose, and a patch of mud-ready dirt. It's given me the pe…
Right now, our bathtub is like another toy chest and ohmygod do I wish I was exaggerating about this. Random pots and Tupperware purloined from the kitchen, squeezie orcas and penguins, and bottles of bubble bath (which ceased actually c…
I love finding baby clothes that provide an antidote to the whole babies wear black thing . I mean look, if you can't wear turquoise, pink and tangerine when you're two, when can you? (Okay, maybe when you're 70 and retiring in Palm Beac…
Is there anything as sweet as comforting your kid after a scrape with a smooch, a kind word, and... bandages with pictures of bloody eyeballs, dismembered fingers, and centipedes crawling out of skin? CMP covered the original Scabs Banda…
Let's be real: a lot of old-school nursery rhymes need some updating. Have you ever really listened to "Billy Boy?" (Hey, guy, she is a young thing and cannot leave her mother. Back off!) The world is simply a different place than when M…
We have a bunch of special occasions coming up--Father's Day, our favorite sitter's graduation, the grandparents' anniversary. My eyes have been open to some especially special occasion clothes for the kids. You know--something fancy. Wi…
I'm always on the lookout for ways to actually use the 15,640 baby and kid photos stored on my laptop. And after Mother's Day last week, you probably added a few more. I mean, I make sure to email them on to the respective grandparents a…
We joke a lot about how our kids sometimes would rather play with the box a present comes in than the actual present. The thing is... it's not always a joke. And one company has taken that idea on, big time. Blue Manatee Boxes are amazin…
It's true that we moms spend most of our time giving-- time, love, presents . And while Mother's Day is all about our kids thanking us for that giving, the tragic fact is that there are some mothers who never get the chance to give to th…
It's one of those rare faults of nature that moms don't sprout a few extra arms after they have a baby. Even simple walks get tricky when you have only two hands: you have to push a stroller, shoulder your purse, hang onto a shopping bag…
My 4-year-old-any-second-now daughter is at the age where she's learned there's more to the world than just home, store, and school. She's asking about the places she can visit after a plane ride or two, and while most of them involve th…
If your little guy is anything like mine, his wardrobe is stocked with a lot of the standard-issue dude-themed clothes: frogs, trucks, monkeys. You know. So I thought this new idea for a mini-man's dresser was especially brilliant. In fa…
I'm in a period of mega-emotion when it comes to the idea that my almost 4-year-old and about-to-be-1-year-old are past the wee little onesies. Every weekend, I sit down with a pile of old clothes from the garage--which is rapidly turnin…
Around Easter, little girls' outfits at the boutiques can start looking a bit fancy-pantsy. Patent leather and pressed ruffles are all well and good, but the baby girls I know have usually preferred something a bit softer. And sassier. H…
I have a lot of words for our current putting-of-the-kids-to-sleep experience. With a bed-jumping preschooler and a bedtime-book-ripping baby, "magical" is not one of them. Or at least it hasn't been. But maybe that'll change with the ri…
