The sad news is that CMP favorite Polarn O. Pyret is discontinuing the maternity and nursing items from their MAMA Collection. The good news? The entire stock has just gone on crazy sale. Save 70% off maternity and nursing wear now while…
Confession: I've never totally understood the stuffed-animals-that-turn-into-blankets thing. Pulling a blankie out of a stuffed animal's middle always seemed kind of... weird. Of course, it's not up to me--kids seem to love them. And luc…
If there are three things I was sure would never happen in my life, it would be: 1) writing the word "SeedBallz"; 2) knowing what to do with something called SeedBallz; 3) having kids who would fall in love with something called SeedBall…
In our household, dealing with kids' flus and colds is a sticky process. I mean this literally: we are usually well-doused in prescribed medicine before any of it actually ends up inside the child. It's not necessarily that the kids don'…
I'm on a mission to find a birthday present for one of the smartest, sweetest, most wonderful little guys I know. That's never an easy task. But Creative Kidstuff has made the process much simpler with a special new section on its websit…
You should see my car--or actually, you shouldn't. It's filled to the brim with my daughter's preschool artwork, which gets hastily shoved onto the passenger seat during the always-harried pickup time. It's a mountain of artwork, really,…
Ever since my penpal days (I had 31 of them! At the same time!), I've loved personalized stamps. I was a preteen, so they were of the unicorn-and-rainbow variety--oh, and penguins. I had way too many penguin stamps. My tastes--and time--…
I have a recurring fantasy these days: it involves the beach, gentle waves, a good book , a nap... and something amazing for the kids to do while all of the above takes place. So I'm about two seconds away from booking this vacation. [do…
You know, it's ironic. I'm on the precipice of moving my baby into his first big-boy bed (sniffle), meaning big boy sheets, and it's only now that I've found all the most adorable organic nursery bedding for the perfect nursery. Smiling …
We absolutely hate watching one of our favorite boutiques go... especially when it's a sweet shop like Apricot Culotte . The one good thing about it is their closeout sale. We said je t'aime to Apricot Culotte when we fell in love with i…
We have reached the maximum level of licensed- character and logo tees in our household. Granted, the number is not all that high--our kids are lots of things, but "miniature billboards" doesn't exactly top the list--but still. We are at…
When I lived in New York City, pre-kids, I always imagined that I'd someday stroll the streets with my theoretical future babies. We'd meet other mini-Manhattanites in Riverside Park, hit Mister Softee for a cone, head downtown to the So…
Our new house has lots of windows, with lots of brand-new window blinds. That means lots of window blind cords -- and, to parents, those are serious business. That stats about kids strangled by the cords each month are pretty disturbing.…
The minds behind Yo Gabba Gabba! are not content to settle with one successful kids show. In fact, they have just hooked themselves a certain daughter I know with a brand-new show--and some truly awesome rock music. And I'm betting a lot…
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 t…
It's bittersweet when we see a mom-owned boutique that we love, close up shop. What Every Baby Needs , say it ain't so! But if there's an upside, it's the amazing discounts. You can now score 50% off everything on the site and up to 80% …
I believe in the essential power of reading--my kids have the stuffed bookcases to prove it. But not every kid does. So I love the idea of this website that lets you buy an amazingly cute, supersoft, combed-cotton T-shirt to get more boo…
My kids inherited a rocking horse that's all bells and whistles--it whinnies, neighs, clip-clops, and plays some sort of country song. I'm pretty sure it says "yeehaw," too, which doesn't really make sense. It's too much, even for them. …
All week long we're offering our tips and ideas to help you tackle your (and our) New Year's resolutions. Whether you're a staunch believer in resolutions or not, we hope our cool picks will help motivate you as we hope they do for us! L…
Okay, Cool Mom Picks is a safe space where I feel like I can admit this freely: I'm starting to panic a little. The gift-purchasing isn't going as planned. I keep seeing all these amazingly fabulous personalized gifts--that I should have…
I admit it: I'm a fan of pretty much every one of those daily-deals sites. Hand me an exclusive membership to sweet deals on designer merch and I get a little thrill. And this new site totally supersizes that thrill in the coolest way po…
I never mean to, but I occasionally have a weird mind slip and underestimate the power of simplicity. When a package arrived in the mail from Gween , bearing six pieces of pretty, shiny wood meant to put together into a windmill shape, I…
Kid (and baby) sunglasses are usually one of those things that are terribly cute in theory but not always so great in practice. They're often slippy, stomped, and broken within, like, minutes . So these new sunglasses for kids are worth …
Now that Hanna Andersson has a whole new line of their wonderful, parent-approved pajamas, in new prints from one of our favorite designers, it's like that magic that happens when two things we love come together. You know, like when whe…
