With three girls in my house, I've got an awful lot of hair to brush and style, and with the holidays almost here , I've been wanting to change up from the usual hairband. It's true you'll find no shortage of YouTube hair tutorials, but …
Are you as obsessed with Pinterest as we are? Follow us ! Then check out these 5 Thanksgiving Pinterest pins, plus lots more from our site and around the web. 1. If you're heading out of town for Thanksgiving, you need this hilarious tot…
Let me first be totally upfront: The idea of setting a holiday table kind of terrifies me. I am not someone who can just effortlessly whip up an Elsa's castle centerpiece made of handmade gingerbread, or pick up a calligraphy pen and go …
There’s nothing quite like seeing your child pick up a book and read it to himself for the first time. And even though we've been known to tell our kids to putdownthatbookrightnow! when we're trying to get them out the door for school, w…
A baby's first holiday has to be one of the best parts of parenting. It might even make up for all those sleepless nights and dirty diaper changes. Maybe. But we also know the holidays can be overwhelming on their own, and adding baby in…
This is a sponsored message from Aquaphor Healing Ointment. Busy parents can always appreciate products that do double duty , but when it's got more uses than you have fingers to count on -- especially if it's something you might already…
With my daughter finally ( finally! ) deciding on going trick-or-treating as Iris, the Goddess of the Rainbow , we've been trying out different temporary hair color options to figure out what makes sense for her. Especially on her dark b…
My kids came home this week excitedly telling me they could hand out something in school to their classmates for Halloween, provided it was gluten-free. So I started perusing the candy aisle before I thought...wait a minute! I'm supposed…
Neither of us ever went on a babymoon or even looked at all the gorgeous, luxury babymoon destinations out there. It seemed silly at the time. It seemed indulgent. And yo, we were too busy on message boards asking about lamaze breathing …
As much as we'd like to say we always remember to send holiday cards to everyone we know and love, well, that's a bit of a stretch. Mostly because we're all swamped with holiday shopping and to-do lists and teacher gifts , and and and...…
As moms ourselves, we completely understand the importance of tummy time--we've been through it oh, a half-dozen times between all of our kids. We also remember how stressful it was at first, because you're always hearing how important i…
I basically consider myself a liquid eyeliner beginner. I dabbled with it years ago then walked away as I exited my twenties. But after years of fearing look like a toddler with a shaky hand took a black Sharpie to my eyelids, I've final…
One of the biggest questions we see around the web is when to replace makeup. And I totally get it. I have a drawer full of makeup--like that cool auburn eyeliner that I might wear some day, or a pale pink lip gloss that was awesome over…
Obsessed with Pinterest as we are? Follow us ! Then find cool pins every day from our site and beyond. 1. We are so crushing over this chic fall look . 2. Could this free printable be the school morning lifesaver we're looking for? 3. If…
Summer may be winding down, but that doesn't mean kids will be hanging up their scooters anytime soon. In some neighborhoods, we're even scooting to school and hopefully safely. Our partner Micro Kickboard (we love them so much!) is a br…
It's back to school time and we would love to go on and on about how structured and peaceful the morning routine is in our homes, what with getting the kids ready, making a healthy breakfast, packing the perfect lunches, signing permissi…
We are so blown away by some of the creative birth announcement photo ideas we've seen on Pinterest and beyond lately. Is it a new trend or just something that's now in the hands of more regular photographers than the pros? Either way...…
Having lived through hundreds of road trips with dozens of children between us all, we're no strangers to the joys (ahem) of keeping your child's car seat clean. Or at least, attempting to. So on behalf or our newest sponsor, Evenflo , m…
We can't tell you how many questions we get here at Cool Mom Picks asking us for helpful travel tips for traveling with kids, so I was pretty thrilled when Citi asked me to put together my favorite travel tips together in a video series.…
Who knew July was Family Reunion Month? Actually uh, we didn't. But now we do. And with so many families headed out for vacations this summer, it's not really a surprise. But oof, planning a big reunion can be a huge undertaking, which i…
With summer officially here and schools pretty much out almost everywhere, many families (like ours) are getting ready for summer travel and trying to figure out how to eat healthy on the road. With a fair share of road and plane trips u…
Of course I'm already to the joys of waterproof mascara in the summer, as we all are by now no doubt. But when the kind woman at the Laura Mercier counter pointed me toward their waterproof eyeliner I was like...wha-ah? For some reason, …
I don't have a beach trip planned this summer, but I really wish I did. There's something about the smell of the salt water that makes me feel so relaxed--or maybe it's the margaritas on the sand. I recently discovered Love + Salt hair a…
With Father's Day coming up, we know a lot of you are considering fancying up the shaving collection of the menfolk in your lives. So we're thrilled to be teaming up with our newest sponsor, Dollar Shave Club , who if you don't know, is …