December 30th, 2008 — Announcements, Invites and Cards, Best of 2008, Designer Clothes, Gifts for Moms, Helpful Services, Maternity Clothes, Maternitywear That Doesn't Suck, Newborn Photography, Websites from Cool Mom Picks @ Cool Mom Picks
While we love the gifts and gear for the wee ones in our lives, we’re always on the lookout for services and support just for the hard-working parents out there.
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Online StoresContinue reading → Editors Best of 2008 - The coolest websites, services, and stuff just for moms
November 30th, 2008 — Announcements, Invites and Cards, Helpful Services from Cool Mom Picks @ Cool Mom Picks
I love receiving a birthday card in the mail, but when it’s my time
to send them out, I usually resort to a hastily typed email. Forgive
me, but taking three kids anywhere near a rack of greeting…
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November 22nd, 2008 — Helpful Services, Websites from Cool Mom Picks @ Cool Mom Picks
I think it’s been at least five years since I used an actual telephone book. With a wi-fi broadband connection to the all-knowing Internet, those old books are now only useful to me as makeshift…
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November 2nd, 2008 — Helpful Services, Reads, Websites from Cool Mom Picks @ Cool Mom Picks
I used to collect books the way other people collect whatever it is the collect, but since having kids, my book-buying budget has been re-allocated to board books, and a trip to the library means…
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October 28th, 2008 — Helpful Services, Websites, big tent, online moms groups from Cool Mom Picks @ Cool Mom Picks
I’m online all day long: On the computer in my office, on my handheld on the go. If you want me, text or email is the way to reach me, which is why I sometimes simply blink at you with…
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Continue reading → Big Tent helps parents hook up online. (Not hook up hook up…you know.)
October 26th, 2008 — Helpful Services from Cool Mom Picks @ Cool Mom Picks
I’m all for taking my daughters with me to the poll on election day and introducing them to the cornerstone of our democracy. Besides, in New York, we’ve still got the old skool voting booths, and…
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October 19th, 2008 — Art+Decor (Sounds Fancy), Helpful Services, designers call, interior design from Cool Mom Picks @ Cool Mom Picks
When it comes to interior design, let’s just say that my spirit is willing but my flesh is weak. I admire fabulous design, but possess neither the knack nor the bottomless pocketbook to bring it to…
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October 15th, 2008 — Food and Drink, Helpful Services from Cool Mom Picks @ Cool Mom Picks
About three days after I gave birth to my daughter, my friend Lisa brought over some dinner. I can still remember the exact menu: Bulgarian Stuffed Peppers, salad and a loaf of crusty bread. In…
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Continue reading → Forget the $2000 stroller. Register for homemade meals instead.
October 10th, 2008 — Helpful Services, Reads, book club kids, books, books for kids, children's books, giftlit from Cool Mom Picks @ Cool Mom Picks
Giving the gift of bibliophilia just became effortless–certainly more effortless than spelling bibliophilia. GiftLit knows that good books make great gifts, and their gift series just keep on…
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October 9th, 2008 — Art+Decor (Sounds Fancy), Helpful Services, Websites, baby room colors, nursery colors, nursery paint, nursery themes, painting the nursery from Cool Mom Picks @ Cool Mom Picks
When planning my firstborn’s nursery a few years ago, I did what many before me have done: I looked at a dozen uninspiring paint chips in muted shades of yellow, sage and ecru, and even contemplated…
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Continue reading → Colour Lovers: Saving babies from bland nurseries since 2004
October 8th, 2008 — Food and Drink, Helpful Services, Websites, family meal planning, groceries, meal planning for moms, meals, menu planning, relish from Cool Mom Picks @ Cool Mom Picks
I’ll confess: When I first saw that Relish! required a small monthly fee for their meal planning service, I was skeptical. Sure, current economics and busy schedules have put me on the weekly meal…
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Continue reading → Even busy families should relish dinnertime
October 2nd, 2008 — Causes and General Do-Gooding, Helpful Services, Reads from Cool Mom Picks @ Cool Mom Picks
Breast Cancer Awareness Month is upon us, and with it, an influx of pitches, press releases and pleas to feature any number of pink ribbon-adorned cr…um, stuff. We’re all for supporting one of the…
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Related WebsitesSeptember 22nd, 2008 — Art+Decor (Sounds Fancy), Helpful Services, Toys and Other Playthings from Cool Mom Picks @ Cool Mom Picks
Taking my kids to a paint-your-own-pottery place is not in
my job description. The drive there, the
eternity spent as my children pick out the “perfect” piece to paint, my toddler–oh my toddler– in…
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Online StoresContinue reading → Thomas Claire: Taking the Pain out of Painting Pottery
September 17th, 2008 — Helpful Services, Reads, books, bookworm baskets, gift baskets, gift baskets kids from Cool Mom Picks @ Cool Mom Picks
Like tons of practical moms like me, my favorite gift to give or to get is a book. And if you want to get fancy about it, check out Bookworm Baskets, where the great book is just the beginning of a…
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Continue reading → You’re never too little to be a bibliophile. Only to know how to spell it.
September 17th, 2008 — Baby Clothes, Bathtime, Helpful Services, Kids Clothing from Cool Mom Picks @ Cool Mom Picks
We’ve certainly seen our fair share of personalized gifts here at Cool Mom Picks, but we’ve yet to run across a service such as the one offered by Sweetwater Street. Design savvy owner Lisa Burnett…
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September 2nd, 2008 — Baby Clothes, Helpful Services, Kids Clothing, Websites from Cool Mom Picks @ Cool Mom Picks
If you want to know a little secret, we covet the amazing designer kid’s clothes that we often feature here at Cool Mom Picks just as much as you do. Our pockets aren’t as deep as we wish they were…
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Continue reading → The Mini Social - An invite-only party of the very best kind
September 2nd, 2008 — Helpful Services, Organics from Cool Mom Picks @ Cool Mom Picks
Either some people believed I actually needed twenty pink sleepers, or I got a whole lot of baby gifts that reflected the taste of the giver more than my actual needs. My favorite gifts by far were…
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Online StoresContinue reading → Eco gift baskets for new moms - Useful, cool, and did I mention useful?
August 11th, 2008 — Helpful Services from Cool Mom Picks @ Cool Mom Picks
Dream Team Baby has been rescuing sleep-deprived NYC-area parents of kids up to 2 with their excellent consultation services. They’ll come into your home and make sure you’ve got an environment…
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Continue reading → Baby Sleep Consultants? Yes. Oh God, Yes Yes Yes.
August 6th, 2008 — Food and Drink, Helpful Services from Cool Mom Picks @ Cool Mom Picks
I find that reading labels is hard enough when I’m trying to figure out which cereal has less fat, or whether sugar is hidden in yogurt using some sixteen-syllable code name. But when you’ve got a…
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August 2nd, 2008 — Helpful Services, Websites from Cool Mom Picks @ Cool Mom Picks
Once upon a time I bought a whole bunch of scrapbooking stuff. Because I was going to scrapbook, darn it. I was. I would find my hidden crafty gene and make memories in book form to cherish for a…
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July 31st, 2008 — Helpful Services from Cool Mom Picks @ Cool Mom Picks
Packing for vacation used to be a labor of love, laying out the
outfits and the shoes as I anticipated all the fun ahead. But now that
I’m a parent and the airlines limit me to 50 pounds of…
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Continue reading → A Traveling Parent’s New Very Best Friend in the World: JetSetBabies
July 28th, 2008 — Helpful Services, Kids Clothing, Mama Wear from Cool Mom Picks @ Cool Mom Picks
It seems like everywhere we look, there’s a super cool new site popping up that hosts limited-time online sample sales of designer kids clothing. Now it’s Haute Look.
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Online StoresContinue reading → Haute Looks for Kids That Moms East of Hollywood Can Afford Too
July 24th, 2008 — Helpful Services, Websites from Cool Mom Picks @ Cool Mom Picks
You know those people who have a second home and visit it every vacation? Well, that isn’t me. If
we are going to pack up our family of five and go somewhere, I need to
figure out where we’re going,…
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Continue reading → Your Very Own Family Travel Muse. No Resemblance to Sharon Stone.
July 1st, 2008 — Art+Decor (Sounds Fancy), Helpful Services, Media from Cool Mom Picks @ Cool Mom Picks
I’m all for handing my girls a box of crayons and a ream of paper and
letting them while away an afternoon creating works of art. The only
problem? Their cumulative efforts result in a…
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June 12th, 2008 — Helpful Services from Cool Mom Picks @ Cool Mom Picks
For years, “organize photos” has been at the top of my to-do list.Between piles of printed snapshots and folders chock full of digital pictures, I can never seem to make the time - meaning my piles…
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June 3rd, 2008 — CMP Admin, Helpful Services, Websites from Cool Mom Picks @ Cool Mom Picks
We’ve loved Mommy Track’d ever since we first reviewed this fantastic online resource for working moms here. And now we’re excited to be collaborating with them on their new Personal Shopper column….
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April 4th, 2008 — Announcements, Invites and Cards, Helpful Services from Cool Mom Picks @ Cool Mom Picks
I procrastinated greatly putting together my second daughter’s birth announcement, in part because I couldn’t settle on a single photo
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Continue reading → Video Birth Announcements: It’s a New World, Isn’t It
April 3rd, 2008 — Helpful Services, Misc Paper Goods from Cool Mom Picks @ Cool Mom Picks
Inspired to tackle our own mess of family photos for the benefit of the next generation, we’re counting on CatchMyMemory to help get the job done.
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Continue reading → Family Photo Sorting Help, Just In Time for Mother’s Day