Cool Mom Picks From July 2008
A Traveling Parent's New Very Best Friend in the World: JetSetBabies
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 baggage to boot,
packing can be a nightmare.
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Wicked Whoopies: No Seriously, It's Totally G-Rated.
The average American school year is 180 days long, which translates to a whole lot of lunches to pack. It'd
only be a number of days before I was sending my kids off to the bus stop
with a can of tuna, a can opener and a note saying, "please don't hurt
yourself with this".
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Keep On Rockin' the Summer Shoes
I realize that back-to-school is knocking on my door, but considering it stays warm and sunny in our neck of the woods until early October, I'm not sure my daughter will be sporting the brown eather Mary Janes on August 11.
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Bao Bei Active: Rekindling Every Pregnant Mom's Love for Yoga Pants
While I've clearly arrived at the "Yoga Pants and Gauchos" trimester in my pregnancy, I'm not ready to give up on my style just because even my roomiest maternity clothes are suddenly very uncomfortable.
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Preschoolers in the Hood
It seems like hooded towels only come adorned with zoo animals and licensed characters, and considering my daughter isn't into monkeys anymore and I'm not so into Dora, our options are pretty limited.
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Computer Games That Care and Cure
My daughter is already a bit obsessed with computer games and she's only four. I'm afraid to think about what will happen when she hits the tween years and can do more than just move the mouse around.
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A Pocket Full of Posies
When your daughter is begging to stick 6,000 glittery clips in her hair, sometimes the plain old barrette doesn't cut it. So I've come up with this motto: "All bling in moderation unless you are Carmen Electra." And even then I can't say it's the greatest choice.
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An ABC Book for Minimalists, Modernists, and Just Regular Kids Who Love Animals
Not all of us can afford to hang real pieces of art in our
toddlers' rooms, or spend hours strolling with them through museums
gazing at the works of masters. Fortunately, for less than $15, we can all afford to share this little gem from American Modernist Charley Harper
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One Way to Get Out of Painting the Nursery: Wallpapers
We don't come across too many wallpaper options for nurseries, or at least ones that we'd feel comfortable recommending. With all due respect Peter Rabbit, I love you, but I don't need a repeating pattern of 60,000 of you that my baby will outgrow before the decade is out.
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The Blue Bird of Barrette Organization Happiness
Being that my daughter was a little baldie for a very long time, imagine my excitement when she became obsessed with hair clips. Especially because I am not the type to stick barrettes on a bald scalp with Karo syrup.
My enthusiasm was quickly dashed when I realized that keeping track of her hair clips so that we didn't lose them (or worse, her brother didn't eat them) was a nightmare.
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High Chairs of the Rich and Totally Lucky
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 food and milk-soaked Cheerios from? I think of it more as a necessary evil.
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