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6 cookbooks that every parent should own

May 16, 2012 Cool Mom Picks Books for Adults, books for moms, books for parents, cookbooks, cooking with children, Food and Drink, healthy foods, Home, recipes

Love it or hate it, if you’re a parent, you’ve got to feed your kids. Whether you already cook nightly or…not so much, but want to cook more, these staple cookbooks provide just the inspiration you need to get food on the table with a minimum of stre…

Made with love: 6 easy DIY food gifts for Mother’s Day

May 9, 2012 Cool Mom Picks candy, Coffee, food, Food and Drink, foodies, gifts for moms, Holiday Picks, Home, ice cream, Link Roundups, Mother's Day, Mother's Day gifts, recipes, Recipes We Love

Food gifts for Mother’s Day can be absolutely amazing, especially when they’re handmade with love. Add a heartfelt note, and a scribbly piece of art, and you’ve got a gift that’ll make at least this mama even more excited than a pair of Jimmy Choos.

How does your garden grow? With SeedBallz

May 9, 2012 Cool Mom Picks Doodads and Random Bits of Coolness, Food and Drink, gardening, gardening with kids, Getting crafty, Home, socially conscious, Toys and Other Playthings, ways to help

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 SeedBallz.

If you can read this, make sure you thank a teacher this week

May 8, 2012 Cool Mom Picks Food and Drink, Free or close to it, Home, Misc Paper Goods, teacher gifts

Though we sooooo appreciate our kids’ teachers every day of the school year, we make a special effort to thank those special ones during Teacher Appreciation Week, which happens to be right now.

Easy retro cupcakes for modern parties

May 6, 2012 Cool Mom Picks At the Table, baking, cupcakes, Food and Drink, Home, party decorations, Party Time!

Everybody loves cupcakes, but decorating them can be majorly intimidating. You can always outsource, of course, but spending a fortune at a fancy bakery for a kid’s birthday isn’t very appetizing either.

Hot Chili Pops are sugar and spice and all things nice

May 5, 2012 Cool Mom Picks candy, Food and Drink, gourmet, Home, organic food, Organics, Party Time!

Even on Cinco de Mayo, Hot-chili lollipops sound like one of those joke candies I never want anywhere near my mouth, like those worm-in-the-lollipop “treats” sold in every gift store in Texas.

6 cool picnic essentials for a Mother’s Day in the park

May 3, 2012 Cool Mom Picks Food and Drink, Holiday Picks, Home, Mother's Day, picnic essentials, picnic recipes, Recipes We Love

Mother’s Day is one of my favorite holidays and not just because my boys spoil me silly with kisses. It hits at the best time of year when the weather turns warm, the flowers bloom and the farmer’s market begins showing signs of bounty. If your mama is…

Boon + Plum Organics = Baby food pouch organizational zen

April 27, 2012 Cool Mom Picks baby food, baby gear, Doodads and Random Bits of Coolness, Food and Drink, Home, organic, Organics, organization, storage

We’re all big fans of Plum Organics baby foods in my house, which we pack as snacks for the whole family all the time. But I’ve yet to figure out a good way to organize them, except other than toss them in a plastic bowl in my pantry. Turns out, they’v…

7 Great Mothers Day brunch recipes–even for those too busy to make Mothers Day brunch

April 25, 2012 Cool Mom Picks cooking, drinks, food, Food and Drink, foodies, Holiday Picks, Home, Mother's Day, recipes, Recipes We Love

Mothers Day brunch is one of my favorite traditions. However ever since having kids, Mother’s Day poses a conundrum. I want it to be my day, which means not doing anything for anybody, but I also want to treat my own mama, and that requires some effort…

Earth day pick – Neat-os reusable snack bags

April 22, 2012 Cool Mom Picks Backpacks, Lunchboxes + Bags for Kids, Earth Day, Food and Drink, Home, Neat-os bags, plastic bags, reusable snack bags

Of all the ways my family has gone a little greener, perhaps the easiest has been ditching plastic bags for reusable bags. And since discovering this new brand, we’re almost completely plastic bag free when it comes to snack time and school lunches.

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