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Mom jeans are not cool. I should know, I’m a mom and I live in Berkeley where I can wear jeans to almost anything (nice dinner? client meeting? yes and yes!). I cling to the belief that the right jeans can make me look like a hot mama. “Because you’re not a woman anymore, you’re [...]

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Mom jeans are not cool. I should know, I’m a mom and I live in Berkeley where I can wear jeans to almost anything (nice dinner? client meeting? yes and yes!). I cling to the belief that the right jeans can make me look like a hot mama. “Because you’re not a woman anymore, you’re [...]

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Fellow rookie mom Becky describes some of Boston’s best bets for babies especially for the Spring and Summer: Monday — Play it Local We live near Cleveland Circle in Brighton, Massachusetts, close to Boston College, sandwiched between the towns of Newton and Brookline. One of the delights of living in Boston is that it is so [...]

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Fellow rookie mom Becky describes some of Boston’s best bets for babies especially for the Spring and Summer: Monday — Play it Local We live near Cleveland Circle in Brighton, Massachusetts, close to Boston College, sandwiched between the towns of Newton and Brookline. One of the delights of living in Boston is that it is so [...]

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Shawn Hazen is a Chicago-based designer whom I’ve never met, but I have been emailing with his wife Lisa ever since she became a rookie mom. When she told me last month that her husband and their rookie baby Finn, now three, started a t-shirt company, I developed a crush on him. I think this [...]

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Shawn Hazen is a Chicago-based designer whom I’ve never met, but I have been emailing with his wife Lisa ever since she became a rookie mom. When she told me last month that her husband and their rookie baby Finn, now three, started a t-shirt company, I developed a crush on him. I think this [...]

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photo by Wendy If you think we are over ambitious granola moms for even suggesting this idea, I totally get it. There is nothing wrong with jarred baby food. I personally found making food this way fun, so there’s that. Please just click a link to the right to find an article that better suits [...]

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photo by Wendy If you think we are over ambitious granola moms for even suggesting this idea, I totally get it. There is nothing wrong with jarred baby food. I personally found making food this way fun, so there’s that. Please just click a link to the right to find an article that better suits [...]

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Girl parents, I know: you didn’t think your little baby, so bald and androgynous for a whole year, would begin crawling, walking, then talking about princesses and demanding tutus — but it happened. Well, you just have to learn to live with it. But here’s an easy project - no sewing or glue - that [...]

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Girl parents, I know: you didn’t think your little baby, so bald and androgynous for a whole year, would begin crawling, walking, then talking about princesses and demanding tutus — but it happened. Well, you just have to learn to live with it. But here’s an easy project - no sewing or glue - that [...]

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Do you play guitar, harmonica, or the plastic comb? If you’ve got ‘em, shake your maracas. If you want to learn a new instrument, baby is a good audience. Alec decided to get a little more serious about playing guitar once Holden was born. He started taking weekly lessons and would frequently practice [...]

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Whitney and I both love Picante. But sometimes you want to go to a place that feels a little more grown-up. There are fancy restaurants with linen tablecloths and eerie, romantic silence and there are groovy, funky, cool restaurants that make you feel like an adult again while being a sensory treat for your older [...]

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Hey Chicago moms! Is our week in Chicago too touristy for you? Let us hear from you and we’ll feature your ideas next! Jeff Pfaller is the rookie dad and blogger behind 365parents.com. He published all 365 posts into this this eBook, 365 First Time Parenting Tips: Infant Edition, for other first-time parents. Jeff is also a [...]

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Tangarang: Super-cute stuff to download and print, like the gift tags in the picture (picture is hers) and party favors. 2 craft projects: make a crown for the king of your castle and reuse formula cans to make a piggy bank. How to halve a bunch of grapes at once Our most popular post, How to Make Easy [...]

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I used to see 3-year olds around town dressed in wild combinations of stripes, gingham, rainbow tights and superhero capes. I wondered when my baby would look that creative and charming.* Then it dawned on me and I began to create wild combinations and increase the creativity in my infant’s wardrobe. If your [...]

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When Julian was a baby, four years ago, we were having lunch in Beverly Hills on vacation one day, and the restaurant happened to have some Squapples - an organic squash and apple puree - on hand. I was intrigued of course, as a newly obsessed-with-all-things-baby mom. I was impressed with the food, and [...]

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This idea for a “WHILE WE WERE WAITING FOR YOU” scrapbook was excerpted (with permission) from the new book, Postcards from the Bump: A Chick’s Guide to Getting to Know the Baby in Your Belly. We like a book that has ideas of fun things for moms to do! Who says birth is a prerequisite for [...]

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This idea for a “WHILE WE WERE WAITING FOR YOU” scrapbook was excerpted (with permission) from the new book, Postcards from the Bump: A Chick’s Guide to Getting to Know the Baby in Your Belly. We like a book that has ideas of fun things for moms to do! Who says birth is a prerequisite for [...]