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iPhone apps to edutain your preschooler

November 2, 2009

Irony alert: I don’t let my kids play video games and I limit their TV screen time, but I’m usually willing to hand over my iPhone to pass the time. I realized that I was a huge hypocrite on a recent flight from San Francisco to Cleveland when we let Holden (now 4) watch the [...]

Getting to 50/50 book review

October 10, 2009

Getting to 50/50 is very well-researched and chock full of data. In fact, if you were committed to the SAHM-life before reading it, beware, this book might have you throwing out your diaper bag for a laptop bag. I originally posed the question, “are you already at 50/50?” a few weeks ago. Here’s my nitty [...]

Stuff people send us plus a whole lot of things we just love and can’t help but recommend.

Toy Story double feature is not for little kids, ok?

October 4, 2009

Let me start out by saying in no uncertain terms that I love the Toy Story movies!! Just so we’re clear. I enjoyed them in the theater back in the day. And I recently screened a DVD at home for my two- and four-year old boys with great success for family movie night. My big [...]

Maclaren goes wheel-free and organic

September 9, 2009

Two of the coolest chicks I met at BlogHer this year were Erin and Rachael from TodaysMama.com. So when Rachael asked if I would take a look at some new baby and mama products from Maclaren, I just wanted to say yes, simply because I like Rachael. Also, I have had the same Maclaren stroller [...]

Stuff people send us plus a whole lot of things we just love and can’t help but recommend.

If You Give a Mom a Martini… book review

August 23, 2009

I’m not so much a martini mom, but the subtitle of this book should give you a pretty good idea why I thought I’d like it: “100 ways to find 10 blissful minutes for yourself” — that’s pretty fantastic! And pretty close to our own philosophy of helping rookie moms survive the first year(s) of [...]

Testing the heck out of this camera: Olympus Stylus TOUGH

August 16, 2009

When I saw one of the youtube ads for this indestructible Olympus camera a few months ago I thought, “yeah right” and by that I mean “no flipping way.” This is the ad I saw: Maybe Olympus could get adorable preschool-like actors to put the camera through its paces on a gentle rubberized-mat surface, but [...]

Stuff people send us plus a whole lot of things we just love and can’t help but recommend.

Baby Fat Book review

August 9, 2009

We, Rookie Moms, tread lightly in the area of diet and exercise. We believe a new mom has enough adjustments and to-dos without also worrying about losing that last ten pounds. That said, our regular readers might also know that when Milo turned two and people were still asking me when the baby was due, [...]

One dreamy appliance: Breville Smart Oven

August 8, 2009

Why am I talking about a toaster oven on Rookie Moms? Because I love it THAT much. I’ll admit that I’m in that first stage of infatuation where it can do no wrong. Burnt my finger a little, I forgive it. I put the crumb door in upside-down, I forgive myself. My husband, on the [...]

Stuff people send us plus a whole lot of things we just love and can’t help but recommend.

Smoothing out the floppy skin of post-pregnancy: Yummie Tummie

August 2, 2009

When Stefania asked if she could give me some underwear and take some pictures of me in it, I said “hell yeah” because sometimes I like to answer first and think later. When I read the fine print and saw that she was going to send me two Yummie Tummie shapewear body-hugging tank tops to [...]

Loving my Nintendo ds pedometer nugget

July 18, 2009

It’s official name is “Nintendo ds Personal Trainer: Walking” but I call it my nugget. First of all, Whitney got me into pedometers. We share a love of counting that actually turned into this very site you’re reading right now. If we didn’t like to count steps, ounces of milk pumped, or activities that are [...]

Stuff people send us plus a whole lot of things we just love and can’t help but recommend.

Predator-proofing is a little trickier than babyproofing

May 15, 2009

It’s quite easy, and surprisingly instinctual, to yell “Get down from there! You’ll break your neck!” to the spirited child out who is balancing on one foot on the back of your couch. It’s not quite as easy to say, “Don’t talk to that guy from the blue house. He gives me the creeps.” Especially [...]

Eggs, a dozen things to love

April 18, 2009

There are many areas in which Whitney and I agree… this site is mostly a fabulous collaborative effort of mutuality. Should moms have more fun with their babies? Yes! Should moms get nights off from their babies on a regular basis? Hell yeah! And on and on. But there are areas in which we disagree: [...]

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