For Parents
Is Your House Messy in the Dark?
I came across this blog post - Clutter War: Attack of the Giant Baby - and it brings to mind a lot of our own household struggles to fight the battle of clutter. Before our baby, my wife and I had our own clutter, now we have baby clutter. Look around your house and assess your own situation.
Sometimes to really get a sense of the landscape, change your perspective and stand up on a chair and look around the room (like Robin Williams did in Seize the Day). Better yet, walk around the house at night in the dark - I recently discovered if you can tell your house is a mess in the dark, then you really have issues with clutter and too much stuff.
Face it - is this familiar in your household?
Oh my, the stuff. The baby stuff. Everywhere. Means of conveyance, swingy seat, Bumbo, squeaky toys, fuzzy toys, toys for biting and bending, jammies, jackets, socks that do and don’t look like shoes, amusing hats, blankets, books, rattles, pacifiers, cleaning supplies, extra diapers — plus of course, there’s the raw tonnage of stuff belonging to the caretaking adults that has been displaced or disused as a result of the occupying baby’s needs. It is a scene, man, I can assure you.
For me, I'm inspired to purge a lot of our stuff, and begin really asking "do we need that" before actually buying it. That's why I avoid going to BabiesRUs because I'm convinced that I don't need half the stuff in that place. But that's a whole other story.
Start your own clutter war today with Attack of the Giant Baby and It's All Too Much: An Easy Plan for Living a Richer Life with Less Stuff
May 2, 2008 in For Parents | Permalink | Comments (0)
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Custom Laser Engraved Moleskins
Who else thinks this is the coolest? Send any artwork or photo to Engrave Your Book, pick a Moleskin notebook, and you'll get back a custom laser-engraved Moleskin journal. Pre-designed Artist Series journals (selection shown below) are also available, along with volume discounts for five or more Moleskins.
My Moleskin is filled with those easily forgotten baby milestones like my daughter's first time feeding herself a Cheerio, or learning to click her tongue, or her first time sitting up.
link: Engrave Your Book
April 23, 2008 in Baby Shower Gifts, For Parents | Permalink | Comments (1)
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A T-shirt for Nerds or Parents?
If you're a computer nerd, this t-shirt design called Fugitive makes perfect sense, however, for a parent, this might have a deeper philosophical meaning.
Fugitive T-shirt | $18 at Unatee
March 28, 2008 in For Parents | Permalink | Comments (0)
Tags: parenting, tshirts
Y Water - Drink, Design & Toy
Y Water is a new vitamin-infused organic drink targeted at kids with a unique bottle designed by designer Yves Behar. The bottle also has a second life as a toy using connectors that come with each bottle to join with other bottles. Y Water comes in four flavors with unique blends called Brain, Immune, Muscle, and Bone. Available in mid-March at Whole Foods Markets and other outlets. {via LA Times]
Photo: Business Week Y Water. Why Not?
February 12, 2008 in For Parents | Permalink | Comments (1)
Tags: organic, whole foods, yves behar
Everything Your Mom Would Say
Maybe this video is old news for you. YouTube shows this video has been viewed over 5.9 million times, but I'm just seeing it now. What is it? It's comedian Anita Renfroe singing all the cliche quotes a mom will say in 24 hours put to William Tell's Overture. Hope you get a chuckle out of it like I did - even if you've seen it before. My daughter is just over 6 months old now, so it'll be a few years before I hear my wife's version.
February 6, 2008 in For Parents | Permalink | Comments (0)
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Ultimate Batman Home Theater Set-up
Your home will be the envy of all the neighborhood kids (and dads too) if you could reproduce this Batcave-themed home theater. Holy Bat Smokes!
January 20, 2008 in Decor, For Dads, For Parents | Permalink | Comments (0)
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Create and Share Online Scrapbooks
Love scrapbooking? When you create online scrapbooks at Scrapblog.com, you can instantly send and share them with your friends and family. Just like paper scrapbooking, Scrapblog provides all the elements you need to create your own online scrapbook pages - background themes, stickers, clip art, frames, and text layout tools. That's just the beginning, because with Scrapblogs tools, you can move, rotate, size these elements any way you want. Easily upload your photos to Scrapblog from your computer or from your Flickr, Webshots, Photobucket, or Facebook accounts. What's more, your pages can even come alive with video clips that you can add or link to from YouTube. Try doing that with paper!
After you're finished, the best part is that you'll be able to instantly share your Scrapblog with your friends and family as easy as emailing them.
link: Scrapblog
November 5, 2007 in Baby Stationery & Birth Announcements, For Parents | Permalink | Comments (0)
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Where to Celebrate Halloween in 28 U.S. Cities
Looking for a special Halloween event to treat the kids and yourself? Check out MSN's Halloween Events listing creepy-themed places and things-to-do from over 28 cities around the country. Austin's House of Torment, the Corn Maze at Denver's Botanical Garden, and The Darkness Haunted Warehouse attraction in St. Louis sound like winners to me.
- images from MSN City GuidesOctober 26, 2007 in For Parents, Travel | Permalink | Comments (0)
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Nina and Tom Offers The Formula for MOM
There are lots of ways to define "mom", but this is the first time I've seen it summarized as a simple straight-forward mathematical equation. Any further questions? I hope not.24.7.365=Mom T-shirt | $24 at Nina and Tom
October 15, 2007 in For Moms, For Parents | Permalink | Comments (2)
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Kids, Crocs, and Escalators = Bad Mix
It appears that Croc-wearing kids have been prone to accidents on escalators in incidents reported from around the world. Though records of specific shoe brands are not kept, increasing incidents in malls and metro stations with the soft-souled Crocs and young children are being noticed.I suspect with these reports and despite their current popularity, parents will be reconsidering including Crocs in their children's shoe wardrobe or forbid wearing them when going anywhere with an escalator.
The reports of serious injuries have all involved young children. Crocs are commonly worn by children as young as 2. The company introduced shoes in its smallest size, 4/5, this past spring.
During the past two years, so-called "shoe entrapments" in the Washington subway have gone from being relatively rare to happening four or five times a week in the summer, though none has caused serious injuries, said Dave Lacosse, who oversees the subway's 588 escalators, the most of any U.S. transit system.
Read more: Got Crocs? Be careful on the escalator [AP]
September 18, 2007 in For Parents | Permalink | Comments (0)
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