Budgeting iPad apps? Reader Q&A

by Cool Mom Team | Best Apps

Although I am enjoying my iPad I miss some of the things my laptop offered, like excel for budgeting.  Do you have any budgeting app suggestions? – Steff What? You mean iPads aren’t just for games? I seem to forget that since my kids can’t stop...

The ultimate must-have power strip for parents

by Jeana | Uncategorized

Most parents would agree that with each progressive child that enters a family, parenting gets a little more lax. (Watch as the three second rule becomes the 20 second rule.) The one area that has remained unchanged in our household, though, is child safety. I may not...

5 of our favorite designer sale site apps

by Jeana | Uncategorized

Ever tried to go clothes shopping for yourself with kid(s) in tow? Between toting a toddler while carrying unwieldy hangers, and then attempting to catch a mannequin in mid-air because your little one has pulled its skirt down therefore making it fall over (yes, it...

Cocoon Grid-it: Transforming you into an organizational butterfly

by Kristen Chase | Uncategorized

I’m one of those moms who could reallllly use one of those purse organizers and would get one then never actually use it; mostly because they contain a set number of pockets of specific sizes, which just doesn’t fly for this free spirit. (That’s code...

It’s a big TeuxDeux

by Cool Mom Team | Websites We Love

Between after-school activities, weekend soccer games, getting Caleb a birthday present for his party on Saturday, flu shot appointments, sending in the permission slip for the field trip, and, uh, you get the gist, it’s a wonder I don’t leave my house...

Here’s how to get to inbox zero. You can do it!

by Liz Gumbinner | Tips and Tricks

I have more problems managing my inbox flow than you can imagine. Seriously, you don’t want to know how old some of the emails in my inbox are. (Okay, 4 years. Just in Gmail. My other account goes back to 2002.) So after much urging by kindred spirits on...

The Echo Livescribe Smartpen digitizes your notes, no typing required

by Cool Mom Team | Tech Toys

No matter how many gadgets with keyboards are available, we kind of hope that actual writing never goes away. Kids still take notes at school and parents write notes at home or work. However if you don’t transcribe your notes to a computer, or organize them all...