Green cleaning products are better for the environment and safer for your children, but many moms still prefer traditional (and toxic) cleaning products for two major reasons: cost and convenience. Unless you wanted to order cleaning products online or had a Whole Foods-type store in your area, it used be hard to find good natural […]
Cool and Reusable Lunch Bags
Instead of buying pack after pack of brown paper lunch bags, consider a reusable lunch bag for back to school. Reusable lunch bags, like Cool Tote Lunch Sacks ($17), are better than brown bagging it. Food stays fresher, lunch doesn’t leak through, and they are good for the environment and your budget. My daughter’s tot-chic […]
Tips for Packing Healthy School Lunches
Packing healthy school lunches can be a challenge. While you can send your kids to school with a brown bag lunch full of healthy snacks, how can you be sure they’ll actually eat them? Here are a few tips for packing healthy school lunches kids will actually eat: 1) Ask your child to help. Involving your kids […]
Keep Crayons and Art Supplies Organized with Doodlebugz
My daughter enjoys drawing, carrying her things in bags, organizing her toys (must have gotten that from Daddy). Doodlebugz offers Crayon Keepers, DoodleBags, Crayon Aprons and Toolbelts, and Crayon Purses and Duffle Bags that allow her to do all three. These licensed Crayola products, available at Princess Linens, allow your little artist to keep supplies […]
A Perfect Scents Way to Scent Your Home Safely
Each year thousands of homes are damaged or destroyed by burning candles. I love the fragrance of burning candles but not the safety risk to my home and to my child. Mama Mwah’s cousin, a working mom with three children looking for a way to supplement her income, recently started selling Scentsy Products. I attended a demonstration party […]
How to Organize Your Child’s Games
My mother still has an entire closet of boardgames. My brother and I spent many happy hours playing them during our childhood, and she’s been saving them for grandchildren. Now that Baby Mwah has arrived, she wants to reclaim her closet space and has given me a deadline for moving the games. Unfortunately, those flimsy cardboard […]
Tame The Wild Animals Cluttering Your Child’s Room
Stuffed animals are cute and cuddly. But all of those plush bears are total space hogs. Baby Mwah started off with just one stuffed bunny, but the animals have multiplied as fast as real bunnies since well-meaning relatives (and sometimes even his mommy) can’t resist buying them. Unless you have a baby too young to […]
Mocktails for Modern Mamas
When you have children, you make certain sacrifices. And of course when you look into those smiling faces, it is all worthwhile. But when you watch others sipping cosmos at a cocktail party or mint julips on Derby Day, perhaps you feel the slightest bit jealous? And very thirsty…parched even? When I was pregnant with […]
Art Studio on the Go
One of the biggest challenges in traveling with children is keeping them occupied between stops. Time will fly by for your little artist with The Car Valet by Alex ($28 at Little Jet Set) and he can keep an illustrated journal to have a fun, personal record of the trip, too. This adorable, easy to […]
Mamanista Home Organization Guide: Cleaning Tips, Our Favorite Storage Products and More
Perhaps you were a neatnik before baby. Or maybe you were always a little messy. Whatever your temperament, you probably find the idea of getting organized daunting…..maybe even absurd. After all…you haven’t had a good night’s sleep in months (maybe years). So how are you going to find the time to clean the clutter? My […]
