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Oliver and Leo's Colorful Bedroom

November 16, 2011

I just posted a Before & After of Oliver and Leo’s bed­room over on AmiExpat.com.  We recently bought a house in Ger­many and I’ve been con­sumed with ren­o­vat­ing and dec­o­rat­ing over the last year. In the room, I’m proud­est of the mag­netic chalk­board wall.  It was four days of work, but very worth it.  The kids […]

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HABA Toy Food

February 12, 2009

I’ve always loved toy shop­ping, even before I had a child. Choos­ing gifts for nieces and nephews and think­ing about what I would have loved (or what I DID love) at their ages gave me a thrill. And I know wasn’t the only adult wish­ing I could spend an after­noon play­ing with that Bar­bie Corvette […]

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Product Review - Epi-no Childbirth Trainer

January 28, 2009

I first head about the Epi-no (pro­duced by Stard­berg Med­ical) dur­ing one of my birthing classes.  The mid­wife showed it to the group, and most of the women in the class dis­missed as an unnec­es­sary expense.  I, on the other hand, was fas­ci­nated! The ‘child­birth trainer’ is basi­cally a vagi­nal dila­tor.  An inflat­able bal­loon is […]

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Booster Seat Giveaway Winner

January 20, 2009

Con­grat­u­la­tions to Mary, com­menter #4 in the Mutsy Grow-Up! give­away. She was our big win­ner, and the cool, mod­ern booster seat is on its way to her and her grow­ing daugh­ter. Thanks to every­one who linked and commented.

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New Mom Product Review

December 19, 2008

I thought I would share a few of the prod­ucts that I have found very help­ful in the first three months of moth­er­hood. There are three basic cat­e­gories — Hoppediz, dia­pers and boobs. I’m sure many more will pop up. What have been the most use­ful prod­ucts for all you new moms and dads out there? […]

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Save Handmade

December 15, 2008

We love hand­made kids’ stuff, like one-of-a-kind cloth­ing from Etsy and hand­crafted wood toys made in small batches by arti­sans. But the recently-passed Amer­i­can Con­sumer Prod­ucts Safety Act could put many of our favorite U.S. hand­crafters out of busi­ness. We’re all about safety, but this par­tic­u­lar piece of leg­is­la­tion seems to hurt the man­u­fac­tur­ers we […]

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Another great baby carrier

November 18, 2008

I use the Baby-Tragetuecher from Hoppediz for our girl. I also have a Mai Tai, but she is still a bit small for it (or at least, I haven’t yet made it work for her). The Hoppediz car­rier is some­thing I had seen a few times on the street in our town in Ger­man, and […]

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My Favorite Books for New Moms

August 13, 2008

The Girl­friends’ Guide to Baby Gear by Vicki Iovine and Peg Rosen I liked the common-sense approach to prod­uct reviews in this book, along with use­ful shop­ping lists and rec­om­men­da­tions. While not purely a bargain-hunters’ bible (for that, try Baby Bar­gains), this book still gives good advice about what you need, what you don’t need, what’s […]

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