The response to yesterday’s Via Toy Box giveaway was great and the winner of the Via Toy box is…MB Burns. Congratulations. We are all jealous! Thank you everyone who spread the word and entered the contest. And, don’t fret, today I’ve got a slew of great prizes to giveaway.

The first prize is, I think, […]

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Today is the first day of the Mommy Poppins week-long giveaway-a-thon. I’ve rounded up some of my favorite products and some great new discoveries to give away to readers this week. There will be awesome toys, beautiful pottery, a little something for new moms, and the ultimate dream—two weeks of meals prepared in your home […]

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There are certain products that come out that almost make me wish I had a baby again so that I could use them (A couple of minutes of thinking about a sweet baby quickly turn to the reality and I become sane again). The Kaboost portable chair booster is one of them. This cool, new, […]

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New York can be an overwhelming place. Once you have kids the overwhelmingness multiplies exponentially. This site aims to make NYC with kids more manageable, interesting and fun, but there are loads of other resources out there too. We’ve dug up some of the best books for living in NYC with kids, covering schools, activities, […]

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Kids love pets. Especially furry ones. Double especially big, furry, drool-y, ones that need to be walked and run and scooped up after several times a day and kenneled when you go on vacation and given expensive shots. Except they don’t like all that stuff so much.
And the whining and begging and pointing out of […]

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I actually just saw this cool toy storage advertised on Daddy Types and thought it was so great I had to write about it.
I don’t know about you, but I hate putting things away. I like my apartment to be neat, but I also like to everything to be out enough so that I don’t […]

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This is the perfect Valentine’s Day post because Mommy Poppins LOVES the wonderful design site, Apartment Therapy. And now they’ve created a site all about kid design called The Nursery, so we actually have an excuse to link to them here. Check it out for a daily dose of eye candy.

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After sex and money and kids the thing most couples fight about is chores. Chores. It doesn’t seem to have the emotional baggage that the others do, so what’s the deal? Apparently, it’s about respect (I read that somewhere). If the other person isn’t taking enough care about the house we share, it feels like […]

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If you’re a parent, you have too much stuff. It just goes with the territory. Toy passions come and go, but your apartment stays the same size. Time to purge. Face it, you’re never going to make bread in that breadmaker; Tamagachis are so last year; and those horrible tapered jeans from the 80s–oh no, […]

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