High Chairs: Decisions, Decisions!

The Fleurville Calla High Chair from industrial designer Yves Behar

They range from the cheap and simple (but worth it?) to the trendy and overpriced (but also worth it?). Who knew that the seat for our kids meals could engender so much agonizing decision making! 

Alas, most moms feel that the high chair they use can make a real difference in their lives. 

What high chair do you use? Are you happy with it? Do you have tips to share with other moms looking to buy their first high chair? Make your case (and share some links) in the comment section! 

What is on your baby's tush?!

What is on your baby’s tush?!

New LADYMAMA author and self-proclaimed "Granola Mom" Rivki Silver shares her

 journey navigating the tushy terrain of clothe diapers! 
(See her tutorial pictures included!)

"I am completely aware that this cloth-diapering 

business is not for the faint-hearted..."

I don’t really come off as super-crunchy.  Maybe that’s why whenever I’m diapering my baby in public I get such interesting reactions.  You see, I use cloth diapers.  That’s right.  Cloth.  As in they have to be washed.

Reactions I have gotten range from super-supportive (“Good for you!”), suspicious (“What, are you worried about global warming?”) to confessional (“You know, I used cloth diapers, too“).

Happy Mom Tips: Coupons: Friend of Foe?

Happy Mom Tips

By Rivka Caroline

Happy Mom Tip #9

COUPONS: FRIEND OF FOE? 

Here are my golden rules for using coupons effectively:

1) Only clip coupons for items you already buy. 

2) Don't waste time by dividing them into coupon holders; simply keep them in a ziploc bag.

3) Keep your coupons in your car (not on your desk!) and quickly look them through before you jump out of the car (rather than as you shop).

4) Discard expired coupons as you wait online.

Grocery Spending Stress Disorder

By Mimi Hecht

Grocery Spending Stress Disorder

On my last visit to the grocery store, I witnessed a mother at the cashier in front of me react to her receipt in a way that depicts how I presume a lot of us feel after we spend hundreds of dollars on food shopping. As she scanned the items on the long scroll, she grimaced, shook her head, rolled her eyes and, finally, after breathing a long and audible sigh, banished the receipt to the depths of her purse. Life would go on. After all, it had to - there was a long line of other shoppers also arriving at the counter for their weekly handover of hundreds of dollars in exchange for their sustenance.

I now know that I am not alone in my GSSD: Grocery-Spending-Stress-Disorder.

My Wife Needs a Vacation (COLlive.com)

This is a wonderful response from marriage counselor Daniel Schonbuch to a husband whose wife wants to vacation but they have a limited budget!

http://www.collive.com/show_news.rtx?id=10173&alias=my-wife-wants-a-vacation

Poll Results: People pay their bills!

The first thing I do with my paycheck is

Pay the bills	17 (45%)
Indulge in something I want	3 (8%)
Put some away in savings	6 (16%)
Give 10% to charity	11 (29%)

Votes so far: 37
Poll closed 

Money after Marriage

 Marraige Musings

By Russi Wachtel 

MONEY AFTER MARRIAGE

Money was never an issue for me. I either had it or I didn’t. Most of the time, I didn’t. Mostly because the money I made was the money I spent only moments later on something that I undoubtedly needed, like another dress to fit into my already crowded closet, or $30 underwear that made my tush feel like it was wrapped in pure silk. But, because I was single and living at home - the only bills being my cell-phone and gym - it was ok that I treated money like something I could play around with. Whether I had money or not didn’t really affect me; it just meant that I would have to wait one more week until I would get my next pay-check to buy whatever it is that I was eyeing at that moment. 

After getting married, money became a much bigger issue.