Mother's Day Ideas from "Cool Mom Picks" Make Shopping a Breeze

Rachael Brownell (Redsy) — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 18:02:00 GMT

Cool Mom Picks founders Kristen Chase (Motherhood Uncensored) and Liz Gumbinner (Mom101) have devised a genius method for making Mother's Day (or any other gift-giving occasion) easy, unique, and guaranteed to please the mom in your life. The Cool Mom Picks Mother's Day Guide is filled with gifts ranging from jewelry, to baby bags, to sweet mementos, to relax and renew sets for moms-to-be. These hand-crafted, non-Target gifts are great for the crafty, sentimental, environmentally conscious, jewelry-loving, and unusual mama or grandmama in your life.

Cool Mom Picks tracks down wonderfully unique gifts so you don't have to. They focus on non-mainstream, often handmade by moms, products filled with love and attention to detail. Honestly, go over and take a look. Better yet, go buy yourself something and REALLY have a great Mother's Day! Now that is what I'm talking about! Me? I'm eyeing the custom birthstone necklaces from Urban Dencity Jewelry.

New Sex Column for Moms: Mominatrix Unveiled

Rachael Brownell (Redsy) — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 18:02:00 GMT

Kristen Chase, Motherhood Uncensored, has a new column over at Imperfect Parent called "Mominatrix: No More Mrs. Nice Mom" and as you'll quickly see, if you go over and check it out, it's a hoot.

Her opening sally is a shot across the bow of traditional notions of mommies and their thoughts. In "What Lies Beneath" she ponders what really goes on in all the suburban parental bedrooms in America. Are the maternal frustrations she sees at the mall channeled into wicked goodness after dark? Swinging, perhaps?

I call this genre "Mommy Escapism" and I think it is a fabulous sign of the times. This column will most likely ruffle a few feathers (and boas?) for the same reason all the other parent writers/bloggers do, but also because of Jesus. Ever since the Virgin Birth, mothers have been de-sexualized and sanitized. Mominatrix will hopefully continue to challenge the deep-seated Virgin/Whore dualities in our culture. And while I wouldn't recommend "Why Mommy Likes S&M" books for young children, the whole concept of Mominatrix makes me feel happy and hopeful.

Strollerderby : Kristen Chase

Mother's Day Ideas from "Cool Mom Picks" Make Shopping a Breeze

New Sex Column for Moms: Mominatrix Unveiled