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i always thought that i would never want to stay home when i became a mom. wait--i never even thought that i would be a mom or married! but here i am, married, and mother to an 8 month old boy. i r...

seriously? these lists are pretty intense. we use a dresser with a changing pad on top. use the top drawer for diapers, creams etc. (we use burts bees butt cream and have never had a ...

thanks everyone! right now we have been using the cap to a bottle the same shape as a shot glass. he totally prefers big people cups. thanks for all of your help! sara, thor and...

we had the first years cosleeper and found it weird to use. we actually had gotten a boppy lounger as a gift. we swaddled our baby for the first three months when he was sleeping because he was sup...

bad idea. we have similar ones from design within reach and they are floppy and all the recycling falls out!

a good idea is to keep a container of certain toys hanging over the side of the childs bed or just in the childs room. this way if your child wants to play with those toys, they know that means tha...

where did you get that blanket hanging over the crib?

i found a really awesome piggy bank on etsy and filled it with pennies for weight. you can seal off the hole so that pennies dont get consumed or fill it with something else.

my sister got us that lamp from crate and barrel as a wedding gift. we ended up using it in the nursery instead.

hmm..i think that the camera is making the walls look dingy? they are very white. being apartment renters we have to deal with the wood paneling which we painted white.

also, to comment on dollhouse...we use the wooden utensils at our lakehouse (which has no running water or electricity) because they are biodegradable and we can put them in the compost heap..they ...

from Apartment Therapy - Save the Trees? on August 16, 2007 01:01PM

my husband and i ordered a marimekko wall hanging with the hardware to hang the fabric. the packaging was insanely overdone. it had at the very least 4x the amount of cardboard that would actually ...

from Apartment Therapy - Save the Trees? on August 16, 2007 01:00PM

brio makes awesome sets. we also saw some at ikea this weekend that were the same style!

from Good Questions: Wooden Train Sets on July 16, 2007 11:56AM

call 311. most likely the landlord has to pay for the exterminator.

from Bedbugs Take Manhattan #5 on June 19, 2007 03:58PM

my husband and i have these metal radiators that are lower and dont look like that. we are really worried about the baby burning himself, we also wondered if that was the responsibility of the lan...

my husband and i were torn over disposable and cloth. cloth actually use a lot of water and chemicals when being cleaned. of course disposable to us was even worse. we came across this awesome site...

from Good Questions: Cloth Diapers on June 4, 2007 11:29AM

I think that a tiny dot pattern would be really nice? Is the pear pattern for the bumper?

this is the worst cutting board we have ever owned. it warped within two days.

from Lamplig Chopping Board by Ikea on April 13, 2007 05:54PM