Gabrielle Blair is a very cool mom/writer/art director and designer. And a mother of five. In her spare time, Gabrielle writes a fantastic blog called DESIGN MOM.
I love Design Mom and I feel 10 times hipper by just reading the blog. Gabrielle has posted some great ideas that would be perfect for Mother's Day.

Mother-in-Law Gifts
Mother-in-Law gifts can be tricky. Design Mom gives several innovative ideas for honoring your husband's mom in a way that will make her feel special.

Gifts Any Mom Will Love
Good stuff for mom can be found all over the blog but click here for tons of ideas for mom (that would be YOU). Here's a preview of my favorite picks:

The Fleur Collection by Sunset Road
In case my husband is reading this post, you can just quit shoping and BUY THIS. This collection

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April Showers bring May Flowers...and then it's time for graduation gifts! I love to give books as graduation gifts because most of the grads are overflowing with pens and other "official" graduation presents. The book titles below are the books I keep on my shelf AND I keep an extra copy handy for graduation gifts.

Fabulous Gifts: Hollywood's Gift Guru Reveals the Secret to Giving the Perfect Present
I. Love. This. Book. … Read More

I am the coolest mother EVER because I purchased my daughter some FRIENDSHIP Shoes. Friendship Shoes are the new shoe that Payless created with 100% of the net profits going to the Fresh Air Fund.

Share a little friendship this summer with The Friendship Shoe to benefit The Fresh Air Fund. The shoe comes with a marker kit to design and decorate any way you like! Payless will donate 100% of the net profits from the sale of The Friendship… Read More

Fundraising is a fact of life for school aged children and their families. Both of our children go to parochial schools and are involved in church youth groups, so that means lots of cookie dough, magazines and trash bags here at our house. As a responsible parent, I know that it's necessary to have numerous fundraisers throughout the year.

But to be honest, when the flyer about the next fundraiser comes home with the girls, I break into a… Read More

I love to consume information and news. But I am lazy. Add to my laziness a busy life of family, kids, work and a touch of "A.D.D." and it's a recipe for disaster. I used to wade through so much junk just to get to the news and information I wanted to read. But then I found an EASY to find the stuff I like without having to go through tons of RSS feeds and wade through a lot… Read More

In my gut, I knew something was wrong.

Our older daughter has a chronic health condition that I'm not going to go into here because of her privacy. But in the last two or three years, my daughter's has not been well. I took her to a number of different doctors, specialists of
every kind. The doctors ran tests, we tried different medications and followed the directions of each of the different specialists and doctors. My daughter continued… Read More