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As a kid, I’d spend hours sifting through my mum’s jewelry box, organizing and reorganizing her necklaces and earrings, dreaming of the day I’d be grown enough to wear them. As a moody teen, I embraced a “more is more” philosophy. Iwore piles of cheap jewelry from the flea market, jelly bracelets from wrists to elbow, and so many ten cent mood rings that my fingers were stained green. As an adult, I’m a little more discerning — but I do still love to sparkle and shine with amazing jewelry....

More from CafeMom: 20 Totally Brand-New Baby Girl Names No One Else Will Have These names might inspire you, or maybe you’ll want to find something more unique. Either way, having a baby name on the most popular baby names list surely means you’re doing something right! Click through our slideshow to see if your little girl’s name made the cut! (And check out our list of most popular baby boy names of the year, too....

Being a single mother almost always means a life spent racing the clock. Our days often begin well before dawn and extend long past sundown. In between, our schedules are filled with the rigors and challenges of balancing career, child rearing, and homemaking. An evening spent with a great guy is something I know I always look forward to. But what guys think is a dating hot spot may be, for a single mom, a surefire dating not-not....

Baby fever is highly contagious and pretty tough to fight and all that, but the funny thing about it is that in most cases, it eventually fades away. A couple of years ago, I caught a case of baby fever myself and suddenly decided I was ready to have another child, even though I’ve been on the “one and done” plan from the very start. My husband and I started trying, and I got all excited about the thought of having another little baby in the house and even went so far as to download a baby naming app on my iPhone....

According to Science magazine, babies who are conceived in summer are healthier than those who are conceived at other times during the year. It’s a correlation scientists have probed for some time now. They’ve noted before that winter births can cause more problems later in life from mental illness to even early death, but looking at the month of conception rather than birth month also allowed them to account for gestational length....

With no further ado, here is the sexual bucket list for parents. Here are the 50 must-do sexual acts for parents. The sexual bucket list for moms and dads! See below: 1.) Sex in the car (cause you can’t do it anywhere else!). 2.) Sex in the rain (because you’ll get caught inside!). 3.) Trying to finish as the kids bang on the locked door. 4.) Drunk, after a Saturday date night....

The turkey falls on the floor by mistake; the gravy is lumpy; the mashed potatoes resemble glue; the dog eats the entire pumpkin pie. (Are you scratching your head wondering what in the world I’m talking about? Then … uh … just kidding! These things have never happened to me, either.) Oops! Forgot to butter the pan! The fact is: No Thanksgiving dinner can be absolutely perfect. There’s always some kind of unforeseen culinary calamity no matter how well-intentional and organized your cooking plan....

The photo series by San Francisco photographer Carey Lynne Fruth is all about body positivity. (And yes, it’s inspired by the Kevin Spacey flick of the same name. If you haven’t seen the 1999 drama, Kevin Spacey’s middle-aged dad-in-a-rut has recurring sexual fantasies about his daughter’s teenage friend playfully waiting for him among strategically placed rose petals.) Fruth asked women to think of themselves NOT as models, but to be “authentic in their sensuality, vulnerability, and complexity....

Now bear with me, because things are going to start to sound like the plot to a horror movie. Turns out, the house is not only haunted, but it was also the inspiration for the 2011 debut season of the popular FX show that best showcases haunted places: American Horror Story. So now the couple is suing the brokers who sold them the house (lovingly dubbed the “murder house”) without spilling these details — for a hefty $3....

A 30-pan palette? Sure. 50 pans? It’s been done. 100 pans? Please, that’s child’s play. So believe me when I say that the biggest, baddest, most magical eye shadow palette is HERE, and it’s ready to blow your mind. Feast your eyes on the biggest eye shadow palette ever created. This holographic beauty ($39.50, JD Glow Cosmetics) is 11" by 17" — i.e. flipping MASSIVE — and weighs 56 ounces when it’s empty....

title: “Tips For Transitioning Your Toddler From A Crib To A Bed” ShowToc: true date: “2024-10-25” author: “Michael Roark”

That’s right. They are literally all over your house, your car, the store — they are even FLOATING THROUGH THE AIR. We’re talking death, people. At any minute, I could be killing my 2-year-old by not wiping down the kitchen counter. Or not cleaning a bottle according to the directions. Or happily snapping Instagram pics while he tastes new foods — foods that may or may not have been cooked to 160 degrees because I don’t have a damn food thermometer, who the eff does?...

So because they’re all classified as nude shades — and because Star made it a point to talk about how universally flattering his lipsticks are, no matter your complexion — I decided to put them to the test on three different skin tones. Will they be worth it for me? Or anyone else, for that matter? Let’s find out. But when we eventually got to putting them on our lips, we faced some serious issues....

I swear, we went to sleep one evening and I still had him by 1/16 of an inch (okay, maybe 1/32). By the next morning, we were the same height. And even though he turned 14 this month, part of me feels like I just brought him home from the hospital. So, how is it possible that he’s suddenly able to look down at me and gently mock my ever-graying hair?...

But honestly, all I can think is when I look at those naked photos is Couldn’t Amber have at least cleaned her bedroom before doing an Internet-bound nudie photo shoot in there? Amber, a word about your bedroom, please …? First off, sister, before you worry about stripping off all your clothes and strategically placing your hands and hair over your private parts, why don’t you make the bed. That tousled unmade bed makes your room look like a pigsty (and by the way, makes many people think about sex), and we can see your box spring!...

An article in Playboy by sex educator Justin Lehmiller points to a study published this past September in science journal PLOS ONE in which women in the US were asked to take a look at a number of 3D penis models and pick the one they liked the best. These are some of the 3D models participants chose from. – PLOS ONE For a long-term partner, the majority of women chose penises with a circumference of 4....

Anyway! I thought it would be fun to make a list of the number of children certain families have, and what it means about them. Note: This list is meant for entertainment purposes only. (Sort of.) Here’s what the number of children you have says about you. Families with one child. Mom and Dad fancy themselves intellectuals. They’ve thought long and hard about the decision to have a child, and likely had one a little bit later on in life....

Except Crazy Hat Day is not, in fact, all that much fun. Neither is Pajama Day or Wear-Your-Clothes-Inside-Out Day or Silly Sock Day. No, not much fun at all. I learned this lesson a long time ago, but I forgot about it until the other day, which just happened to be the annual Crazy Hat Day at my kids’ school. I remembered the no-fun thing at precisely 7:24 a.m.. That’s when I heard myself yelling, “What do you mean the court jester hat with the jingle bells isn’t crazy?...

If you’re already firm on your decision to keep your kid off social media, the advice from Melanie Hempe, the founder of Families Managing Media, that’s getting a lot of attention this week probably won’t surprise you. Hempe warns that young brains aren’t yet ready to juggle the distractions of social media, and they need to be broken into tech slowly to teach them responsible means to use it. Without good Internet usage habits, kids are at risk for social media addiction — it’s not unlike video gaming in that aspect....

But let’s get real: What happened to this mom isn’t actually about hair, is it? It’s about judgment between moms and the idea that there are so-called ideals to check off if you want to be considered a “good mother.” Apparently, good mothers don’t dye their hair outrageous colors? More from CafeMom: Everything You Need to Know to Get Galaxy Hair When those mothers at school snarked about Mel’s hair color, they weren’t actually talking about the dye....