Keepin' it Cool

Cool mom, cool boys and cool ideas.

There are no two ways around it - Sara is cool.

When one of her two little men get an ouchie, she pulls out one of these chilled ketchup "icepack" to help with the pain.

Cool, right?

And that's just the start. Check out the cool way she loads her purse with diaper necessities:

Inside the purse is a mini-diaper carrier with all the changing table necessities - grab and go! This way she eliminates the "diaper bag" for a purse, but still has everything in one place for a quick change.

"It's easy to hand Parker off to dad for a change and my husband doesn't have to carry the whole bag."

The rest of her purse holds all the other things you can't leave home without, like stickers and Thomas trains.

Benadryl and an EpiPen are two essentials Sara carries, though she admits she's terrified to actually use the Pen. She found out the hard way that her little boy has severe allergies to egg and dairy products (among others).

That's also why Sara keeps "safe" snacks on hand. "I'm always on guard when we're in an uncontrolled environment," Sara says. "I've learned a lot from doing Internet research and talking with other mom's whose children have allergies." Sara also says restaurants are more accommodating than she would have previously thought.

Sara shares an egg-less, dairy-less Delicious Banana Bread Recipe:
1/2 c oil
1 c sugar
3 T water, 3 T oil, 2 tsp baking pwd (combined)
3 bananas
2 c flour
1/2 tsp baking pwd
1/2 tsp salt
3 TBS rice or soy milk
1/2 tsp vanilla
*Mash bananas, beat in oil, sugar and combined water, oil, and baking pwd. Add dry ingredients, milk, and vanilla. Mix well. Pour into greased pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour.

Sara also uses and recommends the food allergy network.