5 Board Book Shower Gifts for Friends with "Taste"

We all have them. We might secretly want to be them. The friends who have impeccable taste. From iPhone cases, Saturday casual clothes or the workout towel they soak in sweat - everything is on trend. For those delightfully urbane childless friends with their perfectly curated modern homes who now find themselves imminently with child (facing the abyss of laundry and lego land-mines scattered about their pristine sustainably harvested wood floors) Milk Crate Castle would like to suggest 5 board books.

Stand Strong with Boston: Our Favorite Charity Swag

our heart, like oneheartboston.org's, is downtown

Whether you are Boston local or flung far afield and have a special connection to Boston or Watertown you probably feel motivated to do something after the Boston Marathon bombing and the manhunt that followed.  If you’d like to show your support for our victims and appreciation for our first responders and law enforcement I’d suggest two things you can do to honor them from anywhere: give blood to your local blood bank or take a CPR/First Aid course. If you’d prefer to donate cash instead two great places to start are One Fund Boston  and the Watertown Police Department.

5 Reasons You Should Be Using a Jogging Stroller

Any parent with young children knows that when you're struggling just to maintain your own standards of basic hygiene, personal fitness can start to seem as unrealistic a goal as that novel you're totally going to write someday. The best strategy I've found for avoiding this pitfall is to annihilate any expectation of exercise as some sort of private, personal endeavor, and instead seek out opportunities to make exercise a family activity. One great way to do that is by pushing your kids around in a jogging stroller.