It’s LEGO Heaven at St. Louis West County Mall
Where do you find the BEST LEGO toys around? The LEGO Store of course! I took the boys to our local store on open day years ago, and it’s still …
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Gateway to Fun: Children’s Garden
The Children’s Garden, inside the Missouri Botanical Garden, is an awesome play space for kids of any size. If you’re not familiar with the Children’s Garden, it’s a special kid …
The Great Mac and Cheese Debate: Chemical Dye vs Organic
There’s been a lot of talk about Kraft putting artificial dyes Yellow #5 and Yellow #6 in their Kraft Mac and Cheese. A few bloggers started an online petition to …
Is Your Mac & Cheese Out to Kill You?
Have you noticed all the chatter about Mac & Cheese lately? Vani Hari of Food Babe and Lisa Leake of 100 Days of Real Food started it all by asking Americans to vote …
Thinking Outside–or Inside–of the Box
We don’t buy a lot of things online and haven’t made a big appliance purchase in…forever. So one thing we lack around here are giant boxes. Expect this one largish …
Ding Dong the Twinkie is Dead?.
It looks like the labor showdown between Hostess, makers of lunchbox snacks like Twinkies and Ding Dongs, and their union bakers is coming to a miserable end. Update: On Friday …
Attack of the Googly Eyes!.
It all started last Halloween, when I put out my collection of faux pumpkins. Every year I decorate the orange foam pumpkins, usually by taping black paper Jack-o-Lantern faces …