Normally I use this blog to share places to go and things to do with your kids. But right now I just want to share something really cute my six-year-old did for me. I’m gushing with ewwy-gooey love over this one. He made me a little pink book. The kid is always crafting something and …
Just for Mom
We love to play with anything that glows in the dark, especially during summer nights when the kids can stay up late. Glow sticks, light up balloons, glow in the dark paint. Well, except for the glow in the dark paint, that didn’t really work. I’ll have to write a post on that later. When …
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 just as magical. According to the St. Louis Business Journal, the store is 2,500-square-feet of LEGO goodness. There’s a “Living Room,” or interactive play area, …
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 section of the Botanical Garden with slides, a cave, tree houses, a riverboat, musical flowers (really!) and a splash pad in when the weather warms …
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 get Kraft to remove the dye from its Mac and Cheese saying that it can cause cancer and make your kids hyper. As we noted …
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 on their Change.org petition to get Kraft to remove yellow dyes #5 and #6 from all its versions of Kraft Mac & Cheese. They’re saying that artificial …
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 box cluttering up my craft/laundry/holiday storage room. It was leftover from moving day and got stuffed in a corner. Forgotten. Until I needed to sew …
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 morning Hostess confirmed they would shut down. Neither side of the employee/employer face-off has blinked as of 8pm on Thursday night. Hostess already shut down …