The last thing I want to do on the day after Thanksgiving is cook…or fight through traffic at the mall for that matter. But what I DO want is to spread is a little love, kindness and hope. And of course….noodles!
St. Louis
Lights! Polar Bears! Snow! Ok, I could do without the snow…but it’s time to turn up the Christmas Magic and head over to the St. Louis Zoo for it’s annual holiday light show: Wild Lights! They’re stringing up a MILLION lights around the zoo, along with cute winter displays. Big changes for 2020! You MUST get …
This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, INC. and The Coca-Cola Company, all opinions are mine alone. #ServeWithACoke #Schnucks #CollectiveBias Summer might be over, but that doesn’t mean we have to hibernate on the couch with our streaming TV and video games! Nope, there’s still plenty of beautiful days ahead to get outside and …
It’s Friday the 13th and I’m ready to go hide under my covers! Are you the superstitious sort? I try not to be…but sometimes I just can’t help it. Is it really a day of bad luck, or is it just that I notice “bad” things more easily today? Friday the 13th I got the …
Let’s be truthful…if my kid were given the choice of a beautiful St. Louis style BBQ pork steak or a big bowl of plain buttered noodles…he’d choose the noodles. Every. Time. He’s not exactly the most adventurous eater around–he’s more of a chicken nugget and bean burrito kinda guy. And when it comes to pasta night? …
It was a beautiful Sunday afternoon in October, with clear blue skies and some of that lingering St. Louis summer still in the air. A little hot for Autumn, but not so much to make a person complain. We could hear kids squealing in the bounce house not far away, but all we could see was …
The Chesterfield Valley Pumpkin Patch will not open in 2018. The short lived patch was squeezed into a scrap of undeveloped land next to the outlet mall. It was trying to fill a hole in our hearts left by the unfortunate closing of Rombach’s 100 year old family farm, just a few hundred feet down the …
Grocery shopping is one of the most annoying tasks on a mom’s to-do list and one I’m happy to delegate. Back in June I wrote up a guide to grocery delivery services for St. Louis Magazine and found that I was in the delivery zone for both Schnucks and Shop N Save, and a 15 minute …






