Let’s talk cupcakes. Not those fresh-from-a-box little morsels you whipped up for the kid’s last birthday. No, real cupcakes. Cupcakes as big as your head. Cupcakes with feather light icing. Cupcakes so tasty they win wars (and end sibling battles too.) Yep, we’re talking Jilly’s Cupcakes today. Jilly’s Cupcakes have won Food Network’s “Cupcake Wars” …
St. Louis
St. Louis is known for several things: our baseball, our beer and our toasted ravioli. Oh there might be a few other things in there somewhere, but that’s the top three. Go ahead, ask anyone. Toasted ravioli is no longer a curiosity dish made up by those crazy Italians on The Hill. I heard that …
Need a place to play that’s inside? Got a kid who loves trains? Then here’s where you need to go: The Frisco Train Store in Valley Park. Formerly the location of the Whittle Shortline Railroad, the Frisco is basically the same store–but under new management. Current owners/operators Kristen and Tom Berry have spiffed the place up, …
I wanted to write up a review on the “new” Frisco Train Store in Valley Park today. It’s so totally awesome and if your kids are into trains you HAVE to come see it. But then I was thinking…if you, kind reader, haven’t been to the old store, you won’t understand why I’m gushing with …
I took the kids on a little blogger photo safari to the Delmar Loop this week. It was a win-win sort of trip–I found things to blog about and the kids got ice cream at Fitz’s American Grill and Bottleworks. Let me rephrase that, the kids got ice cream the size of their freakin’ heads. …
Need to get the wiggles out of your kid before (or after) shopping at the Bird Mall? Need a picnic spot after cruising Manchester Road? Then Des Peres Park is your place! It’s tucked away behind Des Peres City Hall and St. Paul’s Lutheran Church on Manchester Road, just across from the Bird Mall (West …
Are the kids bored? Looking for a fun way to get them outside in the fresh air, and maybe, just maybe, learn something too? Then point your SUV to MoBot, the Missouri Botanical Garden (AKA Shaw’s Garden for you natives). Yeah, I know. A garden for kids? How boring. NOT! The Missouri Botanical Garden has …
Tired of swings, slides and monkey bars? Take your kids to Turtle Park and watch them climb and crawl on Gamera-sized concrete turtles. The playground is located at the corner of Oakland and Tamm Ave, right across Hwy 40 (I-64 for you transplants) from the Zoo’s South parking lot. You can hike over to Forest …