Did you know that every year thousands of school nutrition professionals meet to swap ideas and recipes to prep their cafeterias for the coming school year? Neither did I! So I was pretty surprised when I got an invite to the School Nutrition Association’s big conference this July here in St. Louis. This post is …
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Or how to pig out on ice cream while hiking 2.8 billion scale miles… The Delmar Loop in University City (just north of Forest Park) is a crazy cool neighborhood with lots of great places for families to explore. There’s tons of great restaurants, interesting shops, the infamous Loop Trolley…and the Planet Walk! Psst: as …
Beat the I’m bored blues with this totally random list of 10 Awesome Ways to have fun in Downtown St. Louis…with kids. We’ve all been there. The kids are bored and you’re running out of ideas of what to do with them. Go to the zoo…again? Hit a park? Been there, done that. Here’s my …
After our beloved St. Louis Blues won the Stanley Cup I kept thinking, geez…this Halloween we’re gonna see some hockey costumes! Specifically: Stanley and Gloria! I searched the internet and didn’t come up with any really good tutorials. (I think I’ll work on one later!) I DID get a few good ideas, and there’s lots …
MADE For Kids is the Magic House’s cool “maker space” for school aged kids located in St. Louis City. It’s a permanent satellite location, just blocks from Forest Park on Delmar. Mitch is beyond ecstatic to explore @MADE–he LOVES the Magic House, but now that he’s 12 he’s really starting to outgrow most of it. …
The Moonlight Ramble is BACK baby–save the date on Aug. 17, 2019 for the most unusual family ride of the year! The Moonlight Ramble is a night time bike ride through St. Louis proper on a Saturday night as close to the full moon as possible. It’s a charity ride, not a race, and its …
Until the recent “highway lid” was installed over Hwy 44, the Gateway Arch had been down right difficult to photograph. Well, difficult if you wanted any people in the photo. This is one of my favorite shots, and it was pretty tricky to get since it was using a digital pocket camera propped up on …
There’s a ton of fun, cheap and sometime FREE summer things to do in St. Louis when the kids are out of school. In fact, there’s so much to do, you’ll want to make a “summer bucket” list to cover it all. Not as creepy as a regular bucket list, your summer bucket holds all …