Denise is a mom on a mission to share all the fun things you can do with kids in St. Louis...and beyond! 
Spring has many heralds in St. Louis: the Cardinals are playing in Jupiter, the Missouri Botanical Garden is sprouting crocus (croci?) and Purina Farms is hosting the Spring Time Village. When does Purina Farms open for the season? On March 23, 2019 Purina Farms in Gray Summit–just a big bunny hop from Eureka–will open for business once again! […]
Easter
How to Make Real Awesome Minecraft Easter Eggs
If your kids are bored of making “ordinary” dyed Easter eggs, I’ve got a cool idea for you: Minecraft Easter eggs! Eggs are one of the few things in Minecraft that aren’t square, so they’re easy to reproduce with real chicken eggs! They come in a ton of colors and they’re pretty fun to make. You […]
Rainbow Deviled Eggs for Easter
When I was a kid, I’d painstakingly dye hard boiled Easter eggs that my parents “left out for the bunny to hide” in the morning. I’m not sure why we’re all not dead of salmonellae poisonings, because I’m pretty sure that mom deviled those eggs later for Easter dinner…or they ended up in my Buck Rogers […]
99 Ways to Dye an Easter Egg…But You Just Need This One
If you ask Google how to dye an Easter egg you’re gonna get a lot of weird advice. So if you want to dye your eggs with turnips, silk ties, melted crayons…move along. This isn’t the blog post you’re looking for. But if you want to know the one seriously easy way to dye your kid’s […]
A Fool Proof Way to Hard Boil an Easy to Peel Egg
I don’t know when it was that I totally lost all my cooking skills. (If I ever had any to start with…) I began to dread Easter and all those hard boiled eggs! Sure, I could whip up a good batch of dye and dazzle the kids with technicolor eggs. But when it came time to […]
Eckert’s Easter Egg-Citement for Spring!
It’s spring! And that means Easter is just around the corner–and so are egg hunts! If you’re looking for a fun place to take the kids for a big egg hunt, I’ve got just the place for you: Eckert’s in Belleville! What, you thought Eckert’s was just a place to pick fruit? Heck no, Eckert’s […]
Spring Time Frame: An Easy Craft for the Kids
Welcome spring with a fun, colorful and super easy DIY frame that the kids can make with just a few cheap supplies. I got the idea for this project after a frame that Mitch made for me in pre-school was “broken” on “accident.” Seriously, I have no idea how my coffee spilled on a frame […]
