Denise is a mom on a mission to share all the fun things you can do with kids in St. Louis...and beyond! 
The truth is…I hate dying Easter Eggs. I mean, I love getting creative and doing something with my kids that I did when I was little. But I hate breaking out a half dozen cups–or mason jars–full of vinegar and hot water just to dye something I have to cram back into the fridge and […]
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Hold the Candy! A Dozen Ideas of Easter Eggstravaganza Fun
Are you stuck for ideas on what to put inside those tiny plastic eggs for your big Spring Easter Egg Hunt? Trying to avoid loading your kids up with sacks of sweets just to make their egg hunt “interesting”? Me too. Back in the good ol’ days, we decorated hard boiled eggs that the Easter […]
21 Ways to Egg Decorate Easter Eggs Every Mom Should Know
Whether you like to decorate hard boiled eggs, blown eggs or heck, even plastic eggs, I’ve got a fantastic way to make your kid’s Easter basket brimming with a rainbow of colors…and character! Every year I love to decorate eggs with my kids! Since we like to admire our hard work, we usually do paper […]
Springtime Village at Purina Farms
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! […]
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 […]
