Looking for the Perfect Mother's Day Gift?

The Webster Groves Public Library is offering delightful gift-making events for little ones.

Winners of Our Mother's Day Look-A-Like Contest

Meet the winners, chosen at random, from among the 41 entries in our contest.

Congratulations to Gina Marten, who won the grand prize $150 brunch after entering our Mother's Day Look-a-Like Contest on Patch. The contest started May 2 and ran through Tuesday at noon. Gina registered for the contest on Kirkwood Patch. Winners were chosen at random from the entries we received. The runners-up won a Patch T-shirt. They were Carissa Alfaro (who registered on Eureka-Wildwood Patch), Michelle Spann (on Maryland Heights Patch), Karen Wolfin (on Ballwin-Ellisville Patch) and Tracy Speller (on Chesterfield Patch). Congratulations and thanks for reading Patch!

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11 Gift Ideas for Mother’s Day To Cross Off Your List

If you’re thinking about giving one of these questionable items to your mom, think again.

Mother’s Day is May 13 and we’re already overwhelmed with commercials suggesting that we aren’t good children or husbands if we don’t break the bank honoring the woman who reared us this Mother's Day. If you’ve watched TV lately, you may think infants need to cough up diamond rings for their mommies, or that daughters should pick up a new smart phone for their moms. It’s true that moms like to receive special attention on Mother’s Day, but not all moms are so materialistic. In fact, a pizza company did a survey recently that found that 96% of moms would be happy with a homemade gift from their kids (and one of their pizzas on the table). So if you have little ones at home, direct them to the craft aisle when shopping for a Mother’s Day …

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Contest: Look Like Mom? Win Brunch for Her

Sons and daughters, celebrate Mother's Day and share a picture to show us how much you look like mom. You could win a $150 gift certificate for brunch.

NOTE: As of now, the contest is closed, per the rules below. We had 41 entries and we'll announce the winner on Wednesday. Thanks everyone for entering and for sharing your lovely photos! Happy Mother's Day! As Mother's Day approaches, we have an idea that could win you a $150 gift certificate to your brunch location of choice. All you've got to do is show us how much you look like mom — whether you're a daughter or a son. Oh, and moms? You can enter too, on behalf of your sons or daughters. We're giving away a brunch gift certificate worth up to $150 to your favorite place (provided it provides gift certificates!). All you have to do is show us how much you look like mom (or mom, how much you look like your kids). Enter our "Look Like Mom…

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Kurt Greenbaum

8:06 pm on Tuesday, May 1, 2012

Thanks for the note! I'll remove the one with just the two of you. Thanks for entering!   more ›

Spoil Mom with Breakfast in Bed on Mother's Day

Make the mom in your life feel like a princess with a tray full of homemade breakfast treats.

Breakfast in bed is a decadent treat often reserved for special occasions like Mother’s Day. My husband, however, likes to make all other husbands look bad or maybe he just likes to make all other wives envious. Either way, he likes to spoil me with breakfast in bed for no reason at all.   Nothing makes a woman feel more like a princess than the surprise of a beautiful tray of homemade breakfast treats carried up to her room. So I recruited my husband, the just-about-perfect Steve Hazan, to share his secrets to the ultimate breakfast-in-bed experience. I hope these suggestions will have many moms in Kirkwood and Webster Groves feeling like princesses on Sunday morning.  “First and foremost, go buy a proper bed tray at Bed, Bath and Beyond…

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