A Little Piece of Heaven…

September 30, 2009

I have a geographic problem: I live in Connecticut, and my favorite place for my adorables to play is in Chelsea, Michigan (and now Lake Zurich, IL!  More on that in a minute), more than 12 hours from my home.

Welcome to The Treehouse.  It’s a huge, super-CLEAN facility to wipe your adorables out.

Here’s another look…

It has a separate play area for the littlest adorables.

Okay, now that we’ve established that the adorables are safe and having the time of their lives, let’s move on to what, in my eyes, makes this place really, really special.

1. Big, comfy chairs to curl up with a book, magazine, projects, etc.

2. WIRELESS internet.  So bring that laptop and get your Good Stuff on.  (Sorry, couldn’t resist).

3. Excellent food.  Seriously.

Here’s my favorite.  It’s the “Number One”: smoked turkey, homemade guacamole, monterey jack cheese, tomato, thousand island on grilled sourdough.  Deee-lightful.

This is the Pu-Pu Platter I order for the adorables.  Note to all restaurants: this is pretty much the perfect meal for kids.  Don’t you agree?

4. Abundant snack options.  Inside this little refrigerator are baggies of carrots, grapes, apples, string cheese, cupcakes, cups of berries, etc.

Pirate booty abounds.

5. Lots of little touches: hand sanitizer and Costco wipes everywhere, as in, you can look in any direction and see them immediately.  The bathrooms are oversized, super-clean and well-stocked with lots of amenities.  Also one of the workers behind the counter came out and offered to refill my Diet Coke, and I’m telling you, it was LOVE.

The Treehouse was created by Michelle Balaka, a mom of 2 who was tired of plastic chairs, concession-type food (pizza, nachos, hot dogs), and icky bathrooms at the usual places to take the adorables.  So she created her facility from scratch, literally.  She and her husband built it mostly themselves and her labor of love is apparent.  Little touches everywhere make it so obvious that a mom is in charge.

My dream is to meet my playgroup there (for lunch, obviously) a couple days a week.  The adorables can play, and we moms can talk and catch up.  Best part – noone has to clean up after the tornado of multiple adorables.

Though hopefully, we would not see the results of this sign…

And now for you Chicago residents: Michelle just opened a second Treehouse in Lake Zurich, IL.  It’s even bigger than the original.

More room, larger play structure…

More comfy couches to relax…

And the same great food to keep you coming back!

Find more information about the Treehouse in Chelsea.
See the new Lake Zurich Treehouse.
You will be WOW’ed. More locations are planned…

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