Just Because flowers in St. Louis

Most sends filed under just-because are actually one of six specific things, and naming them helps you order better. Thank you — for the neighbor who shoveled your walk after an ice storm, the colleague who covered a shift, the teacher finishing a hard semester in any of the districts this radius covers: St. Louis Public Schools, Ritenour, Normandy, Ferguson-Florissant, Hazelwood, University City, Clayton, Ladue, Parkway, Rockwood, Kirkwood, Webster Groves, Maplewood-Richmond Heights, Affton, Lindbergh, Mehlville, plus the archdiocese's grade-school network. School deliveries go to the front office, never to a classroom, so send the teacher's full name and the school name and expect a hand-off at the desk. New neighbor — a house changing hands on a Webster Groves or Kirkwood street, a first apartment in Tower Grove or the Loop. New baby, which starts in a birthing center and ends at home; Missouri Baptist in Town and Country, Mercy in Creve Coeur, Barnes-Jewish and St. Luke's all deliver a lot of St. Louis babies, but if discharge is within two days send to the house instead. New job or a promotion, which usually means a Clayton or downtown desk and therefore a floor number and a reception name. Thinking of you, the honest one — a friend going through something that has no ceremony attached. And the week-after send, which is the most underrated thing on this page: flowers that arrive at a household seven or ten days after a funeral, when the relatives have flown home and the food has stopped, do more than anything that stood in the chapel.