Posts by "raejeanr"

Spring has sprung here in Arizona. In fact, the time is short between the official start of spring and temperatures soaring to triple digits. Before the heat hits in full force, here are some fun ways to spring into action with your Cub Scout – or really any child.   Plant something Nothing says spring [...]

Airman by Eoin Colfer made a high flying family book club! It is set in the era of the first aeronautical innovations on a small sovereign island country supported by diamond mining. The brilliantly clever Connor Broekhart faces down the evil conspirator who took the lives of his king and his mentor. Besides his love [...]

Spring has sprung, so it’s time to head outside while you can. There is no better time or place to let our imaginations take flight while enjoying a high flying activity with our kiddos by building paper bag kites! This project is more challenging than the flight activities I shared last fall. We made kites [...]

Maybe it’s just me, but I don’t usually think of Arizona and Sea Life in the same thought. That’s changed with the opening of the latest SEA LIFE aquarium right here in Tempe. It joins the ranks of the 34 other worldwide aquariums with locations in Germany, the UK, Italy and four other locations in [...]

Life is sweet and so was this family book club! How could it not be sweet when our book was The Candymakers by Wendy Mass? This entertaining middle grade book is full of imagination and intrigue. In the town of Spring Haven, four children have been selected to compete in the national candymaking contest of [...]

I have a little crafter living under my roof. This same child inspired our fall paper plate crafts, a disco party and took us to a local pottery studio.  She enjoys creating scratch art, but after seeing the prices of the paper, she wanted to try her hand at making her own scratch art paper. [...]

January started with a bang! Before it gets away from me, here’s a fun run down of my top 10 posts from 2012. 10. Spring Cleaning. I don’t know about you, but I’m still recovering from cleaning up the Christmas mess. Maybe next month I’ll be ready to think about spring cleaning (or the month [...]

We loved reading Christmas Jars by Jason F. Wright so much; we were excited to read the sequel, Christmas Jars Reunion for our family book club.  Overall the story was good, not quite as strong as the original, but it still made me cry.  Regardless, we enjoyed the excuse to discuss the book, eat food [...]

Cafe Zupas is coming to Dana Park in Mesa! This is their third location in the valley. I was lucky enough to take my family to a preview night and sample their delicious salads, sandwiches, soups and desserts! First I tried the Honey Bacon Club Grilled Panini (minus the tomatoes). So good! I took half [...]

With my kids getting older, I haven’t bought too many toddler gifts recently. But thanks to my kids really getting older – making me a grandma kind of older – I’ve discovered I did Christmas gifts all wrong when my kiddos were little! They didn’t even know what’s going – much less care what they [...]