Mary Beth Evans Library

HIGHS AND LOWS  February 4th, 2011 by Mary Beth Evans The last month has brought many highs and several lows. Some that are hard to wrap my head around. On the high, my kids were all home for about a month and now that they are adults or close to, we can really enjoy the [...]

My Holiday Recap Thursday, January 6th, 2011 I can’t believe another year has gone by. It seems like yesterday I was sharing last year’s holiday adventures with all of you. Crazy! All of my kids are older and my two oldest live away from home so the holidays are a great time for us to [...]

Make a Connection  Thursday, October 28th, 2010 We’ve come to an interesting place in society that I can’t help but take notice of. With the advancement of technology has come the regression of human to human contact. Why call when you can text right? Wrong. There is a whole generation of kids who can barely [...]

Fly Bird… Thursday, May 20th, 2010 Last weekend marked a true milestone in our family. Our oldest son Danny graduated from college – in four years too, which now a days is a big feat. One of the greatest sounds is your child’s name announced at graduation! I have blogged about Danny before, the wild [...]

Nurturing Bonds to Last a Lifetime Thursday, January 21st, 2010 This afternoon I went to lunch for one of my oldest friends birthday. There are 3 of us that have been friends since we were in high school.  Luckily we all live extremely close to each other, one even lives on my street.  We didn’t [...]

Parenting Payoff  Thursday, January 14th, 2010 A funny thing has happened over my children’s holiday break this year – I think my son Danny has started to grow up (finally).  I might be premature declaring this, but why not he is 22 years old.  I must go back and give you a bit of history [...]

Road Trip Wrap Up Thursday, January 7th, 2010 I have blogged several times about the effect of this tough economy.  How it has touched all of us in some way.  Over the holidays I saw many old friends, met some new ones and everyone’s story was similar.  So many “bread winners” of the family are [...]

Our Road Trip Update Thursday, December 31st, 2009 Last Wednesday my husband and I watched The Weather channel to see how the pending winter storm would affect our road trip to Telluride Colorado.  It looked like it might get rough so we did something we have never done in all the years we have been [...]

The Struggle with Re-entry Thursday, December 24th, 2009 Let me start by saying I have always prided myself with how loving and close my husband, my kids and I are.  We have always been a giant pretzel.  Talking about everything, cozying up on the couch…kissing and hugging.  My over 6’ tall boys still kiss their [...]

Family Fun and Letting Go Thursday, December 3rd, 2009 What a week…we survived our whirlwind trip to the Big Apple.  We arrived on Wednesday, late afternoon and left again at 5pm on Friday. So often we think going across the country for two accumulative days is way too crazy and we choose not to go, [...]