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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 [...]

Just the Girls Friday, November 12th, 2010 This past weekend 9 women gathered in Colorado from around the country to celebrate my best friend Carrie’s “landmark” birthday. One from New York, one from Boston, one from Louisville, one from Colorado and five from southern California. Some of us had met before, some had not. What [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Road Trip Thursday, December 17th, 2009 By Mary Beth Evans We are a family of five….Now a very big 5.  Both my boys and husband are over 6′ tall. My daughter’s 5′7” and I am  the shrimp at 5′4″(on a good day).  Hard to imagine, all you gals with your sweet little children, but this is [...]

Summer Entertaining: Recipes for making tacos, mojitos, and memories Written By: Mary Beth Evans For more summers than I can count, I have thrown Saturday evening get-togethers with three of my closest girlfriends and our families. It still brings smile to my face to think of the kids bursting through the gates to reunite in [...]