GET OUT! 150 Easy Ways for Kids and Grown-Ups to Get Into Nature and Build a Greener Future- by Judy Molland This is an odd little book, and I mean it as a compliment, in the realm of green guides. This book has ideas for beginners and veterans of the green lifestyle alike. Unlike a [...]
GET OUT! 150 Easy Ways for Kids and Grown-Ups to Get Into Nature and Build a Greener Future
Be a Tourist in Your Own Town
We have been in our town of 80,000 for about six years, but it took having an exchange student living with us for us to discover historic home tours, a bus tour downtown we knew nothing about, annual festivals and the hours of the farmer’s market.
On the Road to Type-A-Mom Conference
So instead of heading out early, early this morning, my mom and I decided to go ahead and drive out last night since we are both night owls and prefer driving at night to trying to get up early in the morning. So – quick change of plans – and we started loading up kids [...]
A good but tired weekend….
So where am I anyways? Well…I’ll tell ya’. That’s what this update is all about. Thursday night we (Sidney, Evan and I) left for Antlers to go visit HIS parents for a week or so. He’s hunting, helping around the farm, getting in touch with his country boy side, etc. My mom held her Croptoberfest [...]
Trip to Fort Smith
So I went to Fort Smith for Tammy and Robby’s birthday celebration as well as checking out the new lake house Mom and Dad just closed on (a second home to “getaway” to….not a moving to a new home house). It was a really nice trip made better only by the fact that I got [...]
The first of the many updates: Our big trip!

So I know…I know….I haven’t updated in a long time but there’s some good reasons…. So our big trip to North Carolina was fantastic. Two weeks of fun, travel, and as with any Bellisario (and now apparently England) full of many-mini-adventures! Stops in Tennessee the first few days were awesome. We went to an IMAX [...]
Almost Away!
So….Thursday we leave for our big vacation. Part of it of course, is the 85th birthday celebration for my grandmother. Which is awesome…but we are taking a full week to drive up there! How lovely…we are going to take our time and see the sights of Tennesee and North Carolina. Including three full days at [...]
Surfacing….
So I think I may finally be beginning to surface for a moment, to catch my breath and check my barrings before another deluge overwhelms me. At least that’s how it has seemed lately. April was the black-hole month that seemed to just totally disappear. **A couple very tiring trips to Fort Smith because of [...]
Plans for this weekend….
Plans for this weekend include my first solo trip with the babe. Evan and I are going to Fort Smith for a multiplicity of reasons: 1 – Heather’s birthday; 2 – Dad’s birthday; 3 – Let mom and dad spend more time with their grandbaby; 4 – Let everyone at church meet him and coo [...]
Back!
Well that was actually a lot of fun. The test went well…I will pass both parts ~ I feel very confidant on that matter. So as of Friday when I stepped out of the testing room, I was able to breathe a huge sigh of relief and immediately felt much better. Sidney had already purchased [...]










