There are days when time moves slowly and it drags — like the painful ticking of a clock as you wait for the day to […]
Vacation Day
My best friends are visiting me this week. Hallelujah. Today was our first full day and it shaped up into a very Door County vacation […]
Dahlias
A field of Dahlias. A freshly cut bouquet. A sign of a good day. And it was. With Love, Natalie
Why do you need to be who you were before?
I’m always finding random writing in old notebooks, but I don’t know when I wrote this one. It could be anytime in the last eight […]
Gusto
I went out to dinner with my mom, aunt, and cousin tonight — an “adult” dinner while my kid cousins were with their parents. We […]
Cousin Moments
All eight of them lined up on the couch in matching pajamas. Play-doh creations — a lion, a cow, a snake, a snowman with a […]
Dinosaurs
Dinosaurs and light-up shoes — my cousin and her three-year-old son are staying with me for the long weekend. I’ve never had a child in […]
New Headshots
Today I’m just really excited about these new headshots, taken on my thirtieth birthday in June. We got them back this morning. I wish every […]
Katsuki Bakugou
I got a new computer today! Or rather, I ordered one last month, it arrived a few days ago, and this morning I was finally […]