Nat’s Blog

Frank and Janie “Put your phone down!”  My mom doesn’t have a smart phone like the rest of us. She still has her flip phone that she doesn’t hear when the ringer goes off.  She hates when we are on our phones at the table and yells at us when we try to take a… Read more

I almost missed my writer’s group Saturday morning. I received a text from my friend Barb asking where we were meeting. I looked at the time on my phone and noticed I was already a half an hour late. I guess she was late as well. Should I skip? It was raining, I was still… Read more

Five years ago today, I was in surgery to have my cancer removed. We were just at the start of a very long journey. We had no idea what was in store for us. We were lucky. It could have been a completely different ending. At the time, it seemed, we may have been handed… Read more

This is a non-traditional homecoming picture.  I love it so much.  There are no fake smiles.  Just a girl with the basketball that she is so comfortable with and a boy pretending that it is a soccer ball.  Look at their smiles! When Josh told me that he was planning on asking Hope to the… Read more

I haven’t posted in a few weeks. July was a busy month for me and I’ve been so tired.  I wanted to use August to soak up every last minute of summer with the boys, but the truth is I didn’t. I wanted to go on unplanned adventures. I wanted to take each of the… Read more