Personal and Professional Musings
Though I haven’t had a chance to work on much lately, I used to be an avid scrapbooker and I still have all the supplies to prove it. I first started in middle school and a big part of my layouts was the journaling. My OCD tendencies made it such that each event (because an…
Happy New Year! Back from holiday and feeling refreshed, ready to tackle the year. No goals, just hopeful for lots of love, laughs and life. Bring it on, 2018!
I think motherhood is (among other things) one giant lesson in prioritizing. We are staring down the barrel of fall and I have no idea what happened to spring and summer. Most of the past few months have been spent figuring out how to balance motherhood and work; just for funsies, we threw in buying…
I know, I know– it’s April and here I am posting about February. I’m totally playing the baby card on this one… February was a big milestone month! Early on, The Boy began rolling over, getting himself to his belly from his back, which we were not expecting to have happen to soon! We saw…
The following is a letter I wrote to the Napa Valley Unified School District Board of Trustees, regarding the issue of my alma mater’s mascot, the Indian. I’m sharing it here, with the hope that more people affiliated with Napa High will voice their opinions on the subject, as it appears to me that the…
One of my New Year’s resolutions was to be better about blogging (isn’t it always?!) and taking that one step further, to do a recap of each month. When I did my look back at 2016, I realized how many smaller moments would happen each month and how I didn’t want those to get lost…
I know some might say 2016 was a rough year, but in the Natali household (no longer the LeMasters-Natali household because I finally got around to officially changing my name) it was one of the best, namely because this couple became a trio. Here’s a look at some of our best moments from the year:…
Edit: I wrote this Weekend Routine post while still pregnant and now that Luca is here, I will have to do a post to compare to our new reality. For now, here are some thoughts as if we were still a couple and not a family of three… I was talking to my aunt a while back…
With sunshine pouring in our family room, Dave and I with our coffee and Luca snuggled up with us, it felt like Christmas morning.