My Life

My Loud Dishwasher
Most of my adult life I have been washing dishes by hand. I know it shocking that there are people in AMERICA in the 21st century that do not have dishwashers, but it's true! I [...]
Meeting a Project Runway Fashion Designer
A couple years ago my best friend called me to let me know that there was a deaf designer on Project Runway that signed and had a cochlear implant. I had never watched the show [...]
15 Years Ago I Wasn’t Quite In Love
This is a really exciting year for me you guys. I am a bit of a romantic, and while most of our anniversaries are low key, the 5th and the 10th were unforgettable. Seriously. My [...]

Back to School After 17 Months

By Natalie|2023-06-12T06:24:13+00:00August 18, 2021|Categories: My Life|

I dropped all four of my kids off at school today. This is significant for SO many reasons. For one thing it's Elle's first time in school. She started half day Kindergarten today! That means for a couple hours all [...]

Baby Elle 5 Months

By Natalie|2023-06-12T06:34:08+00:00April 29, 2016|Categories: My Life, Speech Therapy|Tags: 5 months update, baby #4, Elle, ellis|

Here we are on the tippy tail end of Aril and Elle is closer to 6 months than she is to 5, but I haven't posted an update yet. At 5 months she weighed 17 pounds. She is in the top [...]

Messy Blog

By Natalie|2016-04-11T13:38:46+00:00April 11, 2016|Categories: My Life|Tags: baby elle, bangs, blog remodel, haircut, messy mom|

Every once in a while I have to do some house keeping on the blog. If you know me, or even if you just note the name of my blog, I am not that great at house keeping. This is [...]

Personality Tests

By Natalie|2016-03-30T21:18:59+00:00March 30, 2016|Categories: My Life, Uncategorized|Tags: DISC, h3 leadership, Myers Briggs, personality test, strength finders|

I have been reading H3 Leadership by Brad Lomenick while we are out of town for spring break and it has been really enlightening. In the chapter "A Habit of Self- Discovery" Lomenick suggests several different personality tests and recommends reviewing the [...]

Elle at 4 months

By Natalie|2016-03-11T16:19:01+00:00March 11, 2016|Categories: Babies, My Life|

Elle has had a major growth spurt over the past month. It's like someone pulled the cord on a self inflating raft and she just instantly filled out. She is currently sitting at 14 pounds of super cute chunkiness. Here [...]

I’m Back… Hopefully

By Natalie|2016-02-09T09:35:36+00:00February 9, 2016|Categories: My Life|

Things have been a little crazy at messymom.com. Mostly because of technical issues causing my website to crash repeatedly all day every day. So if you come to MessyMom.com and it looks like it no longer exists, just hang tight because [...]

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