Happy Thanksgiving

I will be heading out to Dothan tomorrow to spend Thanksgiving with my family. My kids went yesterday so I have had one whole day doing absolutely nothing. It has been such a nice little break for me. I have forgotten what it feels like to be by yourself. I wouldn't want it for long, but I welcome it now. I have been extremely stressed out lately and felt I was about to lose all patience with my kids. So my sweet mom and sister met me in Montgomery yesterday to go ahead and take them.
Anyway, hope everyone has a wonderful and Happy Thanksgiving.
Natalie

The Look of Fall

These pics don't do justice to what it really looks like from my house. The tree in my neighbors yard is like blood red. Simply amazing. Again, I am really going to miss this view.

I need to sell this house

Alright all my blog reading friends. I really need ya'll to pray that this house will sell. We got some feedback and it seems that my driveway (it's pretty steep) is going to keep me from selling the house. I am getting so tired of trying to keep this house clean. Not to mention I only see my husband every two weeks. I'm also getting a little more irritated with the kids. They fight all the time (well, my older two) and it is driving me crazy. So please keep me in your prayers with that concern too. Thanks for praying.
Nat

I'm Only 34

I have to say that I have never been asked this question before.

Katherine and I were in the checkout line at CVS and I was telling her that I loved her. When the lady in front of me was done, she turned and asked me if she was my daughter or my, get ready for this one, my GRANDDAUGHTER!!!!!!!!!!! I looked at her and said, "my granddaughter? Do I look old enough to have a granddaughter?" She said, "you never know. There are a lot of young grandmothers out there." I'm sure there are, but I am not one of them. And I definitely didn't think I looked old enough to be one. I'm sure I embarrassed her, but I thought I'm only 34. Anyways, I hope when I do become a grandmother people will still be asking if that two year old is my daughter or granddaughter, because then I will at least think that I look YOUNG ENOUGH to have a two year old.

Just Another Birthday?

I wrote this on my birthday which was Friday but have just now gotten around to posting it.

I was praying this morning about how even though today is my birthday, it's still just another day like any other. No more special, no less special. No reason to make much of me. And this is what I heard the Lord speak so sweetly to my heart.

"Today IS a special day because this is the day I created from eternity for you to be born. Thirty four years ago, nine months after I knit you together in your mothers womb, I gazed upon you as your mother gave birth to another one of my much loved and treasured creatures. Not one day too early and not one day too late. This is the day your journey with me began. This is the day I said to all the hosts of heaven, "It's time." It's November 2, 1973 and today Natalie Suzanne Faulk will be born in Dothan, AL. I will watch her, I will love her, I will be her God and she will be my child. I'll never leave her, or forsake her while she is walking on that foreign planet. I'll keep her safe until I finally bring her safely home."

Now I look at my birthday totally different. Now I close my eyes and say thank you Lord for creating me. I don't know why He decided that I needed to be born on that day and in that year, but I know that He did so with a plan. It's the same with you. He planned from eternity to put you here at the exact moment you were born. So, the next time your birthday rolls around, remember it was no accident, no coincidence that you were born on that day and in that year. It was carefully designed by the Master.

A few More Pics

My Trick or Treat Peeps

Here are a few pics from last night. They had a great time trick or treating and it was Katherine's first time going. She had a blast. We have enough candy to almost fill a pillow case. I see some pounds heading my way.


Anna Blake as 50's girl
Davis as a hunter
Elizabeth the Spanish dancer
Katherine the Princess
My kids with two friends making silly faces