Friday? Already? Yeesh. A lot has happened since we last spoke! I’m continuing to work on my new website, and although I’ve had a bit of a technical setback, I still expect the new and exciting look (and name!) to go live at some point in February. YEESSSS! It’s about dang time. 😉 On a […]

“I love you, Dad. I’ll see you tonight.” “I love you too, Kate.” Six years. But it feels like a lifetime. Engagements, weddings, babies, more engagements, more weddings, more babies. Happy times, sad times, milestones, big moments and small ones. Today especially, I remind myself: It’s not about the moments he’s missed since he’s been […]

Let’s talk a bit about how thrifty cheap I am. I’m so cheap that I pull into a gas station with my gas light on, and then I leave the station with my gas light STILL on. I mean, honestly. Who can fill up on $3.20/gallon without feeling like a total sucker. You know it’s […]

You know what I love most about Ben & Jerry’s? They give it to you straight. No surprises. No fancy low-fat, sugar-free, skinny-mini lingo on the packaging that makes you think, This could be healthy … I hope? With Ben & Jerry’s, you pretty much know from the get go: If you eat this every […]

I guess you could say the ball is rollin’. I’m knee-deep in becoming Katie N. Gardner. No turning back now, my dear. 😉 As some of you may know (and most of you may not), I take photos for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and the Waukesha Freeman a few times a week. I am a […]

I can honestly say this man has all of my heartstrings and I love him more than the air I breathe. As I sat at my desk a couple months back and read through my e-mails, Shawna’s words stopped me dead in my tracks. I had been corresponding back and forth with her fiancé, Jason, […]