The Good Natasha Post

I love the way Natasha looks in this picture. It captures so many aspects of her inner beauty while doing a good job at expressing her outer beauty as well. (Natasha doesn't like her smile in it, but I say it's wonderful...photo compliments of Ryan Wiedmaier.)

Natasha is an enigma sometimes. She has so much strength of character, but her approach is so tender that people tend to feel calm around her. She has a very strong personality, something which I've seen in large measure since we've been married. (If you understand Littauer's work, we're both cholerics...what a recipe for fun!) :)

Natasha is talented at many things, too. She is obviously comfortable in her strengths, but I have seen few people approach her weaknesses with the bravery she has. During the darkest days of her fight with fibromyalgia, she always chose to make the best of each day. Even when she was told we would have to alter our diets if she wanted to live "normally" again, she chose to find ways to make it work. She has a real phobia of games, but she's even chosen to play games (like Guesstures last night...who saw that coming?)!

Is she perfect? No way. She won't go to bed without me and is frustrated when I sit up posting on my blog (half kidding). She tends to take on too much at once. To top it all off, she likes Sound of Music!!

Still, she's perfect for me. On the outside, she's the type of woman that artists for years have tried to capture in still life (without success, I might add). On the inside, her well-rounded character makes her outer beauty pretty dull. It must be rare to find this once-in-a-lifetime thing, and I thank God today (and every day) that somehow I found her. (And that somehow she is still blinded by love and gives me compliments that I shouldn't write on a blog that I know people read.)