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My name is Katlyn and I’m a freelance writer who works from home with my two toddlers and Labrador Retriever. My husband and I have been married for eight years and we are living at our seventh address in our fourth state. For work, I write what I’ve been assigned. Here, I write what’s on my heart and mind.

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***new blog post*** | Personal Records | “Since running my first half marathon nine years ago, I’ve discovered there are other kinds of goals. They may not come with the same outward glory, but in a funny way, they can have a bigger pay-off.” > Link in bio <

Come on, kids. Two by two.

We are mere mortals among giants.

Homemade pumpkin cookies to follow pumpkin carving 🎃. It was a good day in the kitchen, but this now concludes my cooking and baking for Fall 2019.

Tradition: Reuben calzone, pumpkin carving, college football. This Reuben calzone recipe from @southernbite is quick and easy and the @clekraut classic caraway sauerkraut and @dietzandwatson New York style corned beef make it extra delicious 😋

**New blog post** | To the movers | “But this kind of move, the one I’m talking about, is where you leave behind the life you know and start a new one. And this is its own kind of heartbreak.” > Link in bio <

Surprise. In between client assignments and jotting down musings on life, I’m about 50,000 words into a historical fiction manuscript. I’ve been trying to wrestle this onto the page for awhile. It’s not easy to carve out time for it in between taking care of two littles and working remotely but I still feel like it’s a story that needs to be told. So, even if it gets set down for months at a time, I keep picking it back up and chipping away. One day it’ll be done and ready to query, until then it’s one key at a time, one word at a time, one paragraph at a time.

We’re less than 2 weeks out from the @akronmarathon (half) and we logged our last long training run this weekend. We had a 5:30 a.m. start for 11 miles. Shout-out to grandma and grandpa for getting up with the babies while we were running. Shout out to this guy for completing his longest run ever. We’ve been getting over the preschool plague and contending with air travel and car trips over the course of the past week and I was pacing slower than normal. At the end of the run Levi was within sight but ahead of me (I told him to go on) but at mile 10 he looped back around to finish the final mile stride-for-stride with me. Hard truth: it’s difficult to log long runs by yourself as a female. I run with mace and an alarm but that still doesn’t calm my mind when I’m on a run by myself and can’t see another person on the trail. To have some of the people I trust most watch our kids and run with me for this last long run was a gift. Can’t wait to cross the finish line in {12} days and mark my first half since having kids and Levi’s first half ever. Let’s do this.

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