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Month: March 2015

Health & Well Being/Identity/Life

Insecurities and Self-Advocacy

Posted on March 30, 2015 by noemikjames / 12 Comments

I electronically accepted the terms of my life insurance policy this weekend. I have continued to feel a lot of ambivalence about purchasing this policy, and a ...

Identity/Writing

Missing My Compulsion

Posted on March 27, 2015 by noemikjames / 13 Comments

Things have calmed down a bit this week. I’ve had some time to write. The problem is, I haven’t wanted to. I have a long list of post ideas, but I c...

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Neither Here Nor There

Posted on March 24, 2015 by noemikjames / 12 Comments

Sunday night my five hours of sleep was broken every 1-1.5 hours by an inconsolable boy who can’t yet express his needs. It was exhausting. Hauling my ass...

Identity/Life

Officially Looking

Posted on March 20, 2015 by noemikjames / 15 Comments

These last couple of weeks have been really hectic. It was a perfect storm of converging obligations. First there was the end of the trimester, with all the gra...

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School Days

Posted on March 19, 2015 by noemikjames / 21 Comments

{I’m sorry I’m delinquent in posting this. It’s been a crazy couple of days and I have wanted to take the time to actually write something of ...

Life

Some days

Posted on March 11, 2015 by noemikjames / 11 Comments

Some days, I make it to work with a few minutes to spare, even though my son woke up 4 times during my measly five hours of sleep, and I have time to write a bl...

Marriage

Expectations

Posted on March 10, 2015 by noemikjames / 12 Comments

I start bedtime with my daughter at 7:30, right after I finish putting my son to bed. I have tried all kinds of techniques to move the routine along, but no mat...

Identity/Marriage

Change

Posted on March 9, 2015 by noemikjames / 11 Comments

At my therapy session not long ago, I was lamenting some frustrations about my husband and the resentment I felt that I was doing so much work to try to improve...

Life/Marriage

Trudging Onward

Posted on March 6, 2015 by noemikjames / 11 Comments

Thank god it’s Friday. Not that the weekends provide much respite, but at least I don’t have to wake up at 5am for two days. Of course we lose an ho...

Friendship/Identity

Reactions

Posted on March 5, 2015 by noemikjames / 3 Comments

I was told, not long ago, that I am prone to overreact, to turn every minor set back into a four alarm fire. I was told this by someone who knows me well and wh...

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