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Suspended

Posted on August 27, 2016 by noemikjames / 19 Comments

Yesterday, around 10:30am, I got the call: my son had bit yet another classmate–the third biting incident this week–and was being suspended for two ...

Identity/Life

Mom Jeans

Posted on August 26, 2016 by noemikjames / 26 Comments

Well, it’s started. One of the harder years of my teaching career is under way. I have 250 students this year. 251 actually. How can that be? Because I se...

Minimalism

In defense of two or more (A post about things, not kids)

Posted on August 22, 2016 by noemikjames / 13 Comments

Minimalism teaches that one of something is generally enough. One of the first steps in getting rid of stuff is to free yourself of any duplicates you may have ...

Work/Teaching

Better

Posted on August 19, 2016 by noemikjames / 4 Comments

Thank you to everyone who reached out on my last post. I have been in a rough spot this week, but things are getting better. Yesterday I spent several hours at ...

Identity

Struggling

Posted on August 18, 2016 by noemikjames / 4 Comments

It took until early this week for me to realize that I’m feeling a lot of anxiety right now. It’s a low grade, kind of panicky feeling. I know it...

Identity/Life

Things I’m Weird About: Clothing Addition

Posted on August 15, 2016 by noemikjames / 14 Comments

There is this thing I’m kind of weird about. It has to do with my clothes. The thing is that I can only wear clothes that match my body’s cleanlines...

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Bittersweet

Posted on August 14, 2016 by noemikjames / 5 Comments

Tomorrow my daughter will start first grade and my son will go to preschool without a diaper. I’m not quite sure how that happened. Time marches forward. ...

Identity/Marriage/Parenting & Family

Back to Work

Posted on August 12, 2016 by noemikjames / 8 Comments

On Wednesday I officially go back to work. While I always feel a fair amount of regret that summer is ending, there is a tinge of relief lacing the disappointme...

Parenting & Family

Veep

Posted on August 11, 2016 by noemikjames / 8 Comments

So there is another thing that I did a few months ago and never wrote about… Last May I volunteered to be my daughter’s school’s PTA vice-pres...

Parenting & Family

A Great Deal

Posted on August 10, 2016 by noemikjames / 2 Comments

First off, the lice experts declared us clear! We supposed to do one last check in 5-7 days and then we should be good to go. Thank goodness, because today we s...

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