Bittersweet
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. ...
Author: noemikjames
Back to Work
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...
Veep
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...
A Great Deal
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...
The Moment of Truth
Tomorrow (Tuesday) morning my kids and I head to the local (ridiculously expensive) lice-experts to get our heads checked. The checks are free (during a short t...
Kind of Killing It
I have one week until my daughter’s school starts on Monday 8/15. That Wednesday is my first required professional development day. We’re in the fin...
Change of Plans
I am a bit of a type A personality. When it comes to the precious moments when I can actually get things done, I like to have a plan that uses those moments wis...
My New Ride
In early May (the weekend of Mother’s Day, in fact), I made a massive purchase that I never wrote about. I was nervous to write about it here because I...
BLOGorado 2016
I spent five days in Colorado last week (two weeks ago?), with three women I know intimately through blogging, but had never actually met. We made plans, months...
Summer’s End
I’m back. I’ve been back for four days, actually. I returned very late Sunday night to a house in full quarantine and spent Monday caring for my sic...