Would you wear these shoes to work?
As the purse strings tighten I’m being forced to determine what my standards are. ADDED: Perhaps it isn’t obvious from the pictur...
Author: noemikjames
The Cycle Continues
Last night much frustration and resentment that I’d been trying to keep to myself bubbled over and said a bunch of shit in entirely the wrong way and now ...
12 weeks
We attempted our first at-home vision therapy today. It’s going to be a looooooong 12 weeks.
I am thankful for…
The other day my daughter left her blankie at home and we didn’t notice until her class was walking into the school. When she realized she didn’t ha...
Some parents have it really, REALLY hard
I spent a lot of the first years of my daughter’s life carefully broaching the topic of behavior. I hardly ever came out and said how hard it was for me t...
Disconnected
The app for the reader I use is down. It automatically updated a few days ago and now when I try to open it, it immediately crashes. I haven’t really been...
Discomfort is okay
I turn the shower off while I’m washing my hair. I use baking soda instead of shampoo so the process of applying the water with baking soda to my scalp an...
Sub Plans Suck
One of the worst things about being a teacher is how fucking hard it is to take a day. I’m trying to think of another profession where being out is such a...
Financially Fucked
So, remember how I said it was going to be tight for a little while? Well, it turns out that it’s going to be more than tight. We are kind of financially ...
The Weirdness of Social Media
I’ve burnt a lot of bridges in my seven years of blogging. Some of them went up spectacularly for everyone to see. Others flared in the night, when no one...