With Friends
After a weird and at times trying conversation with my husband in the car, we are with friends tonight. Our kids are home along and I appreciate this very much....
Author: noemikjames
Emotional Heavy Lifting
My husband has been dealing with what we think is clinical depression for about a year now. Some days/weeks/months are better than others. Some are worse. We’re...
Doing Future Me a Solid
Today was all about helping future me out. I went to work to get some stuff done so that next Monday morning me was not totally overwhelmed (just normal overwhe...
Cat-proofing the Christmas tree
Today was another nice day of break. After two days of gray and rain, the weather today was beautiful. I took my son and his friend (who spent the night) to the...
The reality of it
It can be easy to see a one-week break as an opportunity to do ALL THE THINGS and hard to remember that life still has to happen, even if formal work doesn’t. I...
Five on a Friday
Five things on a Friday seems to be popular around these part of the blogosphere. I’ve never done one before, but I think I can probably figure it out. 😉 So fiv...
Limping to the finish line
Today was a rough day at work. The kind of day where I sat with the heels of my palms in my eyes for long stretches. So many students making poor choices. So mu...
Should I stay or should I go?
Go to martial arts I mean. And I really struggle with it sometimes. I am VERY good at sticking with my workout routine. I work out at least four times a week an...
Big and small wins
Sorry for my pity party toddler tantrum last night. After I pressed publish I sat down and graded the fronts of 1.5 classes’ assessments AND finished the backsi...
I don’t wanna
I’m not in a great head space. This week is going to be a tremendous slog, and I just want it to be over. I fear I will push a bunch of work to the break and th...