Author: noemikjames

Yesterday sucked. It sucked at work and it sucked at home. I went to the dojo and it felt like I shouldn’t be there. My husband is struggling with some very rea...

This week my daughter gets out early for conferences, so she has been taking the bus to swimming. Not having to drive her has been a gift – a gift of thre...

I’m in an irritable head space right now. I find myself being judgy, towards others and towards myself. I find myself muttering “it must be nice” a lot. So many...

Well, my mid-winter break is over. I pretty pleased by how it went. Some highlights: Things I didn’t get done: All in all, it was a pretty good break. A c...

*I had my last post titled “When all goes according to plan” (because it really felt like that trip was doing just that) but I changed it at the las...

SATURDAY Saturday went pretty darn well. We made it out of the house by 10:15 (my dream departure time was 9:30am). We didn’t hit too much traffic leaving the B...

This week at work has been very weird. Two classes were very easy; I only had a few students in each and I had a decent plan to do stuff with them. One class wa...

I swear it’s never my intention to just ghost y’all for so long. I clearly need some kind of posting schedule I’m at least attempting to stick...

{I wrote this on Saturday night, and I’m posting it on Monday morning. Apologies!} I was supposed to be hanging out with my girl friends tonight, while ou...

My husband and I have some serious work to do. Our kids are suddenly very busy (mostly our daughter) and our afternoons and weekends have become incredibly pack...