Halloween and Day of the Dead
At 11 and 14, my kids still like to participate in Halloween, although the ways they do are changing. They both wore costumes to school. The 11yo wore his Deadp...
Author: noemikjames
Five on Friday: November Must-dos (and NaBloPoMo! )
Ah! I’m so torn. Today is Nov 1, which is the first day of the month and the first day of NaBloPoMo, which I am enthusiastically participating in (sign up with ...
Gripes and Grumbles
Happy Halloween! I meant to post this yesterday but it didn’t happen. Par for the course around here lately. {I do plan on participating in NaBloPoMo this...
Seven (Smiles) on Sunday
This was going to be a Five on Friday post and then a Six on Saturday post and now I’m barely getting it up on Sunday night. Blerg. I need to find better ...
End of week update: Birthday weekend accomplished!
Oh wow, what a week. What a weekend! I’m so, so glad it’s over. Friday I was pretty zonked because I couldn’t fall asleep until 2am on Thursda...
Five on Friday: Progress made
Conversation with husband We never did actually write out our ideal weeks, but we thought about them enough to have a productive conversation about what we each...
Seven on Sunday: Enjoying and looking forward to
Thank you all for your comments on my last post. We still haven’t had our follow up conversation, but I shared an ideal week template with my husband and sugges...
Still struggling
October has not offered the relief I was hoping for, and earlier this week I kind of lost it. I cried. My husband and I had a fight. Two in fact. It sucked. I f...
Seven on Sunday: Struggle Bug Edition
Well, the first week of October was not at all what I was hoping for. I wanted October to be chill and it was the opposite of that, both literally and metaphori...
It sure doesn’t feel like fall
In fact, it feels like the hottest possible summer…in the desert. Because even the summer is not hot here, especially not as hot as it has been. Because it’s be...