Author: noemikjames

I got a lot done today, and I’m feeling pretty productive right now. I also feel that I legitimately leveled up in my handy-woman-around-the-house role. W...

Thank you to those who reached out after my last post with resources and support. I really appreciate it. The weekend was a little better. My husband and I had ...

Sheltering in place is hard. Sheltering in place while working full time and also supervising distance learning for your kids is really hard. But the hardest th...

Our St. Louis plans were officially cancelled and our daughter’s Girl Scout sleep away camp the last week of summer was also called off, so our summer is ...

Being in my classroom today was a totally surreal experience. It was like walking through a time machine back into my normal life. Everything was where I left i...

Today I will do two normal things. Except they won’t feel normal anymore. They will be skewed by the new normal. In fact, these normal things will feel incredib...

This was a hard week. I cried a lot. It’s been a few weeks since I cried as much as I did this week. I’m so exhausted. I’m so tired of managin...

I wrote that post on Monday night. On Tuesday morning my husband threw out his back getting out of bed. The last 48 hours have felt like a marathon at sprint sp...

I’ve read enough articles with subtle, and less subtle, and straight up overt, messaging that I should take advantage of this upending of my life as an op...

Yesterday afternoon my husband and daughter were in the backyard getting some fresh air. My husband was cutting big branches from the trees that are pushing ove...