Our First Financial Success
Tonight our PTA is hosting a Parents’ Night Out to raise money. Parents pay $20 a kid ($15 for a sibling) and get 3.5 hours of childcare. We take them to ...
Author: noemikjames
Parenting Doubts
{First of all, a big thank you to everyone who left kind, encouraging words on my last post. It does help to know why you all read… Moving forward I hope ...
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I wonder a lot why I keep writing here. I wish I had more to offer. Yes, I believe my story is valuable. I love reading other people’s stories, and it see...
2nd Day Back
Thank you everybody who commented on my last post. Now I’m even more excited about my trip! It was so awesome to hear that people have been (or lived) the...
2018 Destination: Nicaragua
It is still my plan to live abroad, in a Spanish speaking country, with my kids for a year or two. I almost wrote “goal,” but the words we use are i...
Goodbye Winter Break
Today is technically the last day of winter break (the last day I actually get off). I must say, it was a pretty great two weeks. I actually love when Christmas...
Revisiting my 2017 Goals
So I was feeling really “meh” about making resolutions, and/or setting goals for this year, and then I remembered the goals I wrote out for 2017. I ...
New year, same shit
So, 2018 is finally here. May it be less of a raging dumpster fire than 2017 was. Seriously, 2017 was a really shit year. And I didn’t even have it that b...
Ending the year with intention
When I saw this post a couple of weeks ago, I knew I wanted to answer the questions for myself, in hopes of ending 2017 on a thoughtful note. It’s easy to...
Anticipation Hangover
Well, the big day came and went, and I find myself in a pretty intense anticipation hangover. I sometimes don’t realize how much I’m relying on the ...