The weight of the unarticulated
Our new TV imploded so we haven’t had one for a week. I wanted to watch something on the iPad tonight but my husband wasn’t interested in “hud...
Author: noemikjames
Mini-retreat
Tomorrow I am leading a four-hour PTA mini-retreat for the members of the board. Our board meetings are on the 4th Thursday of the month, so we lost November...
30 posts in 30 days
Well, I didn’t manage to post every day but I did post 30 times in the last 30 days. That’s something. Sure some of them were more whimper than bang...
Joy and the PTA
I wrote my “why” post about the PTA, in response to the comment that it seemed like a really joyless venture. Then I realized that in almost 2,000 w...
Quality time with my best girl
Today my in-laws picked up my son from school today (for the last time in three weeks; they leave for Texas again tomorrow) and my daughter and I got to spend t...
Christmas trees are expensive
They are also a total pain in the ass to put up. On a related note, I got way too big a tree this year. On another related note, if you love your Christmas tree...
9:49am
9:49am. That’s when I woke up this morning. It was glorious. Each set of grandparents had a kid and we got an impromptu date night last night. I ran some ...
Go see Coco
We saw Coco on Wednesday. It was f*cking fantastic. I can’t tell you how excited I am that a huge studio like Disney/Pixar spent years, and hundreds of mi...
Uninspired
I’m feeling uninspired. To write here. To make the calendars. To design the ornament. But all these things have to get done. Sometimes when you push throu...
Calendar Time
It’s that time of year again, when I go through all the pictures from the last 12 months and make a new calendar. It’s actually kind of perfect that...