This Week
This week is crazy. I have something big after school every day this week. I’m struggling with pick-up on two of the days. Sometimes I really miss my in-l...
Author: noemikjames
What living in a small house is really like
A new season of Tiny House Hunters is on Hulu. The first season was only two episodes, so I was excited to see that a bunch more were available. I watch shows l...
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...
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 ...