Help Me with Accountability
I’m going to ask you all for a favor. I want to hold myself more accountable for my spending–both sticking to my no-shopping ban over the summer and...
Author: noemikjames
Financial Aspirations (or a Lack Thereof)
I have been thinking a lot about my financial aspirations, or my lack thereof. The truth is, I don’t think much about where I want to be financially. I fi...
The Budget
So I haven’t written much about my budget lately. That is because I’ve been doing a pretty piss poor job of sticking to it. I have been doing better...
A Simpler Summer
I have one more week of school and then I’m home for the summer. Nine weeks, with both kids. I don’t think there is a way for me to accurately conve...
Stories
Someone here recommended Crucial Conversations and it recently became available from my library. It’s a really incredible book about how to best execute t...
Disintegration
I’m sorry I went dark for a week. I’ve been struggling. Struggling with what I wrote about in my past post. Struggling with the fact that I wrote it...
Parental Instincts
I read more parenting books than most people do. I always have. I welcome hearing the perspectives of people who have professional experience with many families...
When It Doesn’t Work
I have read a LOT of parenting books in my life and while I’ve liked some ideas from all of them there hasn’t been one book or author or overarching...
Check it off
I am not good at a lot of things, but one thing I am good at is getting an obscene amount of stuff done in a short amount of time. Especially when I’m rea...
What We Need
I came into my relationship with my husband (almost ten years ago!) a pretty needy person. I wanted to be with my him all the time and got frustrated when his m...