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...
Author: noemikjames
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...
Handicapped
I spent nearly a decade, from my late teens and almost through my twenties, in a fog of depression. Some of those years it was so severe as to be debilitating. ...
Conflicted
I’ve been dealing with some stuff on the friendship front that I’ve really wanted to work through here but I feel that I can’t. I don’t ...