Retooling expectations
Yesterday was a success. The kids did great on the bike ride. They were shaky to start but they found their footing and went for it. They made it all the way to...
Author: noemikjames
Me being a curmudgeon at the start of summer
{I had titled this “ping pong thoughts at the start of summer” but by the end if felt I should change the title. And since the line-through-text for...
Last Day of School
Well, I did it. I made it to the last day of the school year. At 12:15pm today I will say goodbye to my last class of students, then go to the 8th grade brunch ...
The home stretch
Yesterday we threw our daughter a birthday party in the park. Make your own boba and bagels for 16 kids. We had to make pretty much everything for the boba bar ...
Bummer (or on not managing disappointment well)
Today I was supposed to go to my first book club with a friend. I have been plowing through the book all week, trying to finish in time, I was nervous, but exci...
Lucky 13
I meant to write all week, several different posts, but now it’s Friday and part of each of them will have to end up here. {Or not, I ended up just writing one,...
Woman foolishly thinks…?
But it really does have to be better in one week right? Definitely in two… I can’t believe last weekend was the long weekend, and I spent much of Wednesday in t...
Not a stroke, but maybe a silent migraine?
I spent several hours in the ER today. A couple hours in the waiting room, and one in the actual ER. I was there because the advice nurse told me I had to go. B...
But…
It was a nice weekend, but I it wasn’t long enough. I went to sparring and high belt class, but I felt nauseous after all the rolling we did so I didnR...
How is it only Thursday?!
This morning I put this on my daughter’s Bentgo box. I was so sure it was Friday! The Bentgo box got all the way into her backpack before I realized my mistake....