The wait
Lest you think, from my last post, that I’m capable of taking all this one como si nada, please know that I can’t. 48 hours in and my house is a dis...
Author: noemikjames
One for the books
Well, today was one for the books. Without my husband the afternoon was an insane game of Tetris. But I made it work! – At 2pm I left to pick up my daught...
Silly me
I thought I’d be writing a post today about what I did and did not end up doing this week. Instead I’m writing a post about how my husband just test...
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...
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...