Author: noemikjames

School starts next week and I feel like I’m standing at a precipice. I’m working frantically to put up some guardrails but I don’t have the resources I need and...

Well, I got through the week. It turned out my son’s dentist appointment is actually next Wednesday, and I accidentally turned off the recording of the pr...

Well, I’m officially in it. And I have less than five hours of kid-free time each day since my son’s martial arts camp is really short. Today I film...

There has been some press lately on academic pods – families pooling their resources to provide support or instruction during the pandemic. Some of these ...

And before I knew it, the summer was over. Next week I start work, for real. Well, for semi-real. It’s all professional development, but I’m also pr...

Every morning my daughter’s camp sends a link to a google form that I have to fill out. The third line is a morning temperature check. We also had to trac...

This is a really good read about not just the current child care crisis, but the long term implications of women being forced out of the job market in the short...

{First I wanted to thank people for the supportive comments yesterday. I didn’t expect that post to be linked to elsewhere and I didn’t expect so ma...

I have had a lot of complicated feelings about returning to school in the fall. At the beginning of the summer I was all about going back – for both me an...

Our district pivoted to starting the school year with six weeks of distance learning. They sent out their announcement yesterday. I am relieved that we know how...