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Full Circle

Posted on March 14, 2016 by noemikjames / 12 Comments

{So this post started one way, and ended another. And the way it ended felt pretty profound. It may seem like I figured all this stuff out already– I̵...

Identity/Parenting & Family

Perspective

Posted on February 5, 2016 by noemikjames / 10 Comments

I’ve been struggling to force my thoughts into neat little lines, and the final middle class post remains unwritten. I think it’s okay though. I thi...

Life/Parenting & Family

Time

Posted on January 15, 2016 by noemikjames / 20 Comments

Holy shit, life has been busy. Lately the lack time has felt severe, to the point that I start to get panicky thinking of all the things I have to do and how fe...

Financial Security/Life/Marriage/Parenting & Family

Playing Catch-up

Posted on December 29, 2015 by noemikjames / 21 Comments

Well, a belated Merry Christmas to you and yours. I hope you had a great day, whether you celebrate or not, and that you have plans to celebrate the New Year in...

Financial Security/Parenting & Family

Teaching What I Don’t Know

Posted on December 23, 2015 by noemikjames / 26 Comments

Only two more days until Christmas. Thank gawd. I don’t think my daughter and I can last any longer. My daughter LOVES stuff, toys, books, jewelry, art su...

Marriage/Parenting & Family

Panic and Dread

Posted on December 16, 2015 by noemikjames / 37 Comments

On Sunday night my husband alerted me to the fact that he would not be home before bedtime one night this week, and I promptly had a panic attack. A real, legit...

Parenting & Family

Some parents have it really, REALLY hard

Posted on November 20, 2015 by noemikjames / 12 Comments

I spent a lot of the first years of my daughter’s life carefully broaching the topic of behavior. I hardly ever came out and said how hard it was for me t...

No-additives Diet/Parenting & Family/Sensory Processing Disorder

Convergence Insufficiency

Posted on November 11, 2015 by noemikjames / 20 Comments

Today my daughter had an eye appointment that I made almost three months ago. It was with an ophthalmologist who specializes in diagnosing and treating converge...

Parenting & Family

Week Two

Posted on November 5, 2015 by noemikjames / 6 Comments

We’re almost done with our son’s second week of daycare. Things are getting better. He doesn’t cry as hard, or long, when my daughter and I le...

Parenting & Family

Day One is Done

Posted on October 27, 2015 by noemikjames / 16 Comments

Well, we made it. Drop off was kind of a shit show. We got there right as another kid who started last week was being dropped off. He was very upset and cried f...

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