About a month ago I hired a virtual assistant to help me out with things here at NYAM. She completely overhauled my Pinterest page, and she totally manages that for me now. I also have her scheduling previously written posts to Facebook. Facebook is the biggest source of traffic to my website, and traffic to […]
Lessons I've Learned
Monday Is The New Sunday
Now that it’s October we have entered swim meet season which means that 1-2 weekends per month will be spent at the pool. Number 6 also started wrestling this year, and he will have wrestling meets — do they call them meets? or are they matches? — on the weekends starting in a month or […]
Clean Sheet Night
Back when I lived in Pennsylvania I had a friend who was also a teacher and she was about 10 years older than me. We were at a party or something and we were talking and I remember her telling me that she had a rule about no sex on clean sheet night. Meaning the […]
Whatever Makes Her Happy
Number 7 has always been a kid who knows what she wants. And once she decides what she wants, her mind is made up and there is nothing you can do to change it. NOTHING. She has always had some pretty strong opinions when it comes to what she wears. She used to love dressing […]
A Moment Of Judgment
One of the reasons I have been MIA the last couple of days is because on Sunday and Monday I was away with Number 4 at an open house for a boarding school she really wants to go to starting next year. More on that in another blog post, but let me tell you that […]
You Are One Decision Away From Everything
Today was one of those days where nothing went the way I thought it was going to go when the day began. When I first started writing this post I listed all the things that went much differently than I had originally anticipated. But it was boring and confusing, and really the details aren’t all […]
