What Katy Writes

Life changes so quickly.  Priorities can become fleeting memories depending on your circumstances. We are only three weeks into a new year and for this year and every year, I feel like my priorities are to simply spend as much time as humanly possible with those who mean the most to me.  Is there really anything more?  I want to be here to raise my son.  I want to support my husband.  I want to hang out with my parents, my siblings, my nieces and nephew.  I want to make time for those friends who have stood by Reid and I throughout the difficult year we just faced.  It looks like there could be significant difficulties in the year ahead as well.  Hopefully a lot of joy as well.  We are truly blessed to be surrounded by wonderful people, our families and close friends are truly so important to us.    I have spent a lot of my life being busy.  Busy with school and casual work and sp...

Right now as I write this, I am looking up at my baby boy happily playing on his own.  So immersed in his own little world, curiously turning the pages of his books, chewing on his Lego, crawling to his teddy bears and staring at them intently.  I would love to know what is running through his brain, how much he is learning when I am not present.  I have learned some hard lessons over the last week, it's probably been the hardest yet one of the most rewarding weeks of my life - I asked for help.  I really, truly, seriously needed help.  As Mums (most Mums I know anyway), we like to think we have it all under control, that we always know what's best - there is an inherent Mum sense that will always be able to tell what our baby wants and needs.  I think that's true to a point, but there is also a time when we need to accept that things aren't as they should be, that things could be better and maybe you can't do it alone.  That maybe it's ...