by Kirsty | Nov 15, 2012 | Carer, Mental Health, Parents, Relationships
One of my colleagues at work calls me Pollyanna. He thinks I’m too positive. He has even jokingly (I hope) said on occasion that my easy-going nature makes him sick. Maybe I can seem too happy, too nice. But I figure that life is too short to dwell on the bad...
by Kirsty | Jul 26, 2012 | Mental Health, Parents, Special Needs
I’m a little blocked when it comes to the blog lately. I have no shortage of ideas swirling through my brain but I can make none of them stick. I could complain about how busy I am right now. How work is manic and home is chaotic. How I seem to never have a...
by Kirsty | Jul 16, 2012 | Mental Health, Parents, Special Needs
Sometimes I feel suffocated. Sometimes I feel trapped by everything I am and everything I think I need to do. Sometimes the sheer weight of obligation and expectation and responsibility feels too much to bear. Sometimes I want to escape. I want to quit everything. I...
by Kirsty | Jan 6, 2012 | Mental Health, Parents, Relationships
There are more times than not when I feel too tired to bother being social or to organise get togethers. I think we all feel that way sometimes after a big day wrangling kids or battling away at work. Problem for me, I feel like that all the time and I have gotten...
by Kirsty | Oct 25, 2011 | Education, Mental Health, Parents, Special Needs
I’m feeling for my boy at the moment. He is so very anxious and tense and scared. He is preparing to transition to his local mainstream school next year (check out Part 1 and Part 2 of my series on The Road to Mainstream) and it is really, really worrying him...
by Kirsty | Aug 12, 2011 | Mental Health, Parents, Relationships
I wrote a post recently about feeling human again, about taking time-out from being a wife and mum and just being me for a while. And it got me thinking about how very grateful I am for having the chance to have some time-out. The chances don’t come along every...
