Welcome, mama! Something brought you to this page and you’re wondering how I ended up here. Truthfully, me too! Here is a little bit more about me.
My name is Kaylee. I am married to my best friend and living in our dream location, the mountains. We have a beautiful daughter who is almost one year old. My desire is to focus on her more than my current employment. So, in a way, this blog is for her.
Where it all started…
I graduated from college in 2018 with a degree in general psychology in hopes of running head first into the field, changing lives, and becoming a well known psychologist and author. I continued on to earn my master’s degree in Developmental Psychology in the spring of 2020 (just before the pandemic stopped me from doing so!).
I moved back home and was well on my way to becoming a Board Certified Behavior Analyst (I had about 1 year left of training before sitting for the exam). March 2021, I decided to quit my job after 3 years of working in the field with children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. I was beginning to realize that this particular job I had focused on and studied for throughout my graduate program was not what I wanted to do for the rest of my life.
I began my new job in April 2021 at a local community college as their registrar and student support – and in September 2021, I quit that job.
By this point, you’re probably saying “great, she’s a quitter.” That’s the thing, I’m not. Never have been. So, I knew something wasn’t right.
I got married in 2021 and transitioned to working 25 hours a week for a data entry company while spending the rest of my time figuring out how to be a wife and what was missing from my career.
Where we are now..
In 2023, I had my daughter and my life really began to feel like it had a true purpose. This was my career. At the time of this post, I am still working 25 hours a week at my data entry job while taking care of my daughter throughout the day. I’m meant to be, and called to be a mom – I have no doubt about this. However, motherhood, as most of us know, is no walk in the park.
I spend most of my days worrying, researching, reading, thinking about how to care for my daughter and what is right for her. Many times I have been at my wits end trying to figure out what is the right thing for her. There are so many opinions, research articles, blogs, reels, TikTok videos, you name it. We live in a world of information overload – and this is what I felt – overloaded. With encouragement from my husband while I was in tears, I realized I didn’t need to follow someone else’s ideas and books to a “T.” Our children, and ourselves, were created to be individuals. We are all different and require different needs to thrive. So, I realized why stress over what someone else is doing that I’m not doing? I need to just keep it simple. Focus and care for my specific, individual child and what she needs.
So, mama, will you join me in keeping it simple?
We’ll do this together. Through all the laughter and tears that come with motherhood – let’s step back together, and keep it simple.