First, let me thank everyone for the overwhelming response to our blog “Friendship Break Ups.” I read all the notes and DMs and am truly thankful for such a sweet and uplifting community. I wanted to take a minute to…
Fear, shock, anger, grief, sadness, and devastation were big themes in the moments following our daughter’s birth. Callie was born on Halloween. She arrived two months ahead of her due date with a surprise diagnosis of Tetralogy of Fallot and…
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She was my person. We’d been best friends for ten years. And we’d done everything in those ten years together–picked up the pieces of each other after heartbreaks, danced the night away at bars until we stumbled out at 2AM…
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The leaves are falling, the sweaters are coming out (just for the early morning hours if you live in Texas!), and the fall-themed treats and decorations are hitting the stores. Fall is FINALLY here!!! As the days grow shorter (and colder…
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As a mama of a little girl who wears a prosthetic leg, we struggled when she was younger to find pants that would fit over her prosthetic leg. Invariably, her pants would rip at the knee where her hinge was…
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There’s something magical about this time of year: the nostalgia of back-to-school vibes, pumpkins on every doorstep, the hint of crisp weather, and sunsets so pretty you’d think they were fake. I love fall, but after the initial excitement of…
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For years, I thought I was the absolute queen of healthy boundaries. I had gotten MUCH better at saying no over the last few years, so I figured I had it all down (because I genuinely thought that’s all a…
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A few weeks ago, my therapist had me write a letter to myself. One that I wished I could have opened up and read shortly after Callie’s birth. She said to fill it with things I wish I had known,…
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I wrote a blog post earlier this summer called “Ways I’m Romanticizing our Lives This Summer ” and y’all LOVED it. So I figured it was time to bring out it’s sequel especially considering my obvious, enduring, perpetual and borderline…
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I try to keep my phone away when I am engaged with Callie, meal time is a “no phone zone” and I am pretty laser-focused during my work day due to the nature of my job. However, a year ago…
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Hi, I’m Jaime — writer, mother, storyteller, and the heart behind The Wildflower Edit. For nearly a decade, I wrote online as The Princess and the Prosthetic, sharing my daughter’s journey with disability and the lessons our family learned along the way. It was a beautiful season — full of advocacy, connection, and community — but as my daughter grew older, I felt a shift. She deserved more autonomy. More privacy. More room to decide how she shows up in the world. And I realized something else: My own story was expanding too. Motherhood was still here. Disability was still here. But so were grief, healing, womanhood, nervous system care, feminine energy, homemaking, identity, softness… the fuller, deeper pieces of life that were ready to be spoken aloud. Whether you come for the cozy routines, the motherhood reflections, the disability advocacy, or the soft life inspiration — thank you for choosing to share this space with me. Pour a warm drink. Settle in. Let’s grow a life that feels like you again.
Jaime
