I never thought I’d be the parent who overscheduled her child– dragging them from activity to activity after long days at school. I promised myself that Callie didn’t need any extra enrichment outside of being a kid, life itself would be…
As a parent of a disabled child, I sometimes feel like I’m drowning. Ok, a lot of the times I feel like I’m drowning. Juggling doctor’s appointments, physical therapy sessions, petitioning insurance companies to cover Callie’s equipment, multiple practices with…
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Did y’all know that you don’t have to participate in every argument you’re invited to? Every tantrum, every fit, or every rude snarky comment? WHO KNEW???? Because I sure as heck didn’t. I figured when my kid was arguing with…
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Self care is often misunderstood as being selfish. And as a parent to a child with a disability, sometimes self care is the absolute last thing on my mind. I’m too busy focusing on physical therapies sessions, ordering prosthetic leg…
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For someone with a disability (or a parent to someone with a disability), the relationships we have developed with Callie’s doctors have been paramount to her success. And honestly, for our family, it feels like we’ve seen SO MANY doctors…
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Summertime was one of my FAVORITE times of the year when I was younger. Growing up, I would anxiously await the end of the school year, marking the days off on the calendar until summer vacation started. Summer meant…
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I’ve been on a health journey for a while. Honestly, I’ve always been fairly healthy but the past year I’ve really kicked it up a notch and I feel FANTASTIC. I wanted to share what’s worked for me in case…
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Before Callie was born, I didn’t think something like what we experienced could happen to people like “us.” I thought grief, heartbreak, loss, and gut wrenchingly hard things happened to OTHER people. Those hard things happened to someone else’s friend,…
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What’s kind of crazy to me is….. I dreamed of the life I have now. I prayed and I wished and hoped for EXACTLY what I have now. But years ago, the “picture” of who and what I was praying…
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The moment is here!!! Here is the commercial that Callie got to be a part of–and hands down one of the best experiences! For those that don’t know Adrianne Haslet (go follow her on all social…
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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
