I love Valentine’s Day. A whole day to tell people I love them? Pink and red everything? Hearts and flowers? Yes, please. I tend to go a bit overboard on Valentine’s Day with gifts but can you blame me? I’ve…
Closing out 2020 will look markedly different for so many people–no more crowds in Time Square, no more jam packed parties, and no large family celebrations. We are opting to stay home this NYE and do a “Cozy Glam” theme….
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Sharing our visual “scrapbook” for 2020. One of my goals for this blog is for it to be a virtual scrapbook of our adventures for Callie. Something that she can look back on and be reminded of all the love,…
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Dear Mama, I have a special job for you. I’m going to send you a warrior princess. I’m going to make her look like her Daddy. Have your nose and the same sunshine spun through her hair that you do. …
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Wow! We got such an amazing response on our Adaptive Gift Guide! Thank you so much for all your sweet notes–we are so happy that sharing those things helped out a ton of people. We wanted to keep sharing resources…
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Things We Wish People Knew about Differently Abled People like Callie….. 1. Please don’t stare. A smile and a wave is much better. Staring hurts her feelings. 2. Callie can do whatever she wants to do–swimming, horseback riding, dancing. She…
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Sharing some of our favorite inclusive and adaptive gifts for the little warrior princess in your life! We are big fans of Zappos Adaptive that carries single shoes and allows it’s customer’s to order different shoe sizes for each…
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Someone asked me that the other day because I remarked that I was struggling with some grief about Callie’s leg and health issues. I’m 100% sure it was triggered by her recent knee surgery. “Why aren’t you over that by…
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I’m feeling extremely overwhelmed right now. Callie’s upcoming knee surgery. Trying to plan, anticipate, and schedule all the things for it especially during Covid. I just started on a new insulin pump. I’m working on a ton of high level…
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Life can be hard….. But it also can be beautiful. You can have days where wallow in grief. Drowning trying to keep your head above water. Dreading each morning that you have to wake up and face another day. But…
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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
