That was the answer I gave for so many years. Right after Callie was born and we spent months in the NICU. People would ask how she was doing, how we were holding up, if we needed anything. My answer…
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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Date Night is always my favorite night! Parenting is hard. Parenting with a child that has a disability is HARD. Finding time to reconnect with each other is vital and I can’t think of a better time to infuse some…
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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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We didn’t know what our journey would look like. We didn’t know that we would get the news we did. We didn’t know that we could be together while feeling desperately alone. We didn’t know that things would be this…
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“He signed up for this job.” That’s usually the rebuttal when you try to talk about the overwhelming responsibility police officers have to deal with. This is usually when someone with zero knowledge about police procedures tries to arm chair…
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We are coming up on our 12th Anniversary! It’s honestly hard to believe. There are some days I look at him and think we’ve barely even scratched the surface. In a “How can this man be real/I love him so…
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Babe– I know this was not the life that you thought it would be. Nowhere in your plan did a wife with a chronic illness come up I’m sure. I know sometimes it’s almost like our relationship has been an…
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None of it happened the way I thought it would. I thought I would be finished with college at 21. I thought I would be married at 23. Pregnant at 25 with our first baby (a boy). Pregnant at 26…
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That was the answer I gave for so many years. Right after Callie was born and we spent months in the NICU. People would ask how she was doing, how we were holding up, if we needed anything. My answer…
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Hi, I’m Jaime — writer, mother, storyteller, and the heart behind the blog. 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
