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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By most accounts and statistics, our marriage should have deteriorated already. A child with special needs? A wife with a chronic disease? A husband with career in one of the most stressful professions? You would expect we would have failed. …
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One of the things that James and I try to do at least 4 times a year is a mini get away! It’s so important to us to schedule time together to recharge, reconnect, and relax together. It’s one of…
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This piece is based on a love letter that James wrote to me when we first started dating. We took pieces of the letter and created this piece. For most of my life, my diabetes was a…
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Hi Y'all! I’m Jaime, a proud working mama, author, girl boss and wifey to an ultra-adorable husband. I am a huge book nerd, I drink coffee like my life depends on it, and run on dry shampoo and Amazon Prime. Leopard print is my favorite color. I am a story teller at heart and this blog is a virtual scrapbook of our crazy beautiful life. I'm a Type One Diabetic and our little warrior princess Callie is a lower limb amputee. By sharing how we’ve chosen to flourish in the garden we’ve been planted in, we hope you can take some small nuggets of hope, inspiration, and laughter. We are so grateful that you’ve found us—welcome to the fam. We embrace our perfectly imperfect lives and don’t let the doctor’s appointments, spreadsheets, speaking engagements, 10th birthday parties to plan, housework or date nights overwhelm us. Those things are just the beautiful reminders of all the blessings in our lives. Read More
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