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Beautifully-Imperfect, Casper, WY (2026)

12/14/2025

🫶A note to my children and all the children struggling in accepting themselves.

🤫I see myself in my children.

🫠They think they have all these weird quirks that make them so different(that I possibly couldn’t understand) or make them feel even broken within some of their “awkward” traits.

🫣I see myself in them when I was their age, I see myself in them with who I am today. I see my weird and sometimes uncomfortable quirks within them.
🤷‍♀️The shyness, the social anxiety(I know that may shock a lot of you but I’m actually very uncomfortable socially), my social overstimulation, my texture sensitivities, the anxiety I get to accomplish most things(which is probably also shocking to a lot of ppl), the lack of emotional expression and so much more.

🤷‍♀️Some days I cannot hide my “weirdness” and I keep to myself so others don’t see my “off”, extra “weird” days. But I’ll shine on the days I feel more “normal”. I don’t love that about myself but I have learned to embrace it-I am me.
🥰Those who see me for me-choose to accept all my “unusual behaviors” even when they don’t fully understand.

🥰But knowing i persevere everyday, i have grown through it, and keep pushing through-gives me confidence that they will be ok within their perfectly-imperfect selves.
😁They are still young-learning to navigate outside the “normal” box.

🫣Are any of us “normal”?!! 🤣🤷‍♀️

👉It took me a long time and honestly; I’m still learning, too.

🤔Some habits, characteristics and behaviors are probably inherited via dna and some are probably learned behavior-let mom guilt sink in with that realization 🤣.
But, they and we-are exactly who the world needs us to be.

To all the kids, teenagers and young adults:

💪Be strong my littles
💕You are not broken or flawed
🤗Some of this gets easier
😬There will always be uncomfortable moments but keep pushing through-don’t isolate yourself from the world.
❣️Not everyone will understand you-you only need those who do.
❣️Find your confidence in BEING YOU!

✨Keep shining my beautiful people

🌸Where flowers bloom, so does hope”🌺

12/02/2025

No one wants to be the sick girl.

No one grows up imagining their body will turn into a full-time job, a mystery, or an enemy they have to negotiate with every single day.

We had plans. Goals. A whole timeline of who we thought we’d become.

But chronic illness has a way of rearranging everything without asking permission.

And suddenly, the life you once dreamed of gets replaced with a new kind of dream… one only sick people understand.

Because healthy people dream in milestones, vacations, promotions, and adventures.

And people like us?

Our dreams shift…not because they’re smaller, but because they’re rooted in what matters most.

We start dreaming in essentials. In presence. In the kind of well-being that money can’t buy and hustle can’t create.

We dream of the life we want to fully live… not just rush through. We dream about waking up with energy. We dream about having a clear mind. We dream about simply feeling “normal” again…whatever that even means now.

Our “hope list” becomes things most people don’t even realize are privileges…a morning without pain…a day without dizziness…a week without a flare…a body that doesn’t betray us.

And while we hold onto those tiny hopes, we also carry the awareness that things may never go back to how they were.

We grieve the person we used to be… even while we’re fighting to love the person we’re becoming.

And here’s the part no one really talks about…

Chronic illness, for all the pain and chaos it brings, also cracks you open in ways that create a different kind of beauty.

It slows life down enough for you to see what truly matters.

It softens your heart in places you didn’t know needed softening.

It deepens relationships in a way that “healthy life” rarely demands.

Because when you’re sick, you learn who loves you in the quiet ways…who shows up when nothing about you is shiny or easy…who sits with you in the heaviness…who stays gentle on the days you’re running on fumes.

Illness has given me and my spouse a kind of intimacy, depth, and meaning that most couples never touch…not because they can’t, but because life never forces them to slow down long enough to find it.

There’s a different kind of love that grows in the hard places. A tender, sacred, soul-level love built in the in-between moments…the ER nights, the calm-before-a-flare mornings, the “you rest, I’ve got you” moments that feel small but mean everything.

It’s a strange gift, this life. Not one we would’ve chosen…but one that still offers pockets of beauty most people will never experience.

A kind of beauty born from truth, vulnerability, and a love that survives what should have broken it.

No one chooses this life. But it chooses us and that’s a truth we learn to face without letting it swallow us.

Because even sick girls have an insane amount of resilience. We still love deeply. We still show up for our people. We still find joy in the smallest pockets of our days.

We still laugh. We still try. We still hope.

And somewhere in the middle of all the symptoms, sadness, strength, and survival… we realize something powerful….

We didn’t get weaker. We didn’t lose ourselves. We didn’t become victims.

We became warriors in bodies that don’t play fair.

So no, no one wants to be the sick girl.

But if this is the life we were handed, you better believe we’re going to live it with grit, with grace, and with a level of courage most people will never understand.

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11/16/2025

“Being a mom is wild.
You’re the chef, the therapist, the Uber driver, the accountant, the detective, the referee, and the designated “finder of the things nobody else even tried to look for.”

And you know what?
We’re out here doing it with a messy bun, a half-charged phone, unmatched socks, and a prayer.

So shoutout to all the moms who are running on caffeine, determination, and whatever mysterious superpower lets us keep going when we have absolutely nothing left in the tank.” -ashlay Soto

08/27/2025

😬Mom Life with Older Kids

😌Most of us LOVE being a mom
We absolutely wouldn’t change it for the world. I know I wouldn’t.

🥰It gave me purpose, taught me things I wouldn’t have learned otherwise and so much more.

🫣Some moms are better at balancing it all.
🤷‍♀️I’m not that mom.
🤯I’ve hyper focused on the day to day needs and all the future needs and planning and prepping for today and all of tomorrows.
🤔What does that mean? It means I didn’t have time or make time for my own interests. My brain was so busy plotting and planning for every single move. I couldn’t break the focus.

😊I didn’t lose myself, I found myself in ways I needed to.
🥰I found myself loving human beings that need and deserve all I could give.
🙃It wasn’t always enough but that’s part of being a real human.

😳Parenting older kids is different. 🤩You’re watching them spend less time with you, watching them become their own person with their own knowledge, views, opinions and so much more. It’s incredibly exciting.
😯It’s also terrifying.
👎Where do us parents fit in now? 🤞How do they need us? How do we support them yet let them fly?
🤷‍♀️How do we fill our new time without them?

🫣Finding the balance of letting them figure it out and help vs not to help-is a little soul crushing. Even just thinking about future instances that haven’t even happened but you know you’re going to have to let them struggle through some experiences for their own good. I mean, to a certain capacity.

😁But I’m here to say that I’m looking forward to learning again. Learn about things I forgot I enjoyed. Learn about things I didn’t realize I enjoyed….

👏Don’t feel guilty for adjusting to the changes and rediscovering you.

🫶You’ll always be their mom but you are also more than just a mom. (I say this as I realize, idk who I am outside of being a mom). 🤣 I suppose I’m about to figure it out 🤣

Keep working through the motions of life. It’s always changing.

“ flowers bloom, so does hope”🌸

08/03/2025

“You will not be perfect. You are human, not a robot.” 🤖

Be….

Beautifully-Imperfectly, you. 🥰

Learn from it, grow from it, change where you fell short; however, you’ll fall short again. 🧐🙃

I fall short everyday 🤫🤷‍♀️
Within conversation, lack of conversation, work, parenting, patience, planning and so much more.

Keep trying your best. You’re not a robot. 🙌

“Where flowers bloom, so does HOPE” 🌺

06/02/2025

🤩When you feel good…. Life just hits different-do it with no shame

🫣Coming out of a 6 week full on flare up and I just feel good. Finally!

😕If you struggle with any form of chronic illness; you understand.

🤷‍♀️We can do everything right:
👍Healthy lifestyle
👍Healthy eating habits
👍Good sleep habits
🤔The list goes on

😩And it will still hit you like a freight train

😡It’s frustrating…. Infuriating at times and just down right awful. You feel defeated and sometimes you worry you’ll never feel “ok” again.

🤗Hang tight-the other side comes, eventually.

💪Stay strong warriors

🙌Definitely embrace those good days!

🌸”Where flowers bloom, so does hope”

04/17/2025

🏡Home is your safe place🫂

🥰Home is where you get to be flawed and not judged
🥰It’s where you get to unload your day as you wish-without judgement
🥰You get to look worn down and comfy
🥰You get to carry your big emotions without hesitation and learn how to navigate big emotions together
🥰Where you get to learn through your mistakes, safely
🥰Where you should feel and give the most love
❣️Home is a place where get to learn to be the best version of yourself

🥰Home is not a place to fear anything you say or do.

🤓Wherever “Home” is for you; make it the best, through it all.

🌸Where flowers bloom, so does hope”

04/08/2025

💪Failure is the best teacher

🌻Keep learning….

03/31/2025

🥰ALWAYS be KIND, but love YOURSELF enough to have LIMITS.

👚Giving the shirt off your back…
⚠️

🤷‍♀️I probably won’t be the person described as “she would give the shirt off her back for anyone”

🤫I used to be this person very much

🤯☕️As time has gone on; I’ve realized that being that person, contributed to my cup being extremely overfilled and eventually I cracked.

🚧Setting boundaries is the key to success in being a kind person within your limitations

🤔Will I still be the person known for kindness? Most likely; however, finding the boundaries I needed has allowed me to give to others and myself in a HEALTHY manner.

🥰ALWAYS be KIND, but love YOURSELF enough to have LIMITS.

🫶”Be the change you wish to see in the world”

03/26/2025

‼️”Everything happens for a reason”

❣️”Trust the process”

🫣Not getting what you want is usually setting you up for something you did not realize you wanted/needed/deserved, more.

Hang in there 🫶

“Where flowers bloom, so does hope”🌸

03/24/2025

🤷‍♀️No-one tells you-

😬that you’ll watch it all fall into place for so many others before it falls into place for yourself; some are incredibly deserving and simply reached the goals before you-clap for them 👏 🥰

🙄and some lack any effort at all and you’ll watch it get handed to them…

🫵Meanwhile, you’re working incredibly hard for it to come together for yourself.

🫣Maybe your patience needs tested…

💪Keep striving for greatness
💭Keep manifesting your dreams

✍️Your story is still being written

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