02/07/2024
Hi. It’s me, Jaimie, the photographer behind this space. The adorable wild child is my daughter, Gigi. She is my everything and my number one priority in life. You hear this phrase “mom-guilt” and like, you get it, but you don’t truly realize the depths of how consuming the guilt can be until you have a kid because most of the time there’s just no way to escape it. Every day, I do my best to be the best mom for her; to be her safe space; to teach her to be the best human she can be. I think the difference between raising children in your twenties and raising a child in your forties is exactly that: a lifetime. I’ve had twenty years of experiencing the full spectrum of human existence. I’ve grown. I’ve had more happen to me in 10 years than some people have in a lifetime and because of that I’ve gained a completely different perspective of my life and myself. I’ve held the hands’ of my father, my first husband, and strangers as they died. I rode out a tornado under a picnic table in an outdoor pavilion with two 12 year old boys whose names I don’t know. I’ve been caught in flash floods and massive flooding. I’ve started over more than once, and what it’s taken me years to realize is that starting over is a thousand times harder than sticking with the familiar. I get asked what keeps me going at this (photography) after so long and it’s passion. And the older I get, the more passionate I get about making genuine connections with people so we can have a place of trust and respect so we can dig deep and be vulnerable because that’s where the magic is - in feeling free to be ourselves. // If you’ve ever wondered if I’m the kind of mom who takes lots of amazing photos of their kid, I’m not. I’m the phone camera mom. Fortunately, I have incredibly talented friends like to take photos of me and her together.