Welcome to Orange Blossoms & Eggs, where you'll find me celebrating the wins and laugh-crying through the mishaps life throws my way..
I'm Claire, a professional photographer and beach loving mom of 5 married to my own Bruce Wayne. Together we are living out my farm life dreams on a quarter acre HOA lot in Arizona.
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I’m 36.5 weeks pregnant! Which means, Baby Waite #5 will be joining our family in the very near future! It’s starting to get real people! I should probably think about packing the hospital bag. Maybe wash the cloth diapers? How about folding the baby clothes and moving them into a drawer instead of stacked […]
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Laundry and meal planning- two never-ending chores. Everyone needs clothes to wear and for some reason, everyone also wants to be fed. Three whole times a day! I’ve been a wife for 14 years, a mother for 12.5 and I’ve lived on my own since I was 18. Yet somehow, at 34, I am only […]
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Depending on how you look at it, the birth of Lincoln was either extremely long and drawn out or beyond fast and furious. His story begins unofficially on Wednesday, June 8, 2015, which was day one of my five days of prodromal labor. From Wednesday until Sunday, I lived life in one block of seemingly […]
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Tomorrow marks the beginning of the last 90 days 0f 2018. Kind of crazy to think about. On the one hand, 90 days feels like a long time. 90 days is so far away! But on the other- it’s basically almost Halloween, which means it’s Thanksgiving, which means it’s Christmas. Hello, 2019! Nice to see […]
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Scott and I met in September of 2003. I was a brand new Spartan at Michigan State University (Go Green!). He was serving a 2 year mission for our church. We ran into each other in the cereal aisle of the grocery store. He and his mission companion were shopping for Special K with Red […]
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I never planned to be a dance mom. Now, I’m not saying that as a bad thing at all! It just wasn’t in my plans. I didn’t dance, none of my sisters danced. I don’t know anything about the dance world. Swimming, golf, tennis, even soccer- yes! Dance- no. Yet here I am, volunteering to be […]
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Hello! (hello, hello!) Is anyone here? (here, here) That’s quite the echo. But I can’t say I’m surprised. This website and blog have been around for about a year now, and it’s still pretty empty on the blog side. Let’s change that shall we!? I figure we will start at the beginning. A little introduction […]
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My sweet Turner turned 5 at the end of September, and I celebrated his birthday with a trip to the studio. This did not exactly rank high on his list of “Things I Want To Do On My Birthday”, but I invited his best friend to join us and brought buckets full of toys so […]
