Graceful Journey

Graceful Journey Hi, I’m Missy—Laila’s mom. I created this page to share our daughter’s daily journey living with Type 1 Diabetes. But we kept going, and we still are.

Faith-filled family sharing homeschool chaos, T1D parenting, RV journeys, chickens, coffee, and simple living while learning to live again with grace, laughter, and a little chaos. 🤍 Our goal is to offer encouragement to other moms navigating this life-changing diagnosis and to help kids like Laila feel seen and supported. Every day (and sometimes every minute) brings something new, but we face it

together. I’ll never forget the moment we heard the diagnosis—it changed everything. We hope our story brings comfort, strength, and maybe even friendship to those walking a similar path. Welcome to *Laila’s Story: A Graceful Journey* 💙

08/29/2026

How our homeschool day ended.. Never do I ever paint it as perfection, Lord knows we have good days and not so good days, but they are our days,,, and these days are just perfect to us!!! So thankful for the blessing of being able to homeschool this little angel. She’s not felt the best this week, but we ended with a smile and joy!

08/27/2026

A glimpse into some of our morning. I absolutely love experiencing this life, homeschooling is truly a blessing, not perfect, but a journey I truly embrace daily.

❤️ Good Morning ❤️ Happy Sunday 🤗
08/23/2026

❤️ Good Morning ❤️
Happy Sunday 🤗

Even though you’re not here with us today we still celebrate YOU! Momma is wishing you a BEAUTIFUL BIRTHDAY!!! We are ce...
08/22/2026

Even though you’re not here with us today we still celebrate YOU! Momma is wishing you a BEAUTIFUL BIRTHDAY!!! We are celebrating YOU today!! We are SO proud of you! Thank you for your commitment to serve!
Our FROGMAN in the making!

08/22/2026

Wishing our son Laz Hayes a very HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Although you’re not here with us today, I am CONFIDENT you are happy to be where you are and so excited about the future!!!! After so much prayer, I have TOTAL peace in my heart, you are being well trained and prepared to serve our Country, you will return back to us stronger, better, more confident etc.. then ever!!!!! You’re already making a GREAT soldier!!! Go be AMAZING son, our frogman 🐸 in the making!
(We all celebrated his birthday before he left, he had two cakes 🎂 😂)

✍🏼 “If you can overthink the worst, why can't you overthink the best?" ✍🏼🐸 A gentle reminder to shift our minds. What if...
08/22/2026

✍🏼 “If you can overthink the worst, why can't you overthink the best?" ✍🏼

🐸 A gentle reminder to shift our minds. What if, instead of imagining every worst-case scenario, we gave our energy to imagining what could go wonderfully right? 🐸

✨ Let’s flip the script and let our minds wander toward the best-case scenarios.

Drop a 💛 if you're choosing to lean into positivity today!

✍🏼 Shared Idea From Another Page ✍🏼 📚🏡 Math Is Better When It’s Personal! ➕✨Looking for a fun way to break the ice durin...
08/21/2026

✍🏼 Shared Idea From Another Page ✍🏼

📚🏡 Math Is Better When It’s Personal! ➕✨

Looking for a fun way to break the ice during the first week of school? Try a Math House Ice Breaker! 🏠🧮

Students get to share a little about themselves while practicing important math skills along the way! They can use their age, birthday, shoe size, number of pets, family members, siblings, class size, favorite numbers, and more to create their own math equations and solve fun number challenges.

It’s a simple way to:
✨ Get students talking and learning about one another
✨ Build classroom/homeschool community
✨ Practice addition and number sense
✨ Connect math to everyday life
✨ Help students see that math is all around us!

Perfect for back-to-school week, elementary classrooms, homeschool groups, tutoring sessions, or math centers. 💕📖

What better way to start the school year than by making math personal, meaningful, and FUN! 🎉

🌿 Graceful Journey
Nurture • Grow • Inspire

😂Just for fun, on my personal page I seen a CHAT GPT prompt…. 😂 🇺🇸🐸 Well, I’ve had a challenging 24-48 hours and needed ...
08/20/2026

😂Just for fun, on my personal page I seen a CHAT GPT prompt…. 😂
🇺🇸🐸 Well, I’ve had a challenging 24-48 hours and needed a little distraction 🐸🇺🇸. ♥️
(I just hugged our son goodbye (Navy), we are so proud of him, but nothing prepares you ever for the, see you laters)

😂 So I asked if you had to warn someone about me before they meet me, what would you tell them about me and provide a image of how you see me 😂
👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇

Oh, I’d warn them. 😂

I’d say:

“Just so you know what you’re walking into…”

She’s the kind of woman who will seem sweet and harmless at first. She’ll probably smile, ask how you’re doing, and genuinely want to hear the answer.

That’s when you need to be careful.

Because underneath that sweetness is a woman with BIG ideas.

She doesn’t just see a problem—she starts thinking about how to teach it, turn it into a business, make a printable workbook for it, create a class around it, and somehow put a farmhouse-style logo on it. 😂

She loves deeply. Her family is not a casual subject. If she loves you, she will pray for you, encourage you, defend you, teach you, celebrate you, and probably make a keepsake about the experience.

She has a dangerous combination of faith + creativity + determination.

Tell her something can’t be done and you’ve basically challenged her to prove you wrong.

Give her an ordinary idea and she’ll turn it into a whole curriculum.

Give her a child who needs encouragement and suddenly she’s planning a lesson, a craft, a Bible verse, a coloring page, and a field trip.

And don’t ever tell her, “That’s a really good idea, but…”

Because she has already heard the word “idea” and her brain is three projects ahead of you.

She also has a soft heart, which means she may care far more than she lets people see. She notices things. She remembers things. She wants people to feel loved, capable, encouraged, and valued.

So my final warning would be:

“Be careful with her heart. She has a lot of love in there.”

And if you become one of her people?

Congratulations. You didn’t just make a friend. You gained a cheerleader, teacher, encourager, prayer warrior, creative director, and probably somebody who is going to send you a picture she made at 11:47 PM because she suddenly had an idea. 😂❤️

On A Hike Yesterday, Sugar Drops Suddenly, Immediately We Grab The Closest Seat Then Gummies… Within 15 Minutes, She’s O...
08/17/2026

On A Hike Yesterday, Sugar Drops Suddenly, Immediately We Grab The Closest Seat Then Gummies… Within 15 Minutes, She’s Off And Running. No Matter The Times We Gotta Stop, We Are So Grateful…. Type 1 Life..
to the rescue.

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