kate_sept2004/E+/Getty Images Of all the milestones I’ve experienced as a mother so far, sending my oldest off to kindergarten in the fall of 2019 was the biggest. I was emotional about it from the very start, and spent all summer feeling anxious about how fast time was going and panicked that I was so anxious,...
Thomas Barwick/DigitalVision/Getty Images "How was Avery’s serve tonight?" my husband asked after I returned home from volleyball practice. I was lying on the couch, scrolling through Pinterest, busy saving all the pins I’ll never look at again. "Decent," I replied. "Decent?" he asked, "What does that even mean?" His tone was serious, so I lifted...
I first stumbled across Erika Dus’ Instagram profile back in the fall of 2024. Like many of you, I’m sure, I was getting served a lot of suburban-Swifties-for-Harris-walking content (usually while the subject was wearing a weighted vest). I was drawn to her love of TayTay, but I was also really drawn to her unapologetic...
Mapodile/Getty Images It’s the middle of the week. The whole family’s finally home after the hustle and bustle of school and work and extracurriculars. And everyone’s hungry. You’re exhausted (because *motherhood*), so you don’t have anything planned, which means whipping something up on the fly. Say it with me: uggghh. Cue rifling through the pantry...