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,...
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...
StockPlanets/E+/Getty Images When I was in high school, my mom — who was a teenager in the ’70s and ’80s — was positively tickled by the fact that my friends and I wore flared jeans. “I never thought I’d see bellbottoms come back,” she’d marvel. “They’re not bellbottoms. They’re flared,” I’d counter. And she’d roll...