Henrik Sorensen/DigitalVision/Getty Images Aldi has been part of my life for as long as I can remember. I grew up in Michigan with two pathologically frugal parents. This meant that large grocery stores like Meijer or Kroger (that’s the same as Ralphs for you West Coast folks) were considered a bit too bougie for our...
Warner Bros. The word “princess” has a bad rap. And I get it. For a long time, the word princess was just associated with spoiled girls and actual royalty, and the idea of your little girl saying she wanted to grow up to be a princess was cringe. But princesses, in both history and Disney...
Maskot/Maskot/Getty Images A funny thing happened when I took a career break to raise my kids: I struggled to answer that most ubiquitous question, “So, what do you do?” At first, I thought the question itself, posed by strangers at parties and school pickup lines, was challenging enough. But I soon discovered my rambling, self-conscious...
recep-bg/E+/Getty Images Everyone knows you should always be prepared in case of an emergency. Whether you learned it in your Scout Troop or had one of those parents who got to the airport four hours early with both printed-out confirmation emails of airline tickets and actual boarding passes, it’s something we all know to be...