The box on the kitchen counter is a multipack of Lunchables, the kind with a cookie tucked into each tray. She slides the trays out one at a time, peels back the film, pops the Oreos out and drops them into a zipper bag. Then she picks up a wooden rolling pin. That is the … Read more
The Instagram creator @theannewatson is at her laptop with her fingers on the keyboard when her son appears in the doorway behind her with an electric guitar already in his hands. Two seconds into the clip, the words “Welcome to my life…” come up on screen, and she turns to the camera grinning in a … Read more
The first line of text arrives over a close shot of a mom sitting with her knees pulled up in her kitchen, half smiling at the camera: “I forgot to put an RSVP on my daughters birthday invites and she just told me ‘it’s the talk of the school.’” That is how @shannonnjune opens a … Read more
The first frame of the reel puts the morning in capital letters across a stripped, rumpled bed: “I called my husband crashing out.” Smaller words underneath fill in the rest, “waking up soaked” and “let’s clean.” Then the camera drops to the sheet itself, where a dark wet patch spreads across the taupe fabric while … Read more
The ultrasound was supposed to look for one thing. According to her video, it found something else: her son’s appendix was inflamed, and within hours he was in surgery to have it removed. @kylieapitts, who posts as Kylie Pitts, filmed the four minute update from a hospital room the morning after and posted it on … Read more
The phone is propped low, pointing past a mom’s outstretched legs at a hospital stretcher with red side rails. On the far side of it, a toddler in a white outfit with her hair up is climbing, crawling over the green sheet, standing up, getting down, climbing again. A clock on the wall and a … Read more
The plan for day 8 was the living room carpet. It did not happen. “The oscillating tool I picked up did not want to work,” she says. “I had three fully charged batteries with me and not one worked, so we pivot.” She moved to the kitchen instead, and the clip shows a hand in … Read more
“Apparently it’s no longer boys go to Jupiter to get more stupider,” she says, one finger on her chin under the brim of a camo ball cap. The update comes from her son, who she describes as “seven year old, or almost seven year old,” and who had a new playground rhyme to report. The … Read more
The photo that set it off was simple, as she describes it: her son, sitting with a backpack and a suitcase. Someone who saw him over the weekend took a picture and sent it to her. “I’ve not seen a candid photo of my son,” she says. “I’ve not caught a personal glimpse of him … Read more
“Happy Food Delivery Friday! Now let’s leak the group chat.” That is how Summer Reign Henning, who posts as @summerreignhenning, opens a video filmed in the front seat of her car, a tablet in a blue case on her lap and rain on the windows. The on screen title reads “GROUP CHAT LEAK,” and for … Read more