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Left: cover still from a TikTok video by @@justalexfugman. Right: A white rocking horse on a green stand indoors (Unsplash photo by Magic Fan).

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Madison Cates

Mom, Wife, Minimalist.

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A room with wooden furniture and a painting on the wall (Unsplash photo by Theo Lonic).

Left: TikTok still of a pink, toy-filled playroom with a child playing on the floor. Right: a small white toddler bed with a mesh canopy against a pink wall (Unsplash photo by Sven Brandsma).

A bottle of bleach, a canister of disinfecting wipes and a pump bottle of hand sanitizer on a wooden counter (Unsplash photo by Kelly Sikkema).

Left: TikTok still of a woman walking through a dim kitchen and dining area under the text '4:30AM Routine'. Right: a black dumbbell on a white marble floor (Unsplash photo by VD Photography).

Three small cast iron pans with decorative handles lined up on a wooden floor.

Two moments from an Instagram reel: a mom holding her toddler son on her hip in a kitchen under the text 'Your toddler can't be THAT clingy', then her standing with the toddler on her hip under the text 'My toddler'.

Left: Instagram reel still of hands numbering diapers in a fresh pack, with the text 'mom hacks I wish I had known sooner'. Right: stacks of folded colorful cloth diapers on grass (Unsplash photo by Šárka Hyková).

Still from the mysleepfriend Instagram reel about a young boy at a park picnic table explaining why he wants to marry his mom

Two moments from an Instagram reel: a mother in a selfie with her two daughters, then the whole family on the couch.