AuntKadieBug started with two little boys I love more than anything – my twin nephews. For a few fragile months, they were bounced around and even kicked out of places that weren’t built for their energy, their needs, or their story. It wasn’t years of chaos, but at this stage of their tiny bug-brain development, even a short stretch of instability felt like too big a risk to just shrug off.

Their dad was suddenly a newly single father of twins – a blue-collar provider who always knew how to work hard, but had almost no roadmap for the emotional, developmental, and day-to-day storms of raising two little bugs. Outside of me, he had very few people or resources to turn to. Watching him try to hold it together in real time, with limited support and systems that didn’t fit his boys, made it painfully clear how many families are left to “figure it out” alone.

I also know firsthand that not every child is raised in a picture-perfect, two-parent home. Sometimes it’s grandparents, aunts, single dads, foster parents, or a patchwork of people stepping in—I’ve lived that, too, with my own loving grandparents helping raise me. Aunt KadieBug was created as a steady, familiar place for kids like my nephews to land, no matter whose house they’re in this week or which grown-up is doing their best.

This whole little bug world exists so those fragile early years feel just a little safer, softer, and more supported—for them, and for you.