There is nothing better than having a best friend. We all need that one person who knows our hearts and souls better than anyone else. When they laugh, we laugh. If they cry, we cry. Having your best friend close by to share in the biggest moments of your life is a feeling that cannot be duplicated. A mom captured video of her young daughter, Lena, and her best friend, Kodi, at her Pre-K graduation, and it’s the most precious thing we’ve seen in a very long time. Lena is so excited for her girl that she can hardly contain herself. @veyonce_devonne And that’s on SISTERHOOD A best friend is irreplaceable. #bestfriend #sisterhood #motherhood #healing ♬ original sound – vanessadevonne Lena Made Sure Kodi Felt Her Love During Her Pre-K Graduation When Kodi rounds the corner and sees Lena waiting, her smile positively beams. Clad in a cap and gown, you can just tell that Kodi’s Pre-K graduation wouldn’t have been the same without her best friend there. It’s no surprise that the video quickly went viral. Several grown women posted photos with their childhood besties, letting Lena and Kodi know there is so much to look forward to. “This is my best friend since we were 4 years old. We’re now turning 33 this year and still going strong,” one woman wrote. “This is my best friend since we were 5 &6 years old and we are now 64 & 63 years old we still call each other sister,” another person added. This person’s comment touched our hearts. “This is the reality of humanity love each other unconditionally,” they wrote. “I swear she made me crying and smiling at the same time!” We 100% agree with this person, “I pray they grow old together experience all milestones together.” May these sweet little girls be sweet little old ladies having lunch 80 years from now and remembering the “good old days.” This story’s featured image can be found here

Little Debbie snacks have been staples in kids’ lunchboxes for decades. Debbie has a little something for everyone, so it’s hard not to love her. Even as we get older, we still treat ourselves to something sweet every so often. One of the most popular Little Debbie Snacks of all time is the Cosmic Brownie, and Scooters Coffee will celebrate the iconic treat with two new drinks. Friends, get ready for a collab that is truly out of this world beginning on June 18, 2026. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Scooter's Coffee (@scooterscoffee) Scooters Coffee Will Offer Cosmic Brownies Latte and the Cosmic Brownies Crème Cold Brew Scooters Coffee and Little Debbie are like a match made in heaven. “We set out on a mission to uncharted territory: Creating two unique drinks that capture both the flavor and galactic vibe of Cosmic® Brownies. We’re proud to partner with Little Debbie to deliver two crave-worthy drinks worthy of the Cosmic® Brownies name,” Angela Dempsey, senior director of menu strategy at Scooter’s Coffee, shared in a news release. “With each stellar sip, you’ll want to get your hands on these nostalgic snacks for yourself.” Scooters Coffee teased the collab on Instagram with a photo of a Little Debbie Cosmic Brownie and other classic 1990s items. “If you recognize these items, you’ll wanna be in the Scooters drive-thru tomorrow, the post reads. “1990, who loves Scooters and who loves the 90s and remembers all of this. I wanted an iPod shuffle so bad,” a fan wrote. “Oh my goodnesssss! The 90s is calling ~ I must pick upppp,” another person shared. This person loves all the things Scooters and 1990s, “Proud ipod user and cosmic brownie eater.” Scooters Coffee Cosmic Brownies Latte and the Cosmic Brownies Crème Cold Brew are available only for a limited time. This story’s featured image is by Jeffrey Greenberg/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Second Lady Usha Vance is opening up about her Hindu faith and the inner workings of her interfaith marriage and family. Her husband, Vice President JD Vance, recently released a new book chronicling his 2019 conversion to Catholicism titled Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith. In a new interview promoting the book with CBS News Sunday Morning, the couple shared more about their personal faiths and how they make their interfaith marriage work. Usha, who is currently expecting the couple’s fourth child, is the first practicing Hindu to hold the place of Second Lady. She is the daughter of Indian immigrants, according to Britannica. In a 2024 interview with Fox News, she shared, “I did grow up in a religious household. My parents are Hindu, and that was one of the things that made them such good parents, that make them really very good people.” View this post on Instagram Usha Vance explains her interfaith marraige Usha explained that she was exposed to many different religions growing up. “I grew up in this country around a range of Christian backgrounds and others as well,” she shared. “I had friends who were Bahá’í, who were Muslim, who were…I grew up in Southern California, so there were lots of Mormons around as well.” And although her husband practices a different faith, they see their different religious perspectives as a benefit. “I think having people believe very fundamental things that you are not always perfectly aligned with the way I think about the world is just very comfortable to me…it’s a peace with our relationship. I’m fine with JD having a different worldview at times that have us come to some kind of compromise or understanding,” she explained. “And that’s part of what makes it all very interesting. And part of what I think makes our family successful. Our children, I think, benefit from this back and forth, from knowing that mommy might say this and my daddy might think that. But fundamentally, we’re moving in the same direction together, and we want the same things out of life for our family and for ourselves.” Earlier in the interview, Vice President Vance explained that they are raising their children in the Christian faith, noting that they attend Christian schools. Usha Vance’s Hindu faith and family In a June 2025 interview on Citizen McCain with Meghan McCain, Usha shared that when she first met JD, he was not Catholic and had not yet converted. After they started having children, he decided to convert. She added, “We had a lot of conversations about that…when you convert to Catholicism, it comes with several important obligations like to raise your child in the faith and all of that. And we had to have a lot of real conversations about how do you do that, when I’m not Catholic and I’m not intending to convert or anything like that.” She went on to say that she thought it was a “really helpful thing to happen” in their marriage and for the trajectory of their family and raising their kids. “We make going to church a family experience,” she added. “The kids know that I’m not Catholic and we have plenty of access to the Hindu tradition from books that we give them to things that we show them, to the visit recently to India and some of the religious elements of that visit. So, it is a part of their lives and they know many practicing Hindus as a part of their lives in their own family.” Usha also explained that her kids’ main point of access to the Hindu faith is “through spending time with my parents and and my grandmother. My grandmother is a particularly devout Hindu. We don’t necessarily mark a lot of the holidays at home. What we do is with my family…we’ll see the gods in their home or be there when pujas are happening and all that.” The post Second Lady Usha Vance explains how she makes her interfaith marriage work appeared first on Upworthy.

Sariah Sinay (@sariahsinay) had the whole prom night pictured. The shimmering dark-blue dress, getting ready with the girls, piling into the car together, the photos on the way. As she explained in an Instagram video in late April, the getting-ready-together part was what she wanted most. Then, her friends told her there wasn’t room for her in the car. She could meet them at the dance, they said, just not ride along or be in the pre-prom photos. Teen girls line up for prom photos. Photo credit: Todd Cravens via Canva So, Sinay made a different call. Rather than tag along where she clearly wasn’t wanted, she decided to skip the prom altogether and repurpose the dress she’d bought, wearing it for the cover of an upcoming music release instead. The disappointment was real, but she’d already turned it into a plan. A serendipitous turn The video struck a nerve, pulling in close to three million views in about two days. Among the people who saw it was Leah Clancy (@leahclancyphotography), a senior portrait photographer based in the Vancouver, Washington area, who decided the dress deserved a real moment in front of a camera. View this post on Instagram “I reached out right away and told her if she lived closer, I’d love to photograph her. Turns out she’s only a few hours away, so this Sunday she’s coming down for a shoot,” Clancy wrote. Her message to Sinay was characteristically blunt and warm: “Girl, you didn’t get to go to the prom, but you’re going to get a killer photo shoot.” Clancy offered to shoot the very images Sinay would use for her album cover, turning the dress’s consolation-prize plan into something better than the original. Sinay was floored. “Ahhh! So excited! You have truly put a lasting smile on my face. And I’m so grateful for your kindness,” she wrote back. A new perspective The comments filled with people who recognized the particular sting of teenage exclusion and wanted to weigh in. “Those girls are not your friends. Go to your photo shoot and have a good time. Things get easier once you’re out of high school,” one wrote. Plenty of adults chimed in with their own versions of being left out, the small betrayals that apparently never fully leave you. Clancy, for her part, framed the whole thing in a way that landed harder than the usual be-kind platitude. “Sometimes people exclude you. Sometimes life reroutes you toward something better,” she wrote. Which is, more or less, exactly what Sinay had already decided for herself before a stranger ever picked up the phone. The post Her friends said there was no room in the car for prom photos. A stranger gave her a better shoot. appeared first on Upworthy.

Every author dreams of writing a bestseller, but few authors actually reach that goal. Even fewer hit bestseller status decades after they publish a book, but that’s exactly what has happened to Elissa Guralnick and Paul Levitt. Guralnick and Levitt coauthored children’s books when they were younger, but they never saw a dime of profit from them. In fact, Guralnick tells Denver 7 News that every time they published a new book, her husband would ask, “How much is this one going to cost us?” Now, thanks to author Eli McCann sharing a nostalgic memory of his eighth-grade teacher reading a book that helped him learn the word “ingratiate,” one of Guralnick and Levitt’s books has become an Amazon bestseller overnight. @eliwmccann My eighth grade teacher, Mrs. Yates. ♬ original sound – Eli McCann McCann couldn’t remember the name of the book, but he shared how his teacher, Mrs. Yates, would use it to help her students learn new vocabulary words. The only details he recalled were that the book had gorgeous illustrations and used stories to teach big words. For instance, he remembered a story about an elephant who was nervous about her friends coming over. To impress them, she made a dress out of gray curtains. The story focused on the phrase “in gray she ate” to teach the word “ingratiate.” McCann said he’d been looking for the book for 30 years and asked if anyone could help him out. @eliwmccann Replying to @kayinpa26 the weighty words book is the winner! ♬ original sound – Eli McCann People in the comments recognized the book as The Weighty Word Book, a 1985 book written by Paul M. Levitt, Douglas A. Burger, and Elissa S. Guralnick, and illustrated by Janet Stevens. In fact, relatives of the authors commented with delight over the book’s recognition. McCann’s video found its way to McCann’s teacher, Mrs. Yates, who is now in her mid-80s. She sent him a video reply that included The Weighty Word Book, which she still has. She opened to the page with the “ingratiate” story, with a rhinoceros (not an elephant), at a table with her friend, eating in gray. Another story in the book teaches the word “scintillate” by using a firefly who likes to go out galavanting at all hours of the night. In other words, she will “sin ’til late.” Ba dum pum. @eliwmccann An update on Mrs. Yates and the Weighty Word Book. ♬ original sound – Eli McCann People in the comments went wild over seeing the book and started clamoring to find it. “The response was hilarious, and miraculous,” Guralnick told Denver 7, “because the book overnight became a best seller on Amazon. I’m telling you, overnight.” She said the publisher, obviously thrilled, has sent it off to be reprinted due to the demand. The book’s third coauthor, Douglas Burger, died two years ago. But Paul Levitt is still alive, and he and Guralnick still see each other every week. Levitt, too, is blown away by the sudden success of their decades-old creation. Version 1.0.0 “The number of sales today made me believe in magic,” Levitt told Denver 7. However, it’s not the Eli McCann shoutout or the wild sales numbers on their book that have tickled the coauthors the most. It’s the excitement and joy their kids and relatives have gotten from all of this. Here’s to dreams coming true, even if it takes 40 years to see it happen. The post Co-authors shocked to find their children’s book written 40 years ago is suddenly a smash hit appeared first on Upworthy.