Grosse Pointe Moms Club
In the Shade
Anderson and her son Corey sit on a bench at
Metro Beach Metropark with another club member, April Zaidi, and her
three sons. Zaidi hosts the weekly kids' music and movement class. She
makes maracas from plastic eggs and drums from empty
infant-formula cans for the class, confident that, as a former glee-club
member and drama-camp teacher, she could offer as much as any fancy
studio. "I've seen people pay $10 for a half-hour class with a lot of
rules. Why should we do that when we can teach the kids for free in the
basement?" says Zaidi, who has dubbed herself Miss Frugal. She bought
the furniture for their three-bedroom bungalow on Craigslist and keeps
to a strict $140-a-week cash budget. "Everything we have is used, but
who cares? With three boys, everything looks used as soon as you get it
into the house anyway," she says.