Hellobee

Sometimes I find myself repeating the same things over and over to my kids. After another night of saying, “we don’t eat play-doh,” it made me think back on some of the common sayings I heard from my parents growing up! – “If you say that one more time I’m going to clean your mouth […]

I was super excited to round up my favorite childhood toys, but was I sad to see that the updated versions of Operation, Guess Who, the EZ Bake Oven and countless other toys look markedly different than I remember, and the consensus is that they aren’t as well made as they used to be. But […]

I was digging through my parents’ attic trying to find my childhood picture books, and I found something I wrote in grade four (aka “fourth grade” for Americans). I remember while drafting this out, my teacher peered over my shoulder and said, “wow, you watch so many TV shows, how do you have time for […]

Every time my mom visits, I love hearing stories about what it was like when she raised me and my brother. I think raising kids is much more complicated now, but just because it was simpler back then, I’m not sure that it was any easier! I thought it’d be interesting to share how differently […]

I wonder what type of stories we’ll tell our kids about what it was like growing up in our generation (other than the fact that we had to walk 5 miles to school in the snow with no shoes of course). I think more change has happened in our lifetime than in any other lifetimes […]