Hellobee

When I was young, my activity of choice was dance. I took dance lessons each year from the time I was three until I graduated high school, and loved that I could exercise while using my creativity. I played softball for one or two seasons when I was around 10, but I wasn’t very good [...]

Ria has been three for just over two months, and I have to tell you: three is different then two.  About a month before her birthday it was like someone had flipped a switch and she just changed overnight.  She stopped being a sweet little toddler and turned into this little kid.  No hint of [...]

When I became a mom for the first time, Hellobee didn’t exist yet. I found out about Hellobee because I was a lurker on Mrs. Bee’s personal blog, and she shared that she would be launching it in beta soon. As soon as it launched, I requested an invitation and signed up. My daughter was [...]

I think I can safely say that one of my favorite movies ever is Babies. I saw it in the theater way back in 2009, long before I was considering becoming a parent myself (although I must have had some sort of subconscious awareness of what was to come, because I made Mr. Owl go with [...]

I like to swear like a sailor, so having kids has forced me to change my ways. One of the things I loved about cussing is how fun it can be… I find swearing to be a creative outlet, and also very stress relieving. I am sure that the kids will pick up all this [...]

After reading this post about becoming a new mom written by Mrs. Magic Wand, I have been thinking about the “me” and the “Mom.” It has been eight months since I gave birth to our little tea cup, and I have to say the “me” I was before is very different from the “Mom” that I [...]

Different cultures parent differently. But there are consistencies across all cultures, commonalities in parenting… right? Actually, that’s not true according to Nicholas Day (author of a book on the science and history of infancy); when he talked to Sara Harkness (a professor of human development at the University of Connecticut), she said the only commonality [...]