Hellobee

For the past six months, we’ve been on a seemingly endless loop of two unending conversations around our home, revolving around two big questions: Is there a “right” or “wrong” reason for having another kid? How much uncertainty is too much? Not easy questions, of course. Questions with “answers” that seem to shift based on mood, or […]

Every time I think of them, I think of that children’s song that asks whether your ears hang low. You know – do they wobble to and fro, can you tie them in a knot, and tie ’em in a bow, and throw ’em over your shoulders… It’s my breasts! They’ve changed since bringing another person […]

This week, my relationship becomes a teenager. If parenting a teenager is the hardest thing since, well, the fourth trimester, nourishing a partnership that began thirteen years ago has to be just as fraught with the same highest highs and lowest lows. No one angers me more – and no one can make me laugh harder. […]

Don’t tell 20-year-old me but I am totally one of those parents who uses a coffee mug featuring their kid’s mug all over it every day at work. Every day! There is nothing like seeing Will’s face during a meeting, and I realized recently that I have used one particular service almost 100% consistently for […]

Last week, the American Academy of Pediatrics released a new statement on media use by children – more commonly known as recommendations about the all dreaded-but-dear-God-necessary screen time. I was pretty jazzed about the update because it seemed to clarify the use of screens, and media, along the varied ways modern parents – myself included […]

It’s the changing of the seasons! Hooray, fall! It’s the beginning of cold and flu season. Womp womp. I recently spent a wonderful, lovely day at home with my darling two year old as he fought a fever, sore throat and general illness that rendered him a monster so sad that I couldn’t help but pity […]

One of my favorite things to seek out here on Hellobee are gift ideas for kids in my life – including my own! Last year, I shared what I thought Will would love around one year old and now I’m back with what our two year old received for his birthday last month and is […]