This post has been in my drafts for a long time. But there are so many wonderful nature documentaries on Netflix, and I still find watching them both relaxing and cathartic, a great form of escapism from my chronically ill life, so I decided to finally finish this post up and share it (and I […]
Author Archive for Mrs. Snowflake
As a parent of an only child, each stage with my daughter is the only time I’m ever going to go through that stage. On paper, Snowy’s first stage of life when she was a newborn, should have been the hardest: we were two to five hours away from any family support; I had undiagnosed […]
Sorry it’s been almost two weeks since I’ve written here! When I joined the Hellobee team, I committed to writing at least twice a week. While sometimes it’s been like once a week, I do try to keep my posts regular, despite the fact that my health is anything but regular. But life threw a […]
This post contains some light spoilers for the movie Wonder Park. It doesn’t give away the end–what it spoils happens very early in the film and is a major driving force behind the entire plot. I also think it’s important for a parent to know about before they take their kid to this movie. As […]
My only daughter, Snowy, just turned five in January, and for the past few months, she has been on a definite Pokemon kick. Snowy gets it honestly: Pokemon was one of Mr. Snowflake’s favorite things as a kid. When the Pokemon craze was at its height in the 90’s, I remember it being primarily a […]
When I look back on my first few years of motherhood, I was very lonely. There were a number of compounding factors that led to this. One was that I was a graduate student living five hours away from my own parents, two hours from my husband’s family, and at least that, if not more […]
Snowy just turned five, and for the last six months, her biggest challenge, as well as our biggest challenge raising her, has been dealing with her emotions. Snowy is an amazing kid, and I love being her mom. But, like all kids, Snowy has her unique challenges. She is a very active, hyper child. She […]
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