Hellobee

I was born in a hospital half an hour from the house where I lived for 18 years, where my parents still live. My dad worked for the same company my entire life, which he is now retired from. I went to the same school district my entire life, graduating from the high school two […]

Ever since Snowy was born just over five years ago, my parents have been much more interested in giving us experiences than physical things as gifts. This started out because we were living a as a family of three in a one-bedroom (later two-bedroom) apartment. It has continued because Snowy has so many toys and […]

If there was one emotion that defined me for a very long period of time, from high school to grad school, it was guilt. Some people seem to have a natural inclination toward certain emotions. For instance, certain people are angrier than others; their natural reaction to small slights or negative things is anger. Anger is […]

In my post about the last animated movie we saw, Into the Spider-Verse, I talked about how seeing movies is one of our favorite things to do as a family. It’s been a while since we’ve had the chance to see anything, but we finally had a chance to see a family movie, The Lego […]

I have never really been much of a hobby person. In high school, I would jump around from thing to thing. I had my regular extracurriculars (choir, theater, and church) that I did for years, but when it came to actually doing things in my spare time, I liked the idea of hobbies but not […]

There are a lot of resources out there for healthy parents of disabled children. There are parents who are fierce advocates for their children, and write about the experience. There are Facebook groups and communities for parents of children with a huge range of illnesses and disabilities. There are a lot of fantastic resources out […]

Aptly for her nickname, my five-year-old daughter whom I call Snowy here on the blog, there has been an uninvited guest for many of her Midwestern January birthdays: snowstorms. Three of Snowy’s birthdays, plus the original day she was born, have been complicated by snow. Even before she was born, snow and Snowy were quite […]