Hellobee

Since I’ve last posted on Hellobee, Lilly and Audrey have transitioned out of the preschool years. When I last shared an update, they had just turned four years old and the pandemic was still in the earlier stages. They are now five years old and started in-person kindergarten last month. Watching them walk into their […]

It’s been really interesting to follow what my friends and family across the country and world have experienced with regard to social distancing and the pandemic. I figured I’d share our experience so far with you all. Lilly and Audrey in a moment of quarantine stir-crazy Childcare Prior to the pandemic, our childcare situation was […]

The girls are passing the three-and-a-half year marker and I’m enjoying this age a lot. I have not exactly kept it a secret here that age two was really not my favorite. I often developed some anxiety in the two-year trenches when friends would tell me that age three was much harder than age two. […]

I really like the holiday season. I have always been that person who starts listening to Christmas music starting on December 1st, and we usually have our decorations up before the month begins. There is so much that I love about this time of year – spending time together as a family, embracing old traditions, […]

Around Lilly’s third birthday, we started to notice that she ever-so-slightly went cross eyed when she was tired and looking far distances. Our nanny was the first to mention it to us, through a casual text that she sent while we were at work. I honestly likely would have brushed it off except that the […]

My twin girls are approaching their fourth Halloween and I’m sure those of you with three-year-olds can relate to the very passionate and curious and excited conversations that we have been having about their costumes. I find it somewhat humorous that I used to bemoan Halloween decorations showing up in stores “so crazy early!!” when […]

After I wrote last week about my melanoma diagnosis, I was overwhelmed by all of the kind words and hopes and prayers that flooded in. Thank you so much – I truly cannot overstate how helpful they were as I was sitting and shivering in the surgery suite. In this world where we so often […]