Hellobee

Wow, it has been a LONG time since I’ve written here. Life was all consuming for a while and I simply didn’t have the energy to blog on Hellobee. I’ve mentioned before about various side hustles I do to try to earn a little extra money and between job hunting, house hunting, consulting, blogging on […]

When it works, taking my kids with me to one of the coffee shops nearby is so great and feels so freeing. I think in the winter especially it will be so good because it gets pretty cold here and outings (especially nearby outings) will have to become more regular. I have gone through the wringer […]

My husband and I made a huge decision last October…we sold our house and moved into an apartment. One last look at the house we loved and lived in for six years. If you live in the Midwest, you might think we’re crazy. Where we live in the suburbs outside Kansas City, having a large […]

I’ve written about why I love raising my kids in the city and on an island, but before having kids I always thought I would raise my kids in the suburbs. I’ve mostly lived in cities, but I also lived in the suburbs for almost 10 years in my late teens and early twenties. The […]

This afternoon, I’m watching my daughter play with the neighbor and she’s trying to show her friend how someone previously planted chives which appear to be perennials in our backyard and you can eat them! And her little friend (who is two years older than her and I’m sure seems super cool to an almost 3-year-old) […]

Over the past decade or so, I have slowly converted all of my “traditional” cleaning products into reusable and natural products. I did the process very slowly, because it can be both expensive and intimidating to change out all of the products that you know and love! I wanted to outline some easy switches that […]

I recently realized that reading, whether novels or blogs or non-fiction, has immense power for me. Most simply, it’s the power to feel united and to expose the constant truth that we are not alone. This Christmas, I asked for a few kindle books as gifts and one of them I received was “At Home […]