https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Mon, 20 Apr 2026 08:39:55 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/baby-book-recommendations#post-2808102 Tue, 06 Mar 2018 15:46:39 +0000 Mrs. Starfish 2808102@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I really liked our baby books from Ruby Love. Here is a blog post I wrote about it where you can see some pics: <a href="http://www.hellobee.com/2017/08/03/traditional-baby-book/" rel="nofollow">http://www.hellobee.com/2017/08/03/traditional-baby-book/</a> </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/baby-book-recommendations#post-2808097 Tue, 06 Mar 2018 15:11:11 +0000 Kitkat 2808097@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Second vote for Lucy Darling! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/baby-book-recommendations#post-2808093 Tue, 06 Mar 2018 14:45:00 +0000 Littlebit7 2808093@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Lucy darling. And as a bonus they are sold on amazon. Super easy and cute </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/baby-book-recommendations#post-2808092 Tue, 06 Mar 2018 14:41:45 +0000 CatchAFallingStar 2808092@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I’m looking for a modern baby book that’s easy to fill out, not too time consuming and maybe has prompts and spaces to add keepsakes like hospital bracelets, etc. thank you! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/promptly-journals#post-2796774 Sat, 13 Jan 2018 11:55:12 +0000 crazydoglady 2796774@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@CatchAFallingStar: So, I don't have one but after watching some videos on YouTube, I really want one! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/promptly-journals#post-2796746 Fri, 12 Jan 2018 23:09:35 +0000 CatchAFallingStar 2796746@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Does anyone use Promtly Journals to document your little ones? I’m considering buying a couple to finally jot down some memories and such for my girls (3 and due in February). Are they worth the cost? In case you aren’t familiar, I’m posting a link below. :happy: </p> <p><a href="https://promptlyjournals.com/collections/childhood-history-journal" rel="nofollow">https://promptlyjournals.com/collections/childhood-history-journal</a> </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/snow-days-when-you-were-a-kid-vs-now#post-2710079 Tue, 14 Mar 2017 10:10:53 +0000 Bibliolove 2710079@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I remember not finding out about snow days until the morning of. It seems like where I live now, they cancel school at the slightest hint of snow. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/snow-days-when-you-were-a-kid-vs-now#post-2709983 Tue, 14 Mar 2017 08:25:34 +0000 ladybee 2709983@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@farawayyama: I'm in NE Ohio and grew up in NW Ohio! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/snow-days-when-you-were-a-kid-vs-now#post-2709964 Tue, 14 Mar 2017 08:03:24 +0000 looch 2709964@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I feel they are the same, plus/minus one day. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/snow-days-when-you-were-a-kid-vs-now#post-2709961 Tue, 14 Mar 2017 08:01:16 +0000 farawayyama 2709961@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I grew up in New Zealand. I had one. Ever.</p> <p>Now I live in the snow belt (northern ohio) and teach. Today is our fourth this year, and we've also been closed for illness and for a power outage. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/snow-days-when-you-were-a-kid-vs-now#post-2709870 Mon, 13 Mar 2017 20:55:36 +0000 Foodnerd81 2709870@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Oh- and while snow days with the kids home trapped inside are rough, I definitely prefer that to driving to pick her up early in treacherous conditions! And I appreciate that DH can easily work from home on bad weather days instead of having to risk driving. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/snow-days-when-you-were-a-kid-vs-now#post-2709868 Mon, 13 Mar 2017 20:52:53 +0000 Foodnerd81 2709868@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>How does the amount of snow days you/ your kids have now compare with what you remember from growing up? </p> <p>I grew up in a similar climate to where I live now (a little less snow but a little less equipped to deal with it, all northeast US). It feels like the number of snow days we have is pretty similar, but I can't remember them canceling school the night before, before it had even started snowing, at all. This winter I feel like every time we have a snow day it's been announced the night before. I'm wondering if they realized how much easier it is on parents and safer it is tokeep people off the roads, or weather predictions have gotten better and more reliable?</p> <p>But no wearing pajamas backwards and jumping on the bed hoping for a snow day for us! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/growing-up-were-your-parents-affectionate-with-you#post-2709629 Mon, 13 Mar 2017 14:10:58 +0000 bubblegum 2709629@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Absolutely not! I knew my mom loved me but she never said it (only one time I can remember) and the hugs started after like 8 years old. I think it was just the old school way for her but I'm sooo the opposite! DS probably hears I love you 100 times a day and I hug and kiss him to the point that he probably wants to kill me :silly: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/growing-up-were-your-parents-affectionate-with-you#post-2709617 Mon, 13 Mar 2017 14:01:56 +0000 Bibliolove 2709617@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes! My husband and I are affectionate with each other too, and I assume will be with our future kids. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/growing-up-were-your-parents-affectionate-with-you#post-2709614 Mon, 13 Mar 2017 14:00:13 +0000 MrsRoo 2709614@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes, very much so. My parents were also very affectionate with each other. I vividly remember seeing them hold hands and kiss at red lights in the car. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/growing-up-were-your-parents-affectionate-with-you#post-2709606 Mon, 13 Mar 2017 13:47:02 +0000 MrsSRS 2709606@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes. We hug/kiss hello and goodbye and say I love you then and at other times. We still do. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/growing-up-were-your-parents-affectionate-with-you#post-2709211 Sun, 12 Mar 2017 22:20:40 +0000 mrbee 2709211@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>PHYSICALLY: Not really? I would hug my dad when he got home from work, but it was more me hugging him than the other way around.</p> <p>EMOTIONALLY: I didn't really hear "I love you" very often either. Maybe after a long trip away, or if I was sick or something.</p> <p>OVERALL: Despite both of the above, I never doubted that my parents loved me! I don't know how I knew that they loved me, but I did feel loved growing up. I also think that "back in the day," the norm was that parents weren't all that physically or emotionally affectionate? So it was pretty common for hugs and kisses and "I love yous" to be infrequent!</p> <p>Growing up, were your parents affectionate with you? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-happiest-memory-going-on-vacation-with-family#post-2705678 Fri, 03 Mar 2017 14:37:23 +0000 gentlelunette 2705678@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We didn't really do big family trips, except to go visit other family on the other side of the country. I think some of my happiest childhood memories are of Christmas morning. That said, some of my happiest memories with DH are from our pre-kid roadtrips. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-happiest-memory-going-on-vacation-with-family#post-2705670 Fri, 03 Mar 2017 14:32:32 +0000 PawPrints 2705670@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Happiest memory of my whole life? No way. We had lots of wonderful vacations growing up, but my happiest memories are with friends, SOs, DH, DD. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-happiest-memory-going-on-vacation-with-family#post-2705591 Fri, 03 Mar 2017 13:34:39 +0000 honeybear 2705591@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>No, our vacations were fine and often quite happy memories (and the least expensive ones are the happiest of those), but not my happiest memories. </p> <p>I don't think that the quotes/points made in that article add up to "everyone should go on more vacations," but rather, "families should spend more time together." Which makes sense to me, as the happiest families I know all spend a <i>lot</i> of time together. The converse seems to be true, too. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-happiest-memory-going-on-vacation-with-family#post-2705545 Fri, 03 Mar 2017 12:04:24 +0000 Mrs. Lemon-Lime 2705545@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My happiest family vacation memories are the ones that my dad didn't attend. :bummed: They were fun though!</p> <p>For my overall childhood though I'd say my fondest memories include my friends. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-happiest-memory-going-on-vacation-with-family#post-2705511 Fri, 03 Mar 2017 10:40:47 +0000 skinnycow 2705511@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I've never really thought about this before, but yes! Most of my happiest memories were either vacations or family holidays. </p> <p>One of the main reasons I decided to work and not SAH was so we would have the ability travel with our DD and any future children. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-happiest-memory-going-on-vacation-with-family#post-2705505 Fri, 03 Mar 2017 10:34:00 +0000 looch 2705505@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My happiest memories are of the summer, when we used to belong to this pool club. I had the best time, basically on my own, but with kids my age and not supervised. It was so full of memories!</p> <p>When we went on vacation I was usually the world class pain in the rear. My family loves to tell the time when we went to the Jersey Shore and I refused to go into the room where we were staying, lol. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-happiest-memory-going-on-vacation-with-family#post-2705499 Fri, 03 Mar 2017 10:25:38 +0000 krispi 2705499@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Some of mine are. My grandparents had some friends who owned a beach house, so we'd always spend a week or 2 there in the summer. It was a lot of fun. And since we went with my grandparents, my brother and I rarely had to ride in the same car! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-happiest-memory-going-on-vacation-with-family#post-2705467 Fri, 03 Mar 2017 09:41:16 +0000 mrsbookworm 2705467@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Definitely! We always did one "big" trip to a farther away destination and then two weeks at the NJ shore with extended family each year. I loved all of it and hope my children have some similar feelings about family vacations in the future. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-happiest-memory-going-on-vacation-with-family#post-2705395 Fri, 03 Mar 2017 04:06:09 +0000 Kemma 2705395@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We always had a summer holiday at Lake Taupo in NZ and I have such amazing memories of those trips away! We would pack up all our camping stuff into the boat and make the 2.5 hour drive north on a stinking hot summer day, some of the time we would break down, other times we would get stuck in the holiday traffic! </p> <p>I remember fishing in the morning then swimming or waterskiing in the afternoons, going to bed when it got too dark to see and getting up when it got too hot to stay in the tent.</p> <p>In the early spring we would have a week's holiday at our beach house, the weather wasn't always great but we played scrabble if it rained and walked on the beach if the weather was dry. </p> <p>Our beach house was a tiny asbestos box and we never had expensive or overseas holidays but they were always fun and I loved them :heart: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-happiest-memory-going-on-vacation-with-family#post-2705391 Fri, 03 Mar 2017 03:48:52 +0000 SugarplumsMom 2705391@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Going grocery shopping. Not even real shopping, just for groceries. My parents were always fighting and special occasions always brought on some sort of conflict. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-happiest-memory-going-on-vacation-with-family#post-2705380 Thu, 02 Mar 2017 23:50:16 +0000 bhbee 2705380@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Not of "real" vacations to someplace totally different. But the visits to my moms parents are on the list with Christmases. We would drive 14 hours to see them in a station wagon and I thought their rural home was just magical. Even the drive I have fond memories of now although I'm not sure my mom would! (My dad usually stayed behind to work.) so even though I sometimes get annoyed at the pressure to visit family during all our vacations I know it will mean a lot to our kids. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-happiest-memory-going-on-vacation-with-family#post-2705377 Thu, 02 Mar 2017 23:42:29 +0000 sapphire 2705377@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I definitely have some of my most vivid memories of times on summer vacations with family. We didn't go anywhere too exotic but good memories were made. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-happiest-memory-going-on-vacation-with-family#post-2705365 Thu, 02 Mar 2017 22:50:03 +0000 nwm 2705365@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm not sure they were the happiest, but they were some of the most interesting/memorable times. Even when vacations were a quasi-disaster, it made for a good story and forms part of the family lore more so than everyday life. I wonder if that skews the survey responses. </p>