https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sun, 05 Apr 2026 15:42:14 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/handprint-per-year-project#post-2768796 Sun, 20 Aug 2017 05:43:16 +0000 meadow 2768796@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@erinbaderin: ohh blue tac is a good idea..... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/handprint-per-year-project#post-2768765 Sat, 19 Aug 2017 19:55:14 +0000 erinbaderin 2768765@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Do you need to adhere it? Just put some cardboard or something at the back to create enough pressure that the handprint stays in place. </p> <p>Or blue-tack? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/handprint-per-year-project#post-2768757 Sat, 19 Aug 2017 19:06:59 +0000 SweetCaroline 2768757@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>What if this year's background becomes next year's handprint? Then there's no need to un-adhere anything. You also have to wait 15+ years to get the background you ultimately want, but that's the best I could do :silly: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/handprint-per-year-project#post-2768747 Sat, 19 Aug 2017 17:36:46 +0000 Jennibenni 2768747@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I think I would just trace them all on the same piece of paper each year. And line up the bottom of the palm eacb time so you can see how the hand gets longer and wider. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/handprint-per-year-project#post-2768711 Sat, 19 Aug 2017 11:17:42 +0000 meadow 2768711@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Before kids, I remember seeing a blog post on the internet about tracing your child's handprint onto cardstock every year and mounting them in a picture frame where the youngest is closest to the glass and each year you mount the new handprint at the back so you can see how their hands grow over time. It was really cute - so I filed it away in my mind as a "someday..." project.</p> <p>Well - I went and bought cardstock and frames and glue dots and got all excited.... BUT..... then I realized I'm not sure how to do it right. I have a background sheet of cardstock that I will put this year's handprint on. But in a year, I'll need to remove it to put the new one behind and reattach to the background sheet.</p> <p>So my question is.......... all you crafty people....... what is the smartest way to do this so I don't ruin the background sheet? Is there a removable glue dot type product that will really be removable after a full year - or even better - reusable for, say, 15 years?</p> <p>TIA! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whats-your-911-story#post-2620352 Mon, 12 Sep 2016 19:14:48 +0000 mrsbookworm 2620352@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I was teaching in northern NJ, about twenty minutes from Manhattan. The tech teacher called me into his office after the first plane hit and we watched as the second plane hit. As other teachers heard through word of mouth, they joined us in the office. We didn't tell the kids because we didn't know who had family there. I was working with my aunt at the time and she came running in crying, asking if it was true. I didn't realize it, but my cousin worked in the second tower. I just knew he worked in the city. She went home to be with his wife. I couldn't go home because I lived right by the entrance to the Lincoln Tunnel and everything was blocked. I went back to my mom's house after work and we waited to hear about my cousin. We were one of those families hoping that he was in a hospital somewhere, not able to get in touch. Unfortunately, that was not the case. He left behind three kids under the age of four. The oldest just started her freshman year of college. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whats-your-911-story#post-2620347 Mon, 12 Sep 2016 19:03:38 +0000 yellowbeach 2620347@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Wow - what an amazing collection of unique stories from many different perspectives. It's nice to hear there were some positives for some people, like @Anagram getting a scholarship. </p> <p>In all the accounts from EMS and medical personnel, everyone mentions the lack of patients as the hardest thing to deal with. You amass such an incredible response of resources, and they have nothing to do. A very helpless feeling. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whats-your-911-story#post-2620274 Mon, 12 Sep 2016 17:13:40 +0000 MrsRcCar 2620274@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I was in 8th grade. We were all taken into the cafeteria and we watched everything unfold on the screen. It was surreal. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whats-your-911-story#post-2620207 Mon, 12 Sep 2016 15:06:56 +0000 Spinny 2620207@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I had just started my sophomore year of college and was about 90 miles north of NYC. I just happened to be up early that morning because I had a court appearance for a traffic ticket. On my 5 minute drive back to my apartment I heard the dj mentioning terrorism and saying not to jump to conclusions and I had no idea what he was talking about. I turned on the tv just after the second plane hit and stayed in front of the tv all morning. My dad and cousin worked in the city but both got out pretty early on. I later learned that the planes that hit the buildings must have flown directly overhead of where I was. </p> <p>I still went to class and work later that day, I really don't think the magnitude of the events that day even hit me until the next day. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whats-your-911-story#post-2620068 Mon, 12 Sep 2016 12:14:11 +0000 alphagam84 2620068@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I was in history class in high school and they interrupted class to bring in a tv so we could watch the news. We still had school that day but no one was really teaching and some kids were picked up early by their parents. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whats-your-911-story#post-2619933 Mon, 12 Sep 2016 09:30:43 +0000 snowjewelz 2619933@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Really love reading all these stories... It's like we were all different ages living in different places doing different things but this one event really units us all together. </p> <p>I was I think a junior in high school... We watched it on TV in class and then got sent home. Thankfully no one in my family were in NYC, and cellphones weren't a huge thing yet so it took a few days to find out whether friends and other people we knew were safe or not. I remember just feeling very surreal, like it was so close yet so far away (I lived in the suburbs, about 50 min from NYC). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whats-your-911-story#post-2619929 Mon, 12 Sep 2016 09:23:28 +0000 josina 2619929@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I was on the way to school senior year, and heard the dj's on the radio mention a plane hitting the first tower. My friend and I just thought it was an accident, a small plane. Once we got to first period the teacher left the tv on and we just watched in shock, some students crying. Our English teacher actually had us journal on what was happening... how I wish I had that still. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whats-your-911-story#post-2619921 Mon, 12 Sep 2016 09:08:24 +0000 Pumuckl 2619921@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>It was already mid afternoon when the first tower was struck for us (in Europe), so it had been an uneventful day at school. I had a dentist appointment in the early afternoon and as I was coming back home heard on the radio that according to first reports a plane had struck the WTC. We got home and immediately turned the TV on and actually saw the second plane crashing into the second tower. We didn't leave the TV after that. We were all totally shocked and I remember saying that I really hope that this wasn't the beginning of WW3. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whats-your-911-story#post-2619904 Mon, 12 Sep 2016 08:40:43 +0000 mediagirl 2619904@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>In the link @mrbee posted, there is this paragraph that rang so true for my family:<br /> "In the immediate aftermath there were rumours that many people had survived but were either in hospitals or wandering the streets in dazed confusion trying to get home. But doctors stood outside hospitals waiting for victims that never arrived. Jordana and others tried donating blood, but the donor banks turned them away. There was no need."</p> <p>My brother was a doctor at NYU at the time. He said for them, not only did they have to deal with the shock of the event, but then they had to stand there and wait for patients who never arrived. I can't imagine that feeling. This huge disaster and no patients. </p> <p>I was working in CT at the time and my coworkers and I went to give blood, but we were turned away due to lack of need. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whats-your-911-story#post-2619889 Mon, 12 Sep 2016 07:45:44 +0000 Tanjowen 2619889@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I was driving to my part time job I worked at during college, next to the Atlanta airport. I was listening to the radio and the DJs were saying an aircraft had hit one of the Towers but at that point nobody suspected terrorism. And then the 2nd Tower was hit and they started screaming on the radio and I about drove off the road in shock. I went on to work and we gathered at a local restaurant and watched the news. It was a weird day because there were no aircraft in sight, which is something eerie to see in Atlanta. </p> <p>I'll never forget sitting there when the Towers fell. People screamed, some sobbed, some were yelling in anger. I remember feeling like it wasn't true, that this couldn't be happening. </p> <p>@Anagram: Gah, that had to be a terrible feeling. I didn't know my husband then, but he told me how on 9/11 he spent all day frantically calling friends and colleagues. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whats-your-911-story#post-2619883 Mon, 12 Sep 2016 07:16:12 +0000 Anagram 2619883@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>It was before we moved to the NYC area, so I wasn't personally affected. I'm glad I didn't live here then, because apparently Hoboken was one of the most affected areas in terms of death/capita =(</p> <p>As it is, since moving to this area, I've had two students whose parents were lost in 9/11--one who was a newborn when his dad passed in WTC. I have also had 2-3 kids whose parents are WTC survivors. One wrote a book about his experience which is pretty popular.</p> <p>This is my first year having students were weren't born yet on 9/11.</p> <p>Anyway, on the day of--I was in college, and had a part time job. I arrived early at my job and the place was totally deserted--As I walked through the office, I heard voices so I followed it until I found everyone crowded around a small TV,. watching the towers burning. I heard about the planes and panicked a little, because my dad was a pilot for American and had flown many times out of LGA and EWR.</p> <p>I ran back out to my car and called home, and my dad answered--in my momentary panic, I had forgotten that my dad was (newly) grounded because he had what we would eventually find out was a brain tumor. =( It was an awful time--my dad's profession was rocked.</p> <p>FYI--The pilot's union for AA paid for college completely for all of the 9/11 pilot's kids. The started a fundraiser specifically for that, but eventually raised so much money they started giving need scholarships to all children of pilots who passed--after my dad died, they paid for my last semester of college in full. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whats-your-911-story#post-2619857 Mon, 12 Sep 2016 00:27:54 +0000 Emsmems 2619857@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>It was my senior year of high school and I was running late (as usual) to school (it was just after 7 am where I lived) and the DJs on the radio were talking about a plane crashing into a building in NYC. They were discussing whether they thought it was an accident or on purpose. I got to class and the TV was on, and I walked in right as the 2nd plane hit. I thought they were showing what had happened before but soon realized I was wrong and this was most definitely NOT an accident. We were all glued to the TV. It was all we talked about all day, and all we watched on TV for days. Luckily we had no family or friends living or working near any of the disasters so that was a blessing, but I felt for those who did. </p> <p>Little did I know my future husband, inspired by the heroes of 9/11, went and started volunteering at his local fire department as soon as he was old enough in October of 2001. 9/11 means more to me now knowing how those wives and families of the 343 firefighters who died must've felt. And I've since heard first hand accounts from FDNY Firefighterss who were there and survived. Scary and emotional stuff! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whats-your-911-story#post-2619854 Sun, 11 Sep 2016 23:50:44 +0000 lamariniere 2619854@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I had just arrived in Paris for my junior year of study abroad. I had been out shopping for things for my new apartment and kept hearing New York and Washington on the radio, but my level of French wasn't very good at the time and I didn't understand. I went to the local Internet cafe awhile later and was started getting messages from my brother, who was at school in DC and from a friend who was at school in Manhattan saying they were ok. I had no idea what they were talking about and checked CNN and the NYT and was shocked to see what had happened. In the days that followed France went into a state of alert and armed military guards were very visible all over the city, especially in the metro. The most surreal part was that I didn't have a TV and I never saw the footage in video format minus one or two clips on the net. When I was back in the US a year later on the anniversary, I was completely stunned in front of all the video clips on TV, which everyone else had already seen a million times. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whats-your-911-story#post-2619847 Sun, 11 Sep 2016 22:54:17 +0000 Mama Bird 2619847@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I went to high school in downtown Manhattan, and 2001 was my senior year and freshman year of college. A couple of weeks before 9/11, I remember sitting at the plaza looking up at the twin towers, thinking I have to say goodbye to them because I'm going away. So weird to think of that afterwards...</p> <p>On 9/11, I was going to lecture in college and the class was just milling around in the hallway. Someone said that class was cancelled because a plane had hit the World Trade Center. I'd heard of an accident years back where a small plane hit the Empire State Building, so I figured it was something like that and the professor is just a real sensitive soul. Until they wheeled the TV out, that is. We still didn't realize how bad it was until one of the towers went down, right there on TV. And then the other one. I knew someone up there and was sure they'd died (luckily not, but they lost several coworkers). My mom and brother were several blocks from the WTC, but it didn't occur to me at the time to worry about them, I figured they're probably terrified but safe indoors, and only later found out how people were running from the giant dust cloud, walking over bridges, just trying to get out of there as fast as they could...</p> <p>It took a long time for the human toll to really sink in. I just couldn't wrap my mind around it for months. I'm grateful that more people hadn't died (the WTC held some 50,000 workers, I think), but as our mayor said in the days just after, no matter how many, the number is more than we could bear... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whats-your-911-story#post-2619843 Sun, 11 Sep 2016 22:23:10 +0000 Mrs Green Grass 2619843@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>It was still summer before my senior year of. Pledge and I had returned from studying abroad in Europe 5 days before. Many or my friends were stuck for over a week. </p> <p>My mom woke me up after the first plane hit but I went back to sleep (west coast). E both through it was an accident. Then the sevond plane hit and I watched tv the rest of the day. It's crazy to think high school kids today don't know anything about it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whats-your-911-story#post-2619815 Sun, 11 Sep 2016 21:06:47 +0000 808love 2619815@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>A coworker woke me up super early in the morning. She knew I was planning to go to NY in a few weeks and she said something about planes but it wouldn't compute. Finally, she gave up and said, Just turn on the tv. They are replaying it.<br /> It was horrible. In the days that followed, my students discussed it. A particularly insightful student mentioned the racism that would follow against the ethnic group of the people who did this. Just speechless at his perspective. </p> <p> I ended up rescheduling my NYtrip a year later. I was moved by all the work the rescue workers and people did to bring light to such a dark situation. I remember taking a non-digital pic of Ground Zero in the rain. When I developed the photo somehow enlarged the drops of rain so it just looked like huge teardrops with an unfocused desolate background. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whats-your-911-story#post-2619806 Sun, 11 Sep 2016 21:01:18 +0000 nana87 2619806@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I was a senior in high school in Michigan. I remember I was just arriving at school when a classmate stopped me in the parking lot crying and saying something about a plane crashing--this sounds terrible, but she had developmental delays and so I didn't really believe her, and I was going to be late for class, so I kind of brushed her off. I got to my physics class and the teacher had on the news, and we all sat there watching together. School closed really early and we all went home--I don't think we went to any other classes--and I watched the news the rest of the day with my family. I'm not sure if it was just my school or the district, but I think it was my school, bc we were down the street from a federal building which was on lockdown, I remember worrying about if it would be a target (which is silly in retrospect, bc it's a really mundane bureaucratic office, not a strategic target). My brother went to college in NYC but had taken that semester off to play music with his band--my parents hadn't really been supportive until then, but were so beyond grateful that he was home and not in NYC that day. One of his best friends from college was there too and came over to use our phone--she was desperately trying to get in touch with her father who lived there and his phone was out or the servers were overloaded. I just remember being stunned. And terrified that my boyfriend at the time, a total pacifist, would be drafted because he just turned 18, </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whats-your-911-story#post-2619795 Sun, 11 Sep 2016 20:52:11 +0000 yerpie110 2619795@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I was a freshman at Columbia university, uptown in Manhattan. I was living in the dorms and was taking a shower that morning, when a floormate burst in screaming about a plane hitting one of the towers. I thought she was crazy, but when I got out, everyone was circled around a television and we learned it was true. I ran up to my new friend's dorm, she lived on the top floor, and we watched the news while witnessing the massive cloud of smoke visible from her window. It was surreal. The university went into lockdown and we were told not to leave. My older brother was on campus (a sophomore) and I was feeling so scared and really wanted to find him, but couldn't. None of the phones worked, the whole system was jammed. All there was at that time was AIM (aol instant messenger), and I was at least able to speak to my brother through that and he calmed me down. My dad worked at columbia's uptown campus and walked down to the campus where my brother and I were at and spent hours searching for us. He was worried maybe we were downtown that morning for some reason. We all finally reunited early that evening. My dad left and used a whole variety of transportation methods (mostly walking and hitchhiking since virtually all modes of public transportation in and out of the city were closed by that point) to get home to my mom on Long Island. I will never forget how intimate and unified the city was in the aftermath of the attacks. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whats-your-911-story#post-2619780 Sun, 11 Sep 2016 20:34:48 +0000 Mrs. Pen 2619780@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I was young. Just a week out from turning 12. I was doing chores at home when my mom received a phone call to turn on the tv and I watched with her as the plane hit the second tower, and the pentagon. I didn't understand what it meant or why it was happening or who would do that, but I didn't ask questions. The gravity of it hit me in the following weeks as I watched all the adults around me react in fear, and sadness and watched the death toll increase.<br /> I visited the site seven years later when I moved to New York and it really hit me then. To this day, watching the videos and reading the stories breaks my heart and I can't help but cry for all the families whose hearts break all over again even 15 years later. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whats-your-911-story#post-2619776 Sun, 11 Sep 2016 20:28:52 +0000 youboots 2619776@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@yellowbeach: Thank you for starting this thread. The responses are compelling and profound. These perspectives are remarkable. Thank you for helping promote some healing and consideration today. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whats-your-911-story#post-2619774 Sun, 11 Sep 2016 20:27:58 +0000 ScarletBegonia 2619774@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@MrsSCB: I remember so clearly what a beautiful day it was. Like just a dream september day. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whats-your-911-story#post-2619771 Sun, 11 Sep 2016 20:25:59 +0000 muffinsmuffins 2619771@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I was in high school (in Canada) and one of the teachers ran into the cafeteria at lunch saying the USA was at war and under attack. No one knew what he was talking about until they brought in some tvs to our next classes and we watched the news. It was my high school boyfriends birthday that day as well and I remember really not feeling like celebrating in any way. Him and his stupid football friends were joking about how it ruined his birthday...high school immaturity. By the time we found out, both towers had fallen, which is so strange to think about nowadays. No one had smart phones or constant news feeds like Twitter back then to notify everyone immediately. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whats-your-911-story#post-2619762 Sun, 11 Sep 2016 20:19:26 +0000 psw27 2619762@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I was living at home getting ready to move to Boston from Houston for college. I had terrible insomnia that summer so I had just gone to bed a few hours before. My mom came in to wake me up and told me a plane hit the first tower. We turned the TV on as the second plane hit. I basically spent the day crying and watching TV with my parents. They sent my dad home from work. I remember going outside to sit by our pool just to escape the TV and thinking how weird and quiet the world was without airplanes flying over our house. Two days later we drove to Boston because I had to start college and they couldn't say when flights would start again. We drove through NYC and it was surreal to see the dust and smoke still billowing. It was a weird time to move 2000+ miles away from home to a big city for the first time. I'll never forget that day. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whats-your-911-story#post-2619757 Sun, 11 Sep 2016 20:08:13 +0000 MrsSCB 2619757@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I was in gym class the second week of my freshman year of high school. We were outside running on the track; it was a beautiful day. Someone got to our class late from a dentist appointment, and she told us a plane had hit the WTC. We spent the rest of the day watching the news. I was really worried because both of my parents worked in federal buildings in DC, and there were rumors a plane would be going there. My dad ended up having to start walking home because he couldn't get to his car. A bus driver saw him, stopped, and told him to get on, despite not having any change for the fare. Lots of small kindnesses that day. One of my classmate's dad was on the plane that hit the pentagon. My school bus drove past the pentagon every day, and it was so sad to see the destruction. My MIL was working there that day, but she was ok. I didn't know her then. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whats-your-911-story#post-2619752 Sun, 11 Sep 2016 19:58:19 +0000 T.H.O.U. 2619752@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I was in the hospital for surgery. I remember getting wheeled in to the OR and hearing nurses talking about planes hitting buildings and I thought I was just really drugged up. After surgery I had to leave the hospital really quickly because they were going on lockdown and I didn't want to be admitted. </p>