Hallelujah! Major milestone!
It finally happened. After four and a half months, I finally heard this song without bursting into tears. I only welled up a little and then sucked it up and kept my cool. It's a huge milestone for...
View ArticleThree Little Thankfuls
It started six years ago with a little writing assignment. We were instructed to write about three little thankfuls. Not the obvious things like family, faith, health or wealth. We were required to...
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Took some effort, but it feels like Christmas around here...
I've been terrible about updating our family blog. It's been such a whirlwind year with so many comings and goings and changes and craziness that I simply haven't been able to keep up on everything. I...
View ArticleNo reason not to...
I've had the intention to write this blog entry for several weeks now. It's been rolling around in my brain and I've been acting on the thoughts, but I want to write it all down, too, because it's been...
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Knock Knock Knock... "Mommy, the police are at the door!"
*DISCLAIMERS*1- My neighborhood rocks and I appreciate the fact that concerned citizens took action to protect our community.2- In light of recent events, I recognize that this may not seem like a...
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Then and now... four years later!
Molly has been dying to get a particular cake at Sam's Club for her 5th birthday because it was a mini-cake (for her!) surrounded by cupcakes (for everyone else!) The reason she wanted this particular...
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I Heart Faces Photo Challenge - Play
Getting back in the swing of blogging and participating in the I Heart Faces Photo Challenge. This month's theme: Play. I love this shot of Molly clicked during a wee break from her play time at the...
View Article2012 Highlights (yep... I said 2012)
At the end of 2011 we decided to make a little family video using photos to highlight our year and then send the video to extended family so they could see our kids growing up and see our adventures...
View ArticleKid Funnies - Toby Style
Tonight was Brady's turn to say family prayer. Our kids would fight so much every single night over whose turn it was to pick a song and say a prayer that we finally had to put a schedule into place to...
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Summer Search.... Take Two!
A hundred years or so ago (way back in 2006) the kids and I embarked on a grand summer adventure: The Summer Search for the Perfect Park. We had a blast during Ben's little three week summer break...
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Best surprise vacation ever!
I've got a LOT of catching up to do. This summer has been overwhelming, to say the least. We sold/gave away/tossed a houseful of furnishings for the second time in twelve months, packed up the...
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And they're back!
Apparently I wrote this... and promptly forgot to post it. Huh. Weird. Here it is, a month later...
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What a wonderful, whirlwind weekend!
Whirlwind weekends are best showcased in pictures, right? Here come a LOT of them!!! Our busy-ness actually started a little over a week ago and I'll include those pics, as well!Brady turned 12 last...
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Happy Happy Happy Halloween 2013
It's that time of year again! And I'm going to be honest here... I must have giggled in pure delight about fifty times tonight when I looked at each of my family members and saw how perfectly they each...
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Molly Art
Molly loves to draw. I get a handful of drawings from her every day. Much like Monet and his water lilies, Molly follows a consistent theme in much of her art work: Mommy & Me.This is what almost...
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Happy Halloween History - Campbell Family Style!
A few weeks ago the awesome team at Comic Con Family asked if I would be willing to do a bit of Q&A regarding our family Halloween costume tradition for them to feature on their site. And of course...
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A Last First...
As the baby of our family, everything that Molly does for the first time marks a "last first time" for our little Campbell family. Tonight was a big milestone for her, and a last first moment for Daddy...
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Wearing a new hat...
I'm not busy enough in life, y'know? I just sit around with nothing to do all day (ha!) so I should go ahead and get myself a new gig to keep me busy. Hehehe. In all honesty it was an opportunity that...
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17 Years and Counting
The day we met. Pretty cool to have pics together the very day we met :)August 2, 1996Engaged September 21st. Originally planned to get married on Valentine's Daythe following year. That plan lasted a...
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Three Little Thankfuls
Many years ago I took part in a blogging community writing group. One of my favorite writing assignments in that group was to write about three little thankfuls. Not the obvious and big things we...
View ArticleMagical Molly Moment...
Molly lost her 2nd tooth yesterday. The day before, she'd tried to open a sports bottle top with her teeth (duh!) and it dramatically loosened a tooth that was already quite wiggly. She said she was...
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101 Things in 1001 Days
A few times a year I am asked to write an article for the Scrap Girls newsletter. I had one of my articles published in the newsletter this week and wanted to share it here. You can see the entire...
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Campbell Family 2014 Year in Review
This is my third blog post of 2014. Wait, what?! Only three blog posts in an entire year? I'll address my lack of blogging in a later post. That's right... I will address it! I have every intention of...
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Now you see it, now you don't...
Miss Molly has been asking for a haircut "like Emma G's" for a long while. Emma G is a friend in her school class with, you guessed it, a cute little short hairdo. But Molly also asks for braids and...
View ArticleWho is the eff I?
Hi. Remember me? I used to blog. Then came Facebook. Quick snippets replaced detailed stories. And no one wanted to follow a link to a blog post, so writing out the long stories just for myself started...
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