I am currently reading a book along with my son, Ian, called Take Back The Land, by Rick Boyer. Mr. Boyer is a home schooling superstar. If you home school, chances are you are already familiar with him. (If you’re not familiar with the book, I highly recommend it—and I’m only a few chapters in!)…
The Way Things Are
When I think of the ugliness of the way most of us selfishly fight to get what is “ours”, often based on an unnecessary fear of rejection and/or insecurity… my heart is saddened almost to the point of despair. Why, God? Is this the beautiful world you created? Quickly my mind is ushered to the…
D-Day: When Things Mattered
Last night we honored D-Day (June 6th) by watching an episode of Ken Burns’: The War (on Netflix). It follows the lives of four guys who lived through WWII, and specifically that day in Normandy. It invoked so many thoughts and emotions… I certainly can not describe and share them all here. The one prevailing…
Pure, (Truly) Awesome Creativity
We use the word “awesome” far too often in our culture. That sounds like something you’ve heard your grandpa say, or your great-grandpa. (Or his grandpa…) We assign it to anything and everything: sporting events or just a moment in said event, a movie, a meal, and pretty much anything that may happen in the…
NASA Crushes 2012 Mayan Apocalypse
Well, leave it to the party poopers at NASA to crush the dreams of all of the big fans of Mayan prophesies and general time keeping skills. It seems that the head of the Near-Earth Objects Program has quite handily decimated any and all the claims of global apocalypse, mayhem, end-of-the-world predictions as well as…
[FromTheArchive] I’ll Never Make a Million
Recently, money has been a big issue again here in the Campbell household. I wonder if it just is for every household. I know it’s not for some. But I think it might be for many, if not most. And it is here. Sadly it seems there are times where the topic of money (money…
It’s Official: We’re A Big Family
We’ve been a family of eight for quite a while now. Coming up on three years this July! So, in many ways, we’ve been a big family for a good long while. But now, you might say it’s official. 🙂 We are picking up our new-to-us, 12-passenger, Ford E-350 XLT big red van! These larger…
It’s An Interesting Time To Be A Buffalo Sports Fan
If you follow sports, you know that Buffalo is more often the butt of a joke rather than a real “player” in whichever sport is being discussed. Whether that’s deserved, or not, that’s usually how it goes. They do bring it on themselves. Neither the Buffalo Bills, nor the Buffalo Sabres have won the championships…
“Who Does Dad Love?”
Putting Cam in bed is usually a job for Dad. It’s great fun, actually. Cam and I definitely “bond” at these regular meetings. We’ve come up with plenty of fun regular rituals: which blanket goes where, which book is read first, and so many more entertaining—and important!—routines that perhaps I’ll elaborate in a future post….
Birthday Season (And Sabbatical)
Birthday season is upon us here in the Campbell home. Today is the first of three birthdays in two weeks. We’ll be celebrating it up in our typical style—the birthday girl will be well-celebrated! (If you’d like to read the story of her very first birthday, please do…) So, with that information in hand, I…