“I wish I had more time!” I am saying that far too often these days. And, it sure seems true when I think it and/or utter it. I am finding that I wake up tired most days, and often go to bed later than I thought I would. And understandably, have much to do in…
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Tradition, Tradition!
As far back as I can remember, my family has always celebrated New Year’s Day with a big meal featuring pork, sauerkraut, mashed potatoes, and corn bread. My dad enjoys throwing in some baked clams, but I’ve chosen to leave those out of our version of the family tradition… 🙂 This year was no different….
On Being Thankful
This is the day we are thankful. All over our country we spend the day—even the whole weekend—thinking about the things for which we are thankful. Sometimes we have cute ways of saying it. You know, like the annual “go around the table and say what you’re thankful for” exercise. Or maybe it’s a more…
Clocks
Sometimes in life, you just have to take the bad with the good. I’ve always loved the “fall back” Sunday, where you get an hour of your life back. Who couldn’t use an extra hour!? Either another hour of sleep in the morning, or really, whatever suits your fancy! The extra hour was always especially…
Thankful
There are days that it’s incredibly hard to see the good side. Where you’re so completely overwhelmed by the crushing weight of sadness, or failure, or just plain pain that you can’t see a way out of and seems it will never end. For whatever reason, we’ve had more than our share of those around…
Good (Competitive) Family Fun!
For the last two, or maybe three years we Campbells have been having some more interactive fun with the weekly NFL games. Not only do we enjoy watching as much of them as we can on weekends, we also try to predict the outcome of each, and we have quite the “set up” to track…
Book Sales Are Dangerous
Our library has a book sale annually where they weed out their own collection as well as receive hundreds of donations from generous library users and other friends of the library. It goes on for quite a while after the official sale portion. The starting price is $1.00 for a hardcover book and $0.50 for…
A Few Things I Love
Tonight I was noticing several things I love about our family, and I just wanted to write them down. I love that our family reads. I mean really reads. We took our customary Monday walk to the library this afternoon (with MOM this time, since Grammy & Grandpa were here to stay home with the…
The Family That Reads Together…
I absolutely love reading with my kids. Love it. I think I especially love reading stories that stretch out over days and weeks (even months in the case of some longer books the boys and I have read together, like Oliver Twist, and Nick of Time). The pure joy of entering new worlds every time…
(A Very Brief) iPad Review
Last week we went up to our local Apple Retail Store and got to actually touch the new iPad! And, yes… it was fantastic, as advertised. I thought it might be fun to highlight a couple of things that I noticed and would say make the iPad worth the purchase. Certainly you may have a…