Mama, I Miss You!

I wish Heaven had a phone so I could hear your voice again. I thought of you today, but that is nothing new, I thought about you yesterday, and days before that too. I think of you in silence, I often speak your name. All I have are memories and a picture in a frame. Your memory is a keepsake, from which I'll never part. God has you in his arms, I have you in my heart.....But I Still Miss You Mama! ♥

A Moment Of A Memory

I drove up beside my sister one day in Caldwell several years ago and rolled my window down and told her, "Your wheels are turning!" She motioned for me to pull off the road with her.I did. She got out of the car and asked me what was wrong with her wheels, I looked at her and said "well they aren't doing it now", she said "what aren't they doing?", I said "they were turning before you stopped, they aren't now" she proceed to run after me and almost caught up with me cause I was laughing so hard
I remembered this story when I was instant messaging with my dearest friend Glena, thanks!

My Amanda Rae's, 53rd Birthday Present For Me Was An Over 2 Hour Trip To Some Hot Springs, Thank You Sweetie

My daughter, Amanda Rae, who I almost lost to a kidnapper when she was in Kindergarden, wanted to take me to some hot springs for her birthday present to me. It was over a 2 hour trip. Washboard dirt road. But well worth the drive. Beautiful country. On the way up there we spotted a huge cave in the cliff side of the road. We stopped and that is the photo of Amanda Rae climbing up towards the cave.
There was a couple of kids about Amanda's age that was camped not too far from the hot springs. One of their name's is Jacob and he and Amanda hit it off very well, the other one didn't stick around. Jacob and Amanda even exchange phone numbers. He plays drums and guitar. Amanda's dad has given her a drum set a year or so ago. Jacob wants to help Amanda learn how to play. Thank You, My Amanda Rae for a very special day with you. I had a blast and I loved spending the day with you.

My 53rd Birthday Wishes From My Facebook Family and Friends, April 9th, 2010,

*Buck Jared: happy birthday tonie hope its a great one for you
*Lisa Gulick-Culley: Happy Birthday!!
*Leticia Sada Berrelez: Happy BDay:)
*Leann Norris: Happy Birthday to Tonie for tomorow!!! Are you still 29?
*Jennifer Lee Hosman: Happy Birthday Aunt Tonie, I love you and hope you have the Best Day Ever!!!!!
*Ashley Berreles: Happy birthday Tonie!!! I hope you have a great day!!!!!!!!!
*Cami Wright-Slonecker: Happy Birthday to you! Happy Birthday to you!! Haaaaapppppyyyyyyy Biiiiiiirrrrrrrtttttthhhhhddddddaaaaaaayyyyyyyy deeeeeeeaaaaaaaarrrrrrr Tonie, Happy Birthday to you!!!
I hope you have an awesome day! Love ya! Maybe next week we can all go out for your birthday mine and Ben's treat! You get to pick the place. Just let us know when works for you!
*Jazzmene Hafer: Jazzmene Hafer just wished Tonie L Campbell a HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
*Pearl Mullins: Pearl Mullins just wished Tonie L Campbell a HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
*Vicki Johnson: Happy birthday Tonie!!
*Gail A Kellogg Hope: Happy Birthday Tonie!
*Bear Paw Scriber: Happy Birthday
*Peggy Peeters: A Happpy Birthday from Belgium !!
*Glena Dusky: And Many More!
*Cathi Lane: Happy Birthday Tonie! Be blessed!
*Renee Skinner Loomis: Happy Birthday !
*Alice Ferrero: HAPPY BIRTHDAY---HOPE YOU HAVE A SUPER DAY !
*Vicky Kingen Kiele: Happy Birthday!
*Jeannie Hafer: Jeannie Hafer just wished Tonie L Campbell a HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
** Dan Pence wished a HAPPY BIRTHDAY! ** Pearl Mullins wished a HAPPY BIRTHDAY! ** Jazzmene Hafer wished a HAPPY BIRTHDAY! ** Ida L Martinez Reza wished a HAPPY BIRTHDAY! ** Ida L Martinez Reza sent a GIFT! ** Ida L Mar...tinez Reza sent a GIFT! ** Ida L Martinez Reza sent a GIFT! ** Ida L Martinez Reza sent a GIFT!
*Jeannie Hafer: Hope your day is wonderful, just like you are.
*Tom Rouleau: HAPPY BIRTHDAY TONIE
*Jimmie Lee Lightner: Happy Birthday!!!
*Sharon Mccallen: Happy Birthday to you , Happy Birthday DearTonie, Happy Birthday to you, Hope you Have a awsome day Love You!!!!!!!!
*Matthew Hafer: Matthew Hafer just wished Tonie L Campbell a HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
*Ramona Riedel: Hope you have a great birthday. Hope you can spend the day with all your family.
*Mona Schoonover: Happy Birthday !!! Have a wonderful day !!
*Christi Blodgett Riedel: Dave and I wish you a happy birthday! Get out and enjoy!
*Christy Tousignant Hines: Happy Birthday Tonie!!!
*Beth Bean Durbin: Happy Birthday my new birthday sharing friend! My best friend that lives here has the same birthday too- he is 2 yrs younger than me so the big 50 is coming at him soon! 50 doesn't seem as bad as 30 was- that really bothered me! Have a great day- hope its not snowing there- always snows a bit on my birthday!
*Rebecca Berreles: happy birthday tonie may you have a blessed day with family
*Leann Norris: "Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday dear Tonie, Happy Birthday to you....... and Many More!!!!! Have a good day and do something nice for yourself. I love you.
*Ron Nordman: HAPPY BIRTHDAY TONIE !!!! From a Indiana Buckskinner !!!! Hope ya have a GREAT day !!!!
*Tamara Cova: May you have the happiest of days! Happy birthday!
*Pat Delagarza: Happy Birthday Tonie! May you have a Great Day filled with Lots of Love & Laughter :)
*Michelle Berrelez: Happy birthday aunt tonie hope ur day is enjoyable and you have happy memories
* Ben Slonecker: Ben Slonecker just wished Tonie L Campbell a HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
*Donita Long McCarty: Happy Birthday Tonie!! Have a wonderful day!
*Johnny Delagarza: Happy Birthday!!!!!!!!!!
*Sara Pickering-Milliron: Happy Birthday Tonie! Have a wonderful Day!
*Mathew Joel Brooks: happy birthday tonie
*Lisa Kaltenbaugh: Happy Birthday Tonie! Hope your day is special.
*Dan Pence: Happy Birthday Tonie
*Brandi Campbell: Happy Birthday Aunt Tonie. I hope you have a wonderful day!
*Cindy Berreles: wanna wish you a HAPPY BIRTHDAY Tonie hope you had a wonderful day
*Tracie Shreve: Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you. and when did you become ie and not just i?
My Response to All My Face Book Family and Friends:
I want to Thank Every One Of My Facebook Friends and Family for all of the Happy Birthday Wishes. I never thought that so many would be there. You "All" Sure Know How To Make A Girl Feel Special. I had a Great 53 Birthday. Thank You All!
The photo's above are of my Birthday Cake that my bosses from work (Southside Floral) got me.
And the 3-D plague is One of my birthday presents from my husband! This is the type of man he is, on our very first date I wore a white dress. He wears hats (couple of them are like the one the guy wears in this picture) and my husband always wears suspenders. This reminded him of us. Now how super special is this? Mighty!!!!!

I had the most amazing 53rd Birthday, my husband even took me out to dinner to my most favorite place to eat, "The Golden Corral". I Love My Life!

(NOTE) The plaque, I have loaded on here several different ways, made it smaller, flipped it on it's side, upside down and I don't understand why my blog wants to keep putting it in the wrong position. Apparently it has a mind of it's own for how this picture should be today, WHAT THE HECK, Oh well, I tried and guess it's just going to have to be. Sorry that you have to lay on your side to view it. LOL

Poems Written By My Daughter And I That Was Published In A Coffee Table Book

Back about 1999 or 2000, don't exactly remember. I had wrote a poem to my youngest daughter Amanda Rae, called "Amanda Rae, My Little One" and she wrote one in response to my poem called "Thank You".
I sent these 2 poems to Poetry.com. We both won and what we got was our poems published in what is called "A Coffee Table Book". Here are those 2 poems.

"Amanda Rae, My Little One"
Amanda Rae, she's my little one!
On her special little throne she sits upon,
Just for her it was made.
She's the last little part of me I help make.
Born of such beauty,
with hazel eyes such as I.
And hair of golden hue.
She will always be my Little One!
Hope she knows how much she is LOVED
And how much I so miss my
Amanda Rae, my Little One!
I LOVE YOU...
Always,
MOM
(written by Tonie Lynn Campbell, copyright 2008)

Her response poem

"Thank You"
Thank you for the day I was born,
Thank you for my first word,
Thank you for the day my fish died,
Thank you for everything I tried,
Thank you for the day I say my vows,
Thank you for my first house,
Thank you for me,
Thank you for you.
(written by Amanda Rae Campbell, copyright 2008

The Attempted Kidnapping At Centennial Elementary, Nampa, Idaho Of My Little Amanda Rae

On October 11th. 1993 Stephanie Craine, age 9 was kidnapped in Challis, Idaho. My husband's best friend was the Detective that was working on that case. This case was never solved. I never thought in a million years this could ever happen to me. The reason my memory recalls this so well is because in March of 1994, my Stephanie was in the 1st grade and Little Amanda Rae was in Kindergarden at the Centennial Elementary School here in Nampa, Idaho. I will never forget this day and I know Amanda Rae will never forget it either. This is what happened.
A week before this had happened there was an attempted kidnapping on a teenage girl over in Boise, it failed. But same description of the car and the man driving it tried to get my daughter, too.
The school had an area for the buses only, no vehicle are allow in this area! All the kids that rides buses wait in the lines. And for unknown reasons there weren't any school monitors near by on this day.
A black Monte Carlo drove into the bus area, right next to the buses. A man wearing a black cap, a black t-shirt with an eagle in the back, black jeans and the thing that Amanda will remember forever are the snake skin cowboy looking boots this man was wearing. This mans hair had probably been dyed, because his beard was salt and peppered. This with what the police said, because his hair the week before was salt and peppered then.
This man got out of his car, walked over to my Little Amanda Rae, who was standing in the bus line, grabbed her, taking her to his car. He proceeded to try to put her in his car. Thank God for a young man who was sitting on his front step across from the school, saw this little girl who was not wanting to get put in this car, realizing some thing was wrong. He sent his girlfriend's sister into the house to call the police and he came running, making a commotion so someone would notice this guy trying to put this little girl in the car that she didn't want to get into. The guy let Amanda go and she ran to find her sister. Mike, the young man who came to Amanda's rescue knew that he needed to get the license plate, but there was none on the front or back!!!!!!! This car and man drove off and disappeared never to be seen again, at least not in this area!
The police shortly arrived, some went to search for that car, not to be found. We spent a lot of time with the police that day. A day that will never, ever be forgotten! I almost lost my little girl that day and she almost lost us! I never dreamed that this would happen to me or anyone else I knew. It just doesn't happen that way, right? WRONG, WRONG, WRONG! The next day, half of the front page of our local newspaper was about this attempted kidnapping of Little Amanda Rae.
A week later in Ontario, Oregon a young boy wasn't so lucky! They were pretty sure it was the same man and car. I never heard if they ever found that little boy. God I hope so. And I, have never gotten word that they have ever found this man. I hope somewhere that they have and put him 6 feet under! I pray that he isn't out there somewhere. There was an Angel there that day, his name is Mike!!!!

My Cure For "Mom, I Forgot My Homework At Home, Can You Bring It To School For Me" Blues

My son, Jeremy always did his homework, NEVER forgot to take it to school! BUT.... his sisters weren't so lucky! Stephanie only a couple of times but my Dear Little Amanda Rae was ALWAYS FORGETTING her home work at home.
We was living in Santa Rosa, California. The girls were going to the Sheppard Elementary School. Great school, I must say.
I would get a phone call in the morning from my Little Amanda Rae. Telling me that she forgot her homework could I please bring it to school. We lived walking distant, but I had a bicycle that I usually rode. This happened more than enough times, I had to come up with a new idea, because grounding didn't work, not getting to do some fun things didn't work. So I put my little head to work on my new idea.
And this is what I did..... AND IT WORKED....IT REALLY WORKED.... SO WELL THAT THE TEACHER'S STARTED TELLING OTHER PARENT'S WHAT I DID, SO THEY COULD USE IT, TOO!!!!
Each time I got that phone call.....
I would either put a couple of hair rollers in my hair on one side and rat the other side, every time I would mix it up, I would roll up "one" pant leg, with "a" wild stripped color sock on that foot, and "a" solid color of sock on the other foot, this pant leg normal. One time I wore shoes that didn't match, my shirt partly untuck, wear my makeup only on one side and not the other, even wore a "Jester" hat once or twice. Anything that would be out of the norm for me. And I gladly went to her school and straight to her class room and WALKED RIGHT IN!!!! I always rode my bike, actually it was a lot of fun. BUT GUESS WHAT! THE PHONE CALLS ENDED, SHE LEARNED THAT SHE BETTER TAKE HER HOMEWORK TO SCHOOL BECAUSE SHE DIDN'T KNOW WHAT HER MOM WOULD COME UP WITH NEXT.
The Sheppard Elementary Teachers were amazed in my effort and how well it really worked. They told me that they were telling other parents who had the same problem, of what I had done and how well and quickly it worked.
I Love My Kids and I Would Do Anything That Will Help Them To Get It Right!
And this is my story!