My Husband--My Life--My Everything
This page is still under construction....there is of course lots to say...
My husband is Christopher Campbell. He just celebrated his 32nd birthday and this year will mark his 11th year working at Kmart where he is a department manager. He has incredibly brilliant green eyes and the most wonderful smile. He's shy and reserved, but has the biggest heart in the world. To see him playing with our children is like a gift from heaven. I could sit and watch them play and hear the laughter forever. He's a kid at heart.
He went to college and got a degree in English and even a certificate to teach high school English, but chose instead to write in his spare time and keep his steady job at Kmart. He has had lots of poetry praised and published and finally had a magazine article published last year, and has another being published soon. I am so incredibly proud of him!! We will celebrate our 11th wedding anniversary this October 19th. He is an incredible man... but there is a story to tell -- So read on...
We met our senior year of high school in Rogersville, Tennessee. He had moved down here from Detroit just the year before, but we'd not had a class together til our senior year. We had English and Physics together. Our first English assignment was a kind of show and tell report. I reported on Wales and baked Welsh cookies for the class. I forgot the marmalade to serve with them, and no one really liked them. But the next day in Physics class, Christopher came to my desk and squatted down to look up at me pleading for the recipe for the Welsh cookies. He said he loved them! That started a wonderful friendship which lasted for years.
I actually fell head over heels for him that day in Physics class. However, he had no clue. We ended up going to the same college since I wanted to stay with him. Luckliy, I made the right decision... We didn't start out together in college.. we were friends,but nothing more. Our friendship was too important for me to risk losing him by telling him how I felt. So he found another girlfriend and I got another boyfriend. However, by the time he was a senior in college(I quit college our freshman year), we had broken up with the others and finally realized it was time for us to be a couple. During all that time, our friendship grew and we became very close.
We were married in October of 1991. He graduated college in the spring of 1992 ten days after our first daughter was born. The first few years of marriage were hard, but we got through it. We did without a lot, but we knew we had a strong family and lots of love. Christopher worked as hard as he could to provide for us from the very beginning. He has never been afraid of work, and I've always been so proud of him.
He never got that teaching job he had gone to college for, but by then he'd realized he didn't like teaching afterall. He got a part time job at Kmart over the Christmas season, and they loved him so much they kept him on afterwards. He had to take an overnight stocking job in order to get full time. Finally he got benefits and a higher pay. After two years of the night shift, he was promoted to a dept manager during the day. He is now the dept manager over the largest dept at the store.
We were never good with money in the beginning and so was unable to buy a house in the first years of our marriage like most couples do. However, we've finally gotten back on track and thanks to Christopher's hard work, we'll be able to get our dream home in the next few years. I know its been hard on Christopher to not have his own space to write or just get away from the kids.
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