Meet Heather Campbell

Hi there! I’m Heather, but honestly no one ever calls me that. My kids call me “mommy” because I refuse to let them call me “mom.” I told them they could call me that when they are 30. My hubby calls me “babe,” which is nice of him since that baby weight after baby #2 is still lurking around like a crazy stalker. My close friends and family call me HJ (middle name Jean). I even tried to get a couple of my friends to start calling me Hannah (or Skylar) after high school because Heather just didn’t sound like me. ANYWHO…I’m Heather. So happy to meet you!

I’m a part-time working Momma with her own business, a full time Stay at Home Momma, head chef, chauffeur, boo-boo kisser and chief time-out setter for 2 kiddos. My daughter Charlize is 6 going on 16 and my son, Britton, is 3 and wearing 5T clothes. People often ask me if they are twins. Nope.

The theme to my motherhood journey has been “lessons and laughter.” I can actually see myself paragraphs deep into some stance on how ridiculous it was that all the SUVs I see driving around had TVs going inside. This was of course when I had no kids. I literally know I said…”why can’t kids just look outside.” Ha! I remember when we first got our minivan and we made a deal that that video screen was only going to come out when we took LONG road trips. And I can laugh now when the first thing we discuss when we are headed to the grocery store is whether to watch Umizoomi or Go Diego Go.

I’m the Mom who started out at the Birthing Center with a 6-page long birth plan and an 18-hour long playlist and ended up with a beautiful C-section breach baby. The Mom who cloth diapered her first and was so passionate about it that I almost opened a cloth diaper store here in Austin, only to have a second baby who had a lengthy hospital stay never once had a cloth diaper touch his butt. Who knew?! Turns out my mantra of motherhood is really more like “grace upon grace.”  

I’m also a sticker person. I had a sticker book as a child (which I probably have around here somewhere) and now I’m one of the last 7 people on earth who scrapbook, though maybe the movie Trolls will bring that back. (If you haven’t see that movie yet, 1^st shame on you…the music is great and 2^nd, the cute pink Troll ‘Poppy’ scrapbooks) I also tend to reward myself with stickers. I have one of those old school planners and if I’m trying to meet personal goals for the week I still feel great said week is full of stickers. I think I should blame my childhood piano teacher for all of this. She was the first to uncover that I would do just about anything for a good sticker.

I didn’t grow up in Austin. I moved here in high school, moved away for college, then back, then away again, then back, then away, and at this point, have decided that moving away, only to spend all the time living away plotting how to get back to Austin, is silly. Austin is home.

My hubby Andrew is a native Austinite born and raised. I know right, I didn’t think they existed either. We met at work while we were both working in advertising. I’m pretty sure on our first date we knew we would have a daughter and find a way to call her Charley. Andrew and I are planners. We like to look ahead in life. And it seems life would like to continuously teach us the lesson, “life doesn’t always go as planned.” Alright already, we get it!  

SO that’s just a smidge about me. Now I have to run and grab that sticker to put in my planner. Let’s talk soon!

— Heather or Skylar, whichever you prefer.