I planted my first real garden this year, and it’s been quite a learning process. I dutifully planted the seeds and then hovered for a week, wondering if any of them would actually grow. If you recall, Desert Blooms I’m not exactly a green thumb! Read the rest today at Our Circle of Friends
Have you ever had something in your life that you thought for sure was dead and then it came back life? We once had a snail in our fish tank that we named Lazarus…after the Biblical man Lazarus that had been dead 3 days and Jesus brought back to life. This snail was flipped [...]
Sometimes we need to take a recess from our own life in order to fully appreciate what we have. Little Miss Sunshine and T-Rex spent the past week with my Mom and Dad in Ohio. They’ve gone to Grandma and Grandpa’s by themselves before, but never for a whole week. It’s the longest we’ve been [...]
It has been an incredible week! I’ve been attending Speak Up with Confidence with Carol Kent and her team. What an amazing group of facilitators and participants, and my heart is so full! Catapult Magazine just featured an article I wrote about accepting the challenges of parenting in a post 9/11 world. You can read [...]
Next week Kedron and I will celebrate our 14th wedding anniversary, and it’s a miracle – not that we made it to 14, but that he survived the first few years. I was young, and trying so hard to be a “good wife” based on this ideal I had in my head. Sadly, my attempts [...]
My kids are pretty blessed to have some amazing men in their heritage. Not only do they have an incredibly loving and involved Dad, they have two awesome Grandpas, and one living Great-Grandpa who love them very much. They also have 3 Great-Grandfathers that they won’t get to meet until Heaven who left a pretty [...]
Little Miss is learning to tell time, and she loves to announce what time it is when she gets up. Except, she only can tell the hour time so far. So this morning she announced, “I slept in until almost 10 o’clock!” Now that, is a great way to start a summer morning! 89 days [...]
Summer has new meaning this year. 89 days. 89 days of (hopefully) warm weather (you never know here in Michigan!) 89 days before both kids are in school. 89 days of fun, fun, fun. 89 days of keeping kids out of each other’s hair…and mine. My summer writing will be focused elsewhere (when I have [...]
I planted my first real garden this past weekend. And I can’t stop fretting over it. I go out at least twice a day and hover over the bare ground searching for signs of life. It rained right after I finished planting and I worried that the seeds all washed away. Or maybe they got [...]
Amelia lives in Michigan and has been married to her high school sweetheart Kedron for almost 14 years.
Amelia started pursuing her love of writing after she and her husband moved to Florida and she left her job in marketing to stay home with their firstborn. With family and friends a thousand miles away, she found blogging the daily stories of life to be a great way to stay in touch and recognize how God's story intersects with our daily stories.
The Rhodes recently moved back to Michigan where Amelia stays at home with their two young children, Little Miss Sunshine and T-Rex. She also is a contributor at Our Circle of Friends.
contact Amelia: supergirlamelia (at) gmail (dot) com