Mother’s Day, May 8, this year, Kedron’s grandfather had a stroke. He was 82. On that Monday, I pulled Little Miss out of school to go to the hospital to see him. A large number of family gathered around his bed to see him before he headed back for surgery. It was risky, and there [...]
I’m always looking for ways my kids can feel like they are a part of our family’s giving. I recently saw on Facebook that Speak Up for Hope is collecting crayons and coloring books for the visitation areas in prisons. Speak Up for Hope is a ministry started by Carol and Gene Kent with the [...]
Vacation: : a respite or a time of respite from something Respite: an interval of rest or relief Kedron and I agreed that this was the first vacation we’d had in about 8 years. Oh, we have taken trips over the past years, but we always came home feeling like we needed a vacation [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
This past weekend marked one year since we first clutched our new house keys, teary-eyed almost afraid to believe it was true. We happily slapped paint on the walls and it felt like Christmas for weeks as we opened boxes of things we hadn’t seen in over a year. It had been 13 months since [...]
My favorite childhood authors were L.M. Montgomery and Shel Silverstein. I remember in 3rd or 4th grade taking Where the Sidewalk Ends in for show and tell and having the teacher read a couple poems. Yes, I was a book nerd who took books in for show and tell! In fact, my Shel Silverstein books [...]
Little Miss Sunshine has become quite the reader over the past year. I’m not surprised, yet it’s still been amazing to watch as a parent. I found this post from a couple years ago and it reminded me a) somethings never change – she still reads to T-Rex, and he still hangs on her every [...]
I was looking through my blog archives looking for material for an upcoming conference I’m attending, and I came across some good old posts, that made me laugh so hard I have to re-post. This is one of my favorite T-Rex stories from April 2010. Ah…enjoy again! —- The older my kids get, the more [...]
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