Rhodes to Anywhere

First, thank you all of you who took time to encourage me and challenge me to continue to do what all of us do… tell our story.  Needed a little air and lift under the kite as it was getting really close to touchdown.  I think Corey said it best when she commented to me..”blogging…

For all of you who thought something happened to me, I’m still here, I promise!  I’ve had people contacting me this past week checking in making sure all was ok since I’ve not been posting much.  It’s been a crazy month here of schedules and sickness.  Oh my word… we have never had sickness pass…

“We don’t have a missional problem in the United States, we have a discipleship problem.” I heard that stated yesterday and could not help but have those words penetrate my heart in total agreement.  Needless to say I personally have been in the mode of processing a lot of things over the past year.  One…

A few weeks ago I did a post for Wayfarer on how Dave and I met.  Being valentines day I figured it would be a perfect time to post it here on my blog.  I’m a romantic at heart.  I LOVE a love story.  I love that I feel like I live the ultimate one. …

I am so full.  I am so thankful. It’s really very simple.  Dave and I have been SUPER busy and are doing fantastic.   The kids are brilliant little people keeping me on my toes.  Dave’s  family, my family are so encouraging and supporting. The friends surrounding my life are nothing short of inspiring.  The path we are journeying with our community has…

(Frankie and his friends) As I continue  to reflect this week on the journey that allowed Frankie to come home this time last year I wanted to share some answers to some questions we’ve been asked a lot.  The first and most common question, why did you grow your family through adoption? We had infertility…

The kids have been out of school all week.  We’ve kind of taken it day by day not knowing if school would be in session the following day.  Looking back it would have been nice to know it was going to be all week long.  It’s interesting to watch the unexpected things play out in…

In the crazy times of the past few weeks with packing up from our time in Pawleys and heading back to Greenville I never got the chance to share with you all about the launch of Frankie’s Candle.  A few weeks we were with the Bridgewater Candle Company as they hosted their reps from across…

Last November Dave and I were in Haiti visiting Frankie.  It was Dave’s first time to Haiti.  On one of our last days we rode to a lookout of the city on a foggy day.  We could not see much once we got up into the clouds. While up there we saw some paintings.  I…

Woke up this morning with a heavy heart.  Haiti has been on my mind so much this week.  I often find myself during the day thinking back.  This time last year I was on a flight home from Orlando.  I had just spent the weekend with a bunch of moms and friends I had met…