Rhodes to Anywhere

I am so thankful for SO MANY THINGS.  What a truly amazing season of blessing, growth, peace.  I sit in awe of the goodness of life.  We had such an amazing time with my parents who came in for a few days for a visit.  It was hard seeing them go.  My sister and her husband come…

We were gifted this week with “The Jesus Storybook Bible” and audio CD’s.  It’s great for the car.  We’ve had some road trips and Emma listens and has read the whole thing.  It’s great to read at night for story time. It’s beautifully written.  I’d highly recommend it for your family(get it for Christmas!).  It…

This past summer a writer friend facebooked me and told me that Focus on the Family, Thriving Family, was looking for adoptive families who would be interested in writing an article for their November issue.  I’m not a writer.  I love to blog but there is a big difference in actually attempting to write articles…

Love that our family gets to play a small part in this with our story.   Since June,  118,000 children have been fed for a day through Rice Bowls because of the Light A Candle Feed a Child Program.  Woot Woot!  A candle company that is making a differnce in the lives of orphans!  They just posted…

Today is Izzie’s 4th Birthday.  She was born on 11/11 at 11:55 PM BUT her birth certificate says she was born on 11/12 (the hospital submitted it wrong, and I’ve yet to get that fixed) and we are celebrating her birthday next week when my parents are in town.  This equals one confused mom and…

So yesterday was a bit of a bad day for my parenting skills.  Don’t even bother asking.  And today, well it was a fresh start again.  I think today I might have parenting wow moment of the year.  You know kids when they go to the beach just want to throw sand.  And of course…

Emma brought home a beautiful self portrait today.  I think she may have a little bit of artistic ability in her. I love that she loves to draw. She’s been a trooper on this little journey we are on.  So much has changed in her world in the past 8 weeks.  And of course she has done…

November is Adoption awareness month!  Just this weekend we got news that the Darleys were matched with their daughter!  Take a look at this sweet girl…  Introducing Rylyn Mackenzie Darley.  She’s from Taiwan and you can follow the Darleys adoption blog here.  I’m sure they will be posting more news soon. This little girl has no…

Decisions.  They play a major part of our lives.  Some of them we make and some of them are chosen for us.  Regardless they are there almost every moment of every step we take.   A decision a few years ago to return to Haiti gave me so many blessings.  One decision – resulted in adoption and friendship and…