Amelia Rhodes

Author, Speaker, Community Connector

Little Miss Sunshine

Stuck

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I’m waiting for The Narrator to return from Walgreens with my antibiotic and nasal spray. I started to feel yucky Thursday evening and by this morning felt like I’d been hit by a truck. I’ve had enough sinus infections to be able to feel the difference between an infection and a regular cold. As the […]

Thanks for the new tires

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Every night for a week, Little Miss Sunshine has added to her usual “Thanks for Mommy & Daddy, Thanks for Jesus, Thanks for T-Rex, Thanks for my family and all my friends” bedtime prayer. The new last line has been “Thanks for new tires.” Last week while making the hour drive home from my Grandma’s, […]

The lonely fish.

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We had a mini-tragedy happen around the fish tank today. For a long, long time we’ve had a nearly empty fish tank. Just a week and a half ago, we started to re-fill our tank. Little Miss Sunshine and The Narrator made a deal that if she cleaned her room every night for a week, […]

Lost

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March went zinging by in a whirl of wedding-dress-making and craft-show-creating. Two more new things in 2008. And now I’m working on a third – talking at a break out session for a one day mini-conference. It’s been a loooong time since I’ve talked in front of people. Now I feel like I’ve got to […]

Friday Funnies

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We were sitting at dinner when Little Miss Sunshine says to me, “Our house is crooked.” Me: Crooked? What do you mean? LMS: Leaning over to one side and tilting her head, “SEE?” Me: Leaning over to one side and tilting my head, “I guess if you look at it from this angle it is!” […]