Posts by jamiamerine
Sacred Ground Sticky Floors Recipes: Mormon Funeral Potatoes
Mormon Funeral Potatoes? More than a recipe, it is a legend. Yes. That is what I said. So? What is the memory you have of a childhood food? Every event, party, wedding, holiday, and yes, funeral included these potatoes. My grandma made them and served them with honey ham, warm yeast rolls, and green beans. …
Read MoreHow to Keep Your Focus While Letting Your Mind Go HOG Wild
How to focus. I am the poster child for ADHD (Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder.) Actually, it hadn’t been defined when I was a child. You know how Al Gore invented the internet? I invented ADHD. They wanted to name it after me, but during the classification hearing I escaped out a bathroom window and went running through a…
Read MoreSacred Ground Sticky Floors Recipes: Best Banana Muffins!
Jump to Recipe Delicious, easy, and quick! My Very BEST Banana Muffin recipe! I love to make a quick batch, feed the kids, and then stick one in their lunch box for lunch or an afternoon snack! Muffin cup full of sunshine!!! I have made these and also frozen them and they turn out just scrumptious.…
Read MoreAn Open Letter to My Children: #MeToo and #NeverYou
An Open Letter to My Children: #MeToo and #NeverYou As I joined the rally cry #MeToo… I dreaded all the ways I allowed creeps, losers, weirdos, and perverts – to somehow define me. Instead of rage of electric femininity or pride in everything I know to be true of me, I slunk away or laughed…
Read MoreA Prayer to be Better…
A prayer to be better… “Dear God, if I could change, if I could only be better… it would be so grand. Help me better…” God inquired, “Better at what?” “A better mother. Help me to be more attentive, more gentle, soft-spoken and sweet. Help me remember to kiss every cheek. Help me to be…
Read MoreHow to Believe God When Life Stinks Like a Poopy Diaper in a Hot Minivan
How to Believe God When Life Stinks Like a Poopy Diaper in a Hot Minivan The trouble with life is, it stinks. It stinks like a poopy diaper in a hot minivan. It stinks like a poopy diaper in a hot minivan, in July in a Walmart parking lot, with my keys locked inside, 5…
Read More#TexasStronger in 2018 – Y’all This is Home
2017 is one for the books. Hurricanes, world records, and mass shootings – we dry out, rebuild, celebrate, grieve and pray. Neck deep in the flood waters of hurricane Harvey, which made landfall in August and dumped a record 51.88 inches of rain in Cedar Bayou, Texas, we found ourselves rallying our bass boats and…
Read MoreThe After Christmas Shuffle: Life Hacks to Make it to Summer with Ease
From Christmas to Summer break, the road is long. Christmas is over. The countdown to summer is on. Before we get there, we must survive another time change, study another 180 spelling words, master those math facts, and try not to scream at the children before school… we can wait and do it after they…
Read MoreThe Care and Keeping of a Mean Girl
The care and keeping of a mean girl. At a recent doctor’s appointment, I learned my physician suspected that the greatest health crisis I was facing was… dehydration. That’s right, I am thirsty. I consider myself fairly intelligent when it comes to health and nutrition. I confess I am embarrassed by this diagnosis. Alas, I…
Read MoreHow to Know If You Should Help Suffering Children
How do you know if you should help suffering children? For many of us, this question is utterly preposterous. Of course. What a ridiculous query. I speak from experience. There is a reason I can go where I am about to go – because I said no to an injured 3-month-old baby boy. I believed…
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