Sacred 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.…
An 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…
A 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…
How 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…
#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…
The 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…
The 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…
How 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…
AWWW BAHUMBUG! Three Ways to Survive a Not So Merry Holiday Season
AWWW BAHUMBUG! Three Ways to Survive a Not So Merry Holiday Season What is a mom is to do? Me personally? This year has been a humdinger. No, really. I mean this year is one for the books. Ah yes, I launched my first book… Stolen Jesus. I also turned in my second book; Sacred…
Great Lies I Tell: Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, Elvis, & Jesus
I tell great lies, crazy unbelievable tales, no sane person would believe, Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, Elvis, and Jesus. These stories are far-fetched, to say the least, but my children who trust me, they believe. Don’t you dare? Don’t even start with me, missy! Puh-lease! You know you do it, your face will stick…