It is 10:50 am as I write this. We, meaning myself and the children, have been up since 7:00 am. My children have been bickering, on and off, since 7:55. This is quarantine life. So far we have bickered over screen time, lack of screentime,…

All right friends, I’m going to keep this short and sweet so I can get you to this delicious Apple Cider Cake with Salted Cream Cheese Frosting recipe and send you on your way.  I’ve clearly been on this kick where I’ve got a lot…

If there is one thing Texas does and does well it’s thunderstorms. We do thunderstorms so well, in fact, that when other states predict bad weather, Texans just smile and say “Oh, isn’t that cute? You think you’re going to have a thunderstorm.” We’re honestly…

There is a bridge that spans the Chesapeake Bay, from one side (Annapolis, MD) to the other (Kent Island, MD). It is approximately 87.235 miles long and 1,00,000 feet high*. It is suspended right from the clouds and takes to gentle swaying with even the…

When I was in fourth grade George Michael was everything. And I mean everythang… It was the year that his epic album “Faith” came out in cassette form (look them up, kiddos, they were a thing). To a fourth grade girl, with budding curiosity about…

Can you believe this is my first recipe of 2020? And even larger than that, that it’s even 2020? I honestly can’t and am still fighting through that weird transitional period where you become a master in the art of changing a 19 into a…

I’m not sure if you’ve ever heard of it, but a few years back there was a movie called “War Room.” Aptly named yet somewhat deceiving, it’s not, in fact, about war as we traditionally think. There are no four star generals nor weapons of…

  I want to have a very serious conversation with y’all today, friends. I want to talk about something that I HATE with the passion of 10,000 blazing suns. Something that is, for all intents and purposes, supposed to bring joy to the hearts of…

Well….it’s been a hot minute, hasn’t it? I honestly don’t even know what happened, I blinked and Thanksgiving was coming in hot and heavy and I was way underprepared. This doesn’t typically happen to me. Usually, I’m all about the holiday prep and planning (because,…

Something very very exciting is happening in my life this week, friends. NO, we’re not getting a puppy. And we are absolutely not pregnant. But…. Y’all, this Texas girl is going to NYC this weekend!  This might seem like no big shakes to many of…