Red Dirt Roots

How to: Save Money!

April 24, 2013

Hey everybody! I posted this to my friend’s blog a few months ago and I thought I would share it today to change pace a bit! If you know me well in real life, you’ll know I’m pretty thrifty. I’m just sharing this a bit in hopes it might help someone who’s trying to save [...]

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Enough, already.

April 11, 2013

Just preparing you now, I’m sharing pretty raw emotions. I’m trying to work them out. I’m having a hard time remembering that God is more than enough when the truth is, I’ve had enough. I am almost 29 weeks pregnant. That means in plus or minus 11 weeks, a baby will be here. My baby. [...]

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Growing up and standing up

March 21, 2013

I am wrapping up my last week in Texas. It’s considerably more mournful than I anticipated. I feel as though I am leaving a world behind. I am leaving friends, family, and opportunities behind. More importantly, I know that life will go on — so I feel as though I am being the one left [...]

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Coming Back Home

March 13, 2013

When I was a teenager, I swore I would never return home. I turned 18, graduated high school, and packed up and moved to a small school in Texas where I didn’t know a soul. I spent 4 of the most amazing years there and made friends I’ll cherish forever. I met my husband, got married, [...]

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Packing Tips for a Stress-free Move

March 12, 2013

I simultaneously love and hate packing. Not counting college years, I have packed my entire household 7 times in the last 7 years. This doesn’t count small moves. This time is a little harder than usual because I have Bluebelle with me and I have physical limitations. I can’t tell you how many times I [...]

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The best bubble bread recipe ever.

February 21, 2013

First of all, I know some of you are going to look at this and say, “Isn’t that just monkey bread?” Well, I guess it could be, but my grandma calls this bubble bread. It’s not the typical canned biscuits and cinnamon/sugar recipe either. “Monkey” bread never made much sense to me (and I even [...]

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Chasing after peace

February 5, 2013

Sometimes I have to shut down my social media and close my eyes to escape it all. There’s so much drama. Pictures and videos of conspiracy theories and rants against the government, angry diatribes of slighted moments and the constant fear of losing something we never really had in the first place. It makes me [...]

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Childhood memories of Don McLean

December 13, 2012

Don McLean always reminds me of my dad. When I was a child, I didn’t get to spend all the time I wanted with my dad. I don’t think many of us do, because so often our dads are the ones working as hard as they can to provide for us. My mom went through [...]

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LHS: Ten years later

October 8, 2012

I will admit, I started to get nervous about my class reunion. To be fair, I think most of us did. We’ve changed. We remember what it was like 10 years ago and we recognize how different we are … but we tend to keep everyone else the same. I hear all the time, “I [...]

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Baking Bread.

February 4, 2012

There are some things in this world that give me comfort no matter where I am in my life. I know that sometimes I seem like a “motherly cliche” with all my domestic endeavors and besides the fact that I am too much of a feminist to actually survive this era, I would be perfect [...]