Alyssa Ballard

Lord, let my story be a glimpse of your glory. 🌻

[Alyssa Ballard @Alyssa_Ballard]

When he says, "let's go get some food"

[The Biblical Man @Biblicalman]

My father once told me the secret to a happy marriage.

“Stay out of the kitchen. Let her handle the holidays.”

I was 19. He was in his recliner.

My mother was cooking for 14 people.

She’d been up since 5 AM.

He’d been up since the football pregame.

I didn’t think anything of it.

That’s just how it was.

Fast forward 20 years.

I’m in the recliner.

My wife is in the kitchen.

She’s been up since 5 AM.

I’ve been up since the pregame.

My daughter walks by and I see her watching.

Not the TV.

Her mother.

Then me.

Then her mother again.

That’s when it hit me:

She’s taking notes.

My father taught me that holidays were for men to rest and women to work.

He didn’t say it.

He showed it.

Every Thanksgiving.
Every Christmas.
Every Easter.

The recliner passed from him to me like an inheritance I never asked for.

This morning I woke up at 4 AM.

Not for content.

For the turkey.

My wife found me in the kitchen at 6.

She didn’t say anything.

She just stood there.

Then she cried.

Your kids are taking notes.

Not on what you say.

On where you sit.

The recliner is an inheritance.

Be the generation that stands up.

[Alyssa Ballard @Alyssa_Ballard]

@TxStormChasers Are we safe in Seguin?

[Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley]

I have no issue with a sitting president attending an event with the American people. However, if your mantra is extreme efficiency and cutting waste—while labeling things like cancer research and veterans’ benefits as waste—you have no business participating in events like this.

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

True freedom gives each of us the right to make decisions about our own life – how we worship, who we marry, what our family looks like. And we believe that freedom requires us to recognize that other people have the freedom to make different choices.

That’s what @KamalaHarris and @Tim_Walz believe.

[WeRateDogs @dog_rates]

Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!

[Houston Astros @astros]

We literally love Justin Verlander.

[Alyssa Ballard @Alyssa_Ballard]

@wfaaweather We’ve got quarter size hail in Garland, Pete!

[Houston Astros @astros]

2x World Series Champions.

[Houston Astros @astros]

Known Houston Astro fan Mark Wahlberg.

[Alyssa Ballard @Alyssa_Ballard]

Hey @parris_reed, I’m finally going tomorrow!!!! Better late than never!? @ryanchism

[Alyssa Ballard @Alyssa_Ballard]

100% not even denying this. 🤷🏼‍♀️ who wouldn't want to eat with their hands and watch people joust!? https://t.co/uOQ1tIuOYD

[AARON @lidolmix]

i’ll be home for quismoiss

[Houston Police @houstonpolice]

HPD made one arrest during today’s victory parade. A male, 33, threw a beer can at U.S. Senator Ted Cruz as the Senator was on a float in the 2400 block of Smith St. The beer can struck the Senator in the chest/neck area. The Senator did not require medical attention.
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[Paul Gallant @GallantSays]

The real video you all wanted. #LevelUp

[Jared Carrabis @Jared_Carrabis]

For the 13th consecutive year, the New York Yankees have been eliminated from postseason contention.

[❄️Denali❄️ @denalifox]

should i work on my mental health or should i redownload the sims

[Drew Hoolhorst @drewber]

just heard someone say “they’re not symptoms of depression, they’re blues clues” and that’s how i’m going to explain being sad forever now.

[Barstool Sports @barstoolsports]

Baby Godzilla is just out here swimming in the ocean @StoolOutdoors https://t.co/EU3iWWxiiC

[Fort Worth Police @fortworthpd]

Detectives are investigating what that wet stuff falling from the sky is.

#hmmm

[Beto O'Rourke @BetoORourke]

Great to see that Abbott has finally agreed to join me for a debate.

Looking forward to holding him accountable for his indefensible record during 3 town hall-style debates across the state where we'll both take questions directly from voters.