Red Clay and Glitter: Tales of a Southern Mama

True and funny stories from the lighter side of raising my sons and daughter. As the Southern mama of this crew, I'm usually somewhere between "Bless your hearts!" and "Y'all act like you got some sense!" If we ever need to find our way home, we just follow the trail of red clay and glitter.

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Sunday, April 25, 2021

Naked and Afraid

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 Robert Skeet Taylor loves the show Naked and Afraid, and I must admit, it sucks me in every time! The other night while we were watching an...
Friday, April 23, 2021

Skeleton

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(2012) Life with Dylan:  This morning we were talking about Easter and I said, "Jesus died for us then rose from the grave three days l...
Wednesday, April 21, 2021

Favoritist

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 (2012) I gave Lily a new Berenstain Bears book this morning and she gasped real big and said, "Wow! This is my most favoritest book I ...
Monday, April 19, 2021

Ragamuffin

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 (2011) Whenever Lily Claire has been outside playing and she looks a mess, I tell her she looks like a little "rag-a-muffin."  To...

Weirdo

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(2016) Helping Bran with a paper for his British Lit class tonight that is about how the Victorian ideals of the time were portrayed in Dick...
Friday, April 16, 2021

Best Friend

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(2010) Lily Claire's teacher told me today that her little two year old classmates were on the floor at circle time and each child in th...
Wednesday, April 14, 2021

Memories

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 (2012) I pulled out Brandon's baby book of pictures to show him tonight and Lily rushed over and said, "Ooooo ... I want to look a...

Broadway

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 (2014) PROUD PROUD parent moment ... Dylan has a part in the 5th grade school musical.  He is CAMPER ITCH-ALOT and apparently he has to ...

Grass

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 (2014) Bran was recounting to me a recent dinner he had at an Italian restaurant.  He said the waitress came and asked him if he wanted a C...
Monday, April 12, 2021

Law

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ALERT FRIENDS AND FAMILY... Thanks to Lily, I was made aware of an important new law for EVERYONE in America that will apparently go into ef...

Rules

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 One of the hallmarks of being a Southern mother .... reminding your kids of every rule of good manners ever known to man while taking them ...
Tuesday, March 30, 2021

Rap

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 (2011) Bran is singing a super obnoxious "rap" song he's making up about macaroni and cheese and then he informed me that it ...

Lion

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(2020)  I had to go by the grocery store tonight and Lily went with me. I was complaining a little to her that I was tired of not being able...
Saturday, March 27, 2021

Blind

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 (2018) Guess I was cheering too loudly for Dyl at his ballgame because Lily turned to me and said, “Sshhhh, Mom! You’re making my ears go b...
Sunday, March 21, 2021

Rude

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 (2013) Lily Claire asked me, "Does the Easter Bunny come at night while we're sleeping and hide eggs where no on can find them?...
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