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, May 28, 2017

Southern Girl

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I am definitely raising a Southern girl!  I just asked Lily Claire what she wanted for a snack and she answered, "Yo-Grits", which...

Air Mattress

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Dylan and Lily are going to watch a Lego Batman movie and they want me to get out the air mattress for them to lay on while they watch.  Lil...

Sweating

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Had a lunch date with the kids after the puppet show this morning!  They wanted to go to McDonalds so they could also play on the playground...
Thursday, May 25, 2017

Woman Code 101

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Ok, really?!  We went out for lunch after church and a lady stopped to admire some jewelry I was wearing.  As I am about to say "thank ...
Monday, May 22, 2017

Redneck

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Brandon's joke for the day: "You know you're a redneck if your alligator has braces."

Hunk

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Lily was describing Robert Skeet Taylor at lunch: "a person with black white gray hair, wrinkly forehead, hairy arms, and a scratchy fa...
Friday, May 19, 2017

Gatorade

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This is what you must resort to when you live with boys who eat and drink everything in the house ...even the brand new flavor Gatorade I bo...
Thursday, May 18, 2017

Laundry

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Seriously considering burning all the dirty laundry in a bonfire in the backyard rathering than doing it all today!  No one would notice a t...

Jewel-Ball

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Lily just asked me if she could have a JEWEL-BALL.  ????  Finally realized she was trying to say GERBIL!  I think the Jewel-Ball is a better...
Wednesday, May 17, 2017

Grumpy Princess

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Lily Claire had to dress up as a fairy tale character for preschool today, which sounded super fun last night, but this morning, Lily wasn...

New Number

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Saw something soooo funny today ....  a church had apparently moved to a new location and all you could see from the road was their former s...
Tuesday, May 16, 2017

Pure Heaven

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Wow ... Perfect "almost summer" evening in Georgia. Taking a walk alone ... 63 degrees, breeze blowing, the sun almost ready to di...
Saturday, May 13, 2017

Lipstick

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So I delievered some news to Lily Claire last night that was followed by ten minutes of uproarious squealing, jumping, twirling, and clappin...

"Bandsintown"

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I signed up for this site called "Bandsintown" that tracks when music groups that you like are going to be in town doing concerts....
Wednesday, May 10, 2017

Foreign Creatures

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Lily Claire comes downstairs after her bath this evening and Skeet says in all seriousness, "Hey Lil, you forgot your pajamas on the bo...
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