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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Monday, July 31, 2017

Stop Calling, Steve!

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My funny story for this week ... we have home phones that will "announce" who is calling once the phone rings.  It's a lady co...

Pokémon Go

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Dylan wanted to play Pokemon Go during the sermon in church this morning. Of course I looked "shocked" and said, "NO!" T...
Saturday, July 29, 2017

Brandon 101

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Life with Brandon Taylor 101:  if your mom piles all the clothes, socks, hats, food wrappers, and Gatorade bottles from your floor to your b...

REALLY Old

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Bran was telling me tonight about some car show he had been watching on TV and he said, "Cool, Mom, they totally remodeled this REALLY ...

Dry cleaning

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Embarrassing moment of the day:  I took some clothes from our trip to the dry cleaners and obviously had not done a good job of sorting out ...
Friday, July 21, 2017

Men's Room

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Recieving the "mother of the year" award again today (hope you note the sarcasm there)!!!  Went to a different Walmart than our us...
Thursday, July 20, 2017

Moms

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Lily Claire asked me if God could hear us.  I said, 'Yes, God always hears us and watches after us and takes care of us and loves us!...

Hooters

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Ummmm... WHO in my house DVR'd the Hooters International Beauty Pageant?!!!!  ....  Brandon?!!
Sunday, July 16, 2017

Hell

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I've died and woken up in hell. Oh no, wait ... I'm just trying to get my boys to do their summer reading with the dreaded assignm...

Men vs. Women

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Ahhh, yes ... ever since the dawn of time, men have a hard time communicating with women.  Today, a little boy at the pool kept wanting to g...

Twins

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Just told Dylan that the panda at the zoo had twins!  "Aren't ALL pandas pretty much twins?"  he asked.  Good point.

Terminology

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Last night as we were reminiscing about the day, Dylan says to Lily and me, "Wow ... Sky Zone was so awesome!!! .... Except that one ti...
Thursday, July 13, 2017

Cat Jail

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Several years ago on our mountain Trip, Lily tried to pet a cat that was wandering around and it scratched her. So she got her revenge by dr...

My Son

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Yep. Bran's my son. He likes to drive barefoot, windows down, country music playing.

Bible Humor

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A few weeks ago in "Mom's VBS," we learned about Joseph.  Lily and I happened to get this drink at the store last week and we ...
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