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, April 30, 2018

Livin the Dream

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(2014) Yep .... Middle school is on the horizon!  Dyl asked tonight if he could invite some GIRLS to his birthday party at the skating rink....

Bandaid

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(2013) Lily Claire had her five year old check up today to get ready for Kindergarten registration on Thursday. When discussing her finger p...

Trash

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Most HORRIBLE event of my day.... I noticed that the outside recycle bin was full of rain water so I gingerly picked it up and dumped out th...
Saturday, April 28, 2018

Uno

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I am cracking up at this post on my wall "Jennifer likes Uno and The Bible."  I hope God knows it's not necessarily in that or...

Made in China

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(2016) Life with Dylan 101. He was assigned a project in his Social Studies class to learn about China. His task was to bring in a Chinese ...
Friday, April 27, 2018

Hooligan

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(2013) Had a nice ride with Brandon at the wheel this evening after supper!  He took me up to Kroger to buy some flowers for the kitchen, th...
Thursday, April 26, 2018

Integrity

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My third graders are apparently getting a bit mixed up with our fancy terminology from the year! We talk a LOT about the word INTEGRITY, and...
Tuesday, April 24, 2018

Rolly Poleys

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(2013) Today's life lesson for a nine year old boy (aka, Dylan) .... Don't leave your tennis shoes outside overnight in the spring u...

Walgreens

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We had a "Men Are From Mars" moment tonight as Skeet and I were getting ready for a formal "gala" event we were attendin...

Lyrics

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(2014) Lily and I were riding home from the baseball game and Zac Brown's new song "Homegrown" came on the radio (which is gre...

Elliptical

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What a sad state of affairs! I JUST found the power cord for an elliptical we bought a YEAR ago (yes, already a sad story), but tonight I w...
Monday, April 23, 2018

Skeleton

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(2011) 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...
Friday, April 20, 2018

Sandwiches

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(2013) Just dropped Lily Claire off at Grammie's house for a "playdate."  They are playing dollhouse together and doing puzzle...
Thursday, April 19, 2018

Mess

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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."  Tod...

Terrified

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(2011) TERRIFIED ... I've been leaving the deck door open on nice evenings so Lily can play in the backyard and this evening I saw a MOU...
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