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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Thursday, May 31, 2018

Friend Request

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Oh my goodness! What a huge honor!! JESUS requested to follow me on Instagram!! Guess I’ll DEFINITELY confirm that one!! 😂😂😂
Wednesday, May 30, 2018

Hangout

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(2014) Summertime is in full swing at the Taylor house ... Bran has three friends over after baseball practice to "hang out" and e...

Outrage

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(2014) I am cracking up at Brandon because he is OUTRAGED that ESPN is showing some international spelling bee instead of baseball.  A cruel...
Tuesday, May 29, 2018

Happiness

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Happiness is .... my favorite flowers, gardenias, blooming in my yard! I love summer.

Hoarders

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WHY did I just watch the most disgusting, horrible episode of Hoarders while I was doing laundry?  What was I thinking?! Why would a person ...
Monday, May 28, 2018

Teddy Bears

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(2011) I went into Lily Claire's room tonight and saw that she had set up a little party for her teddy bears, complete with a table clot...

Southern Girl

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(2013) I am definitely raising a Southern girl!  I just asked Lily Claire what she wanted for a snack and she answered, "Yo-Grits"...

Bloated

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(2013) 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 watc...

Sweating

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(2014) 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 pla...

Big Brother

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(2015) Dyl is such a good big brother.  He's been having to pretend to be Lily's pet dolphin, Flipper, for the past hour in the pool...

Ducks

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This quite large family was in the grocery store parking lot this morning when we were! Wonder if they needed pool snacks like we did!! 😃 ...
Saturday, May 26, 2018

Love Boat

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I am cracking myself up at how happy I am being in my PJs watching Love Boat reruns after a fun day at the pool with Lily and Deb!  Doesn...
Friday, May 25, 2018

Woman Code

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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 ...
Thursday, May 24, 2018

Princess

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(2010) When Lily got out of the bath and put on her pink Disney princess nighgrown this evening, she informed me, "I a princess too, Ma...

Used Up

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(2013) Life with two brothers means that everything gets eaten or used up before Lily Claire can get to it, most of the time!  Whenever we b...
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