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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Tuesday, July 31, 2018

Steve

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We have home phones that will "announce" who is calling once the phone rings.  It's a lady computer type voice that can be ha...
Tuesday, July 24, 2018

Lucky

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I am one lucky gal to come home EVERY evening after all these years and be COMPLETELY idolized and adored and smothered with undying love a...
Saturday, July 21, 2018

Scarred

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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...
Friday, July 20, 2018

IPod

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(2012) Lily confirmed today that I am successfully raising her to be a true "girl raised in the South."  She came into my room tod...

Moms

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(2012) 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...

Sweet Tea

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My first words in California in the place where we are having lunch, "Do y'all have sweet tea?" Hahaaaa!  You can take the gir...

Security

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 Skeet and I have a joke because no matter where we travel, I ALWAYS get picked to get the extra airport security scans. ALWAYS. I must be v...
Thursday, July 19, 2018

Reset

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I am a genius!!!  Skeet is out of town and I single-handedly fixed the disposal by myself!!! (Of course I just had to push a reset button .....

DVR

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Ummmm... WHO in my house DVR'd the Hooters International Beauty Pageant?!!!!  ....  Brandon?!! Dylan??!!
Wednesday, July 18, 2018

Sharks

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Lily and I were playing an elaborate game with these sharks today, pretending that she was babysitting them at the pool. She named them Fi...
Monday, July 16, 2018

Ancient

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What?! Most of the items in the antique store we visited today were from MY teenage years (see exhibit A below)!!! Seriously?!!!  Pardon me ...

Communication

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(2013) Ahhh, yes ... ever since the dawn of time, men have a hard time communicating with women.  Today, a little boy at the pool kept wanti...

Twins

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(2014) Just told Dylan that the panda at the zoo had twins!  "Aren't ALL pandas pretty much twins?"  he asked.  Good point.

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...

Sky Zone

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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...
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