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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Friday, November 30, 2018

Wedding

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From when Lily was three ... I just asked Lily to go get in her nightgown and pull up for bed and she told me she couldn't because she ...
Sunday, November 25, 2018

Love

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(2012) I love Skeet for a lot of reasons, but right now I love him because he's watching the whole movie "My Little Pony A Very Min...

Neighbors

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(2015) Lily's bedtime question tonight, "Mama, are God and Santa next door neighbors?" Oh to be seven again.
Saturday, November 24, 2018

Reindeer

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So the guy in the Hallmark Christmas movie I’m watching just said that to find true love you must go into the wilderness under a full moon a...

Fluff

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I just feel the need to say that I hate any Christmas movie that (A) has the same day repeating itself over and over again until the charact...
Tuesday, November 20, 2018

Dead

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(2012) Tonight we walked all around Bass Pro Shop with the kids and Dylan kept trying to scare Lily about the "stuffed" taxidermy-...
Sunday, November 18, 2018

Sign

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(2013) Dylan keeps going in Lily's room to jump and wrestle around and he keeps messing up her bed and knocking over all her dollhouse f...

Economics

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(2014) Shoot me now ... Dylan "forgot" to tell me about a test he has tomorrow in economics until ten o'clock tonight. Nothing...

Balloon

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Someone felt the need to put a helium balloon that said "Get Well Soon" on a dead dear on the side of the road! Sick humor, I know...
Friday, November 16, 2018

Bible

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(2016) Laughing so hard after talking to Bran tonight!  He had to take his final in Bible class today and he didn't realize until yester...
Thursday, November 15, 2018

Torture

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(2013) Hahahahahaaa!  It is so fun to torture teenagers!! Bran was laying on the couch and the old version of Footloose was on TV.  I kept w...
Tuesday, November 13, 2018

Mini Me

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(2013) This is Lily pretending to be me, reading glasses and all!  She's just about got it right ... just needs a few more dark circles ...

Heaven

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Lily and I are snuggled in our PJs tonight sipping hot chocolate with rainbow colored marshmallows ... pretty close to heaven on earth, I...

Hero

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How to be a hero in two easy steps... 1. Receive a text that says “I’m starving” from your 15 -year-old son who is on the school bus headin...

Hot Rod

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(2017) My friends have always told me that God was laughing when he sent me two rowdy boys, being the "girlie girl" that I am and ...
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