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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Saturday, December 29, 2018

Smoke

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Life with a 15 year old son .... Skeet and I leaping out of bed at 1 AM to the smoke alarm screaming and the smell of smoke. Run downstairs ...
Saturday, December 22, 2018

Scratch and Sniff

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This post from this day in 2015 made me laugh out loud! “Tonight I was reading several stories to Dylan and Lily, one of which was a book a...
Wednesday, December 19, 2018

A little kindness...

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I had the funniest and sweetest thing happen tonight when I stopped in Kohl’s to pick up a last-minute gift. I was super tired from a fun, b...

Fluff

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I don't want to watch any Christmas movie that is described as "a searing holiday drama” where the town has to rally to solve  some...
Monday, December 10, 2018

Contact

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I am seriously losing it. This morning I put my contacts in and could have sworn that I put in TWO contacts. However I realized I still coul...
Thursday, December 6, 2018

Blank

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Typical Skeet/Jen conversation ... Me, setting the table for our grade level Christmas party on Friday: “Skeet, should I use crackle glass ...

Squirrel

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One of my favorite Dylan moments from 8 years ago ...😂😂😂 Only Dylan!  He told us this evening that he wants to quit his basketball team....
Wednesday, December 5, 2018

Challenge

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I have an extremely hard Christmas challenge for all of you. See if you can select the correct answer below… A man asks a woman on a holid...
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...
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