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, May 10, 2019

Goose

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Raise your hand if you were on your way to work at 6:30 AM this morning and stopped the cars on both sides of Five Forks at Sugarloaf during...

Awkward

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Weird story for the day ... I went into McDonalds to get the kids a biscuit for breakfast before church, and while I was waiting a lady walk...

Nightgown

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Lily comes downstairs after her bath this evening and Skeet says in all seriousness, "Hey Lil, you forgot your pajamas on the bottom....
Thursday, May 9, 2019

Irony

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Irony: I’m watching a survival show with Skeet and I’m sitting here harshly criticizing this lady for complaining and refusing to eat a big ...
Wednesday, May 8, 2019

Mom

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One of my favorite memories of the boys is perfect for Mother's Day: one day when the boys were younger, they were arguing and bickering...
Monday, May 6, 2019

Ice Cream Cone

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(2012) You gotta love 3rd grade baseball ... it was super hot at the field, one kid overheated, one kid broke his thumb, the team lost .... ...
Sunday, May 5, 2019

Monstrosity

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ONLY for her 17 year old son would a true Southern woman ever be caught dead ordering something at Wendys called a TRIPLE BACON-ATOR BURGER ...
Tuesday, April 30, 2019

Shot

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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...

Girls

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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....

Mouse

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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...
Sunday, April 28, 2019

China

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(2014) 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 ...

Uno

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I am cracking up at this notice from FB on my wall "Jennifer likes Uno and The Bible."  I hope God knows it's not necessarily ...
Saturday, April 27, 2019

Hooligan

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(2014) 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 25, 2019

Survival

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Robert Skeet Taylor loves the show Naked and Afraid, and I must admit, it sucks me in every time! The other night while we were watching an ...
Monday, April 15, 2019

Skunk

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(2013) Dylan came home all dirty and sweaty from his batting practice then played outside until dark.  When he came in, Lily took one step t...
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