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, October 29, 2019

Bitter

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(2014) REALLY?!  I arrange a RARE free Saturday night with all the kids taken care of so I can surprise Robert Taylor  with a date ... I can...

Discount Tires

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(2016) Today I had to take my car to Discount Tires to get a tire replaced that had a nail in it.  (Me + Discount Tires is already the begin...
Tuesday, October 22, 2019

Dress

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(2010) I have a sweet hubby ... You know I've been searching for a formal dress this week and I was bemoaning the fact that I'd trie...
Thursday, October 17, 2019

Fathers

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(2016)  A father's love ... Bran called home around 8 PM and said,"Mom, I'm as sick as I can ever remember. My head and chest a...
Tuesday, October 15, 2019

Vacations

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(2013) I think Lily has been misunderstanding all these weeks when I tell her that Skeet is out of town.  He's gone on business trips a ...

Lovely

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(2016) Guess Lily was giving me a hint that I've been cleaning the house too long today in my raggy PJs with my hair a wreck when she sa...
Saturday, October 12, 2019

Terrorized

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(2010) Lily was singing real sweetly to her baby doll tonight ... "Rock A Bye Baby, the tree falls, bye Mr. Baby, when the tree falls....

Purgatory

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(2014) I'm pretty sure there is a level of Dante's purgatory called "Doing book reports with Middle School boys."  Shoot m...
Friday, October 11, 2019

Chick Fil A

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(2012) The boys are all at the BHS football game and Lily wanted me to take her to Chick Fil A.  When we got there she wanted to stay and pl...
Thursday, October 10, 2019

Rest in Peace

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I was doing some yard work today and found this buried in the yard. It was a grave marker Lily made several years ago when a little chipmunk...

Grits

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(2011) I have succeeded in raising my kids as true Southerners!  I told Lily I was going to go order pizza for supper and she said, "No...

Wild man

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(2012) Poor Papaw dropped both boys off at our house today afterschool and got roped into watching "The Call of the Wildman" with ...

Precious

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(2013) I love five year olds.  I showed Lily an online picture of the baby panda cubs from the Atlanta zoo and she stood by the computer pet...

Evaporation

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(2014) I am amazed at the apparent rapid rate of tater tot evaporation ... Anytime I send Brandon Taylor to Sonic to get some for me, half t...

Math

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(2017) Lily complaining while doing a page of math out of her math book tonight ... “What is WRONG with this McGrawHill person?! Does he ju...
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