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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Sunday, December 29, 2019

Scale

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(2012) Lily Claire just stepped on the bathroom scale and asked, "Mama, how much do I cost?"

Slip

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So I am cracking up while watching a whole bunch of DVR'd holiday romance movies I didn't get to before Christmas (though I don'...

Mistake

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"What a nice surprise," I thought when my cell phone rang and the caller ID showed it was Brandon Taylor, who is in Orlando at a b...

Fire Alarm

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Life with a 15 year old son .... Skeet and I leaping out of bed at 1 AM to the fire alarm screaming and the smell of smoke. Run downstairs t...
Sunday, December 22, 2019

Nativity

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(2015) Tonight I was reading several stories to Dylan and Lily, one of which was a book about the nativity.  Dylan was super disappointed t...
Saturday, December 21, 2019

God Bless Us

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As you know, my fourth graders did a book study of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol during December in our reading class. Today one of m...
Tuesday, December 3, 2019

Slurping

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(2016) There is no denying the Lily is my child! I bought her a drink at QT on the way to get groceries and heard all this loud slurping in ...

Sweet Tea

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(2017) A direct quote from my 14-year-old son tonight: "Mom ... all I want for Christmas is a mini-fridge for my room ... full of sweet...
Wednesday, November 27, 2019

We The People

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Something hilarious happened tonight when we were at Mah Jong Chinese restaurant. At the end of the meal my father-in-law made a joke with t...
Sunday, November 24, 2019

Christmas Movies

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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...

Memory

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(2012) Made a priceless memory today when I went over to help Mom decorate the tables for Thanksgiving ... Lily Claire and Grammie were two ...

Sleeve

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(2016) Nothing like having your 17 year old son wake you up on vacation to show you all his plans and ideas for the "sleeve tattoo...
Friday, November 15, 2019

Torture

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(2016) 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...
Wednesday, November 13, 2019

Hot Rod

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(2017) This memory made me laugh out loud ... Brandon Taylor My friends have always told me that God was laughing when he sent me two rowdy...

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...
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