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, May 31, 2020

Crayons

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(2013) Lily is definitely my child ... she is sitting beside me playing with her crayons but she has them all lined up in a row and has name...

Cheap

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I have been crowned “mother of the year” yet again! Today I was at the Dollar Store loading up my cart with snacks for my kids to munch on a...
Saturday, May 30, 2020

Summertime

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(2013) Summertime is in full swing at the Taylor house ... Bran has three friends over after baseball practice to "hang out" and e...

ESPN

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(2013) I am cracking up at Brandon because he is OUTRAGED that ESPN is showing some international spelling bee instead of baseball.  A cruel...
Thursday, May 28, 2020

Southern

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(2013) I am definitely raising a Southern girl!  I just asked Lily Claire what she wanted for a snack and she answered, "Yo-Grits"...

Bloated

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(2013) Dylan and Lily are going to watch a Lego Batman movie and they want me to get out the air mattress for them to lay on while they watc...

Sweating

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(2013) Had a lunch date with the kids after the puppet show this morning!  They wanted to go to McDonalds so they could also play on the pla...
Monday, May 25, 2020

Isaac

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I am cracking myself up at how happy I am being in my PJs watching Love Boat reruns after a fun day at the pool with my kids!  Doesn't t...

Breach

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One of my favorites... Ok, really?!  We went out for lunch today and a lady stopped to admire some jewelry I was wearing.  As I am about to...

Float

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This dude at the pool keeps yelling at his middle school daughter to be careful on her pool float so she doesn’t knock into other people, bu...
Sunday, May 24, 2020

Electricity

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(2013) Life with two brothers means that everything gets eaten or used up before Lily Claire can get to it, most of the time!  Whenever we b...

Princess

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(2010) When Lily got out of the bath and put on her pink Disney princess nighgrown this evening, she informed me, "I a princess too, Ma...

Lucky

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Robert Skeet Taylor, you are quite possibly the luckiest man on earth. All I could find tonight to put on my poison ivy was diaper rash crea...
Friday, May 22, 2020

Hunk

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(2013) Lily was describing Robert Skeet Taylor at lunch: "a person with black white gray hair, wrinkly forehead, hairy arms, and a scra...
Thursday, May 21, 2020

Golf

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Conversations I had with Skeet on the golf course today… He’s such a lucky man to have me by his side!! 😂😂😂 Wonder if he’ll invite me aga...
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