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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Wednesday, July 29, 2020

Relish

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(2018) Lily and I were at Kroger yesterday, and I was buying some egg salad at the deli. I said to Lily that I hoped it didn’t have relish i...

Floor

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(2017) Life with Brandon Taylor 101:  if your mom piles all the clothes, socks, hats, food wrappers, and Gatorade bottles from your floor to...

Super Old

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Bran was telling me tonight about some car show he had been watching on TV and he said, "Cool, Mom, they totally remodeled this REALLY ...

Cleaners

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Embarrassing moment of the day:  I took some clothes from our trip to the dry cleaners and obviously had not done a good job of sorting out ...
Thursday, July 16, 2020

Communication

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(2013) Ahhh, yes ... ever since the dawn of time, men have a hard time communicating with women.  Today, a little boy at the pool kept wan...

Twins

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(2013) Just told Dylan that the panda at the zoo had twins!  "Aren't ALL pandas pretty much twins?"  he asked.  Good point.
Tuesday, June 30, 2020

Faulty

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(2014) The faulty brain waves of sixteen year old boys, as evidenced by my conversation with Bran in the truck tonight ... Me:  We're g...
Monday, June 29, 2020

Beef Jerky

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(2016) Brandon Taylor made me laugh out loud today at Walmart!  He was begging me to buy him some $6 bag of Beef Jerky and I happened to spo...

Grandma

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We were at Chili’s tonight and the young waitress looked at Skeet and said, “Here’s your ribs, sir.” Then she looked at Lily and said, “And ...
Saturday, June 27, 2020

Jesus

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(2014) A little theology with Lily on the ride home today ... her questions ... Does God ever spill anything? If God gets thirsty and has ...
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Tuesday, June 23, 2020

Errands

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Robert Skeet Taylor and I were running errands today and we pulled into PGA Golf store. "Come in with me," he said. "There...
Tuesday, June 16, 2020

102

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(2014) Remember that I mentioned that it is 102 degrees here in Myrtle Beach?  I just discovered that Lily left a half eaten Hershey bar in ...

Fireflies

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Wow! My backyard is twinkling and shimmering with oodles of fireflies! #southernsummernight❤️

Date

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(2014) Bran has a movie date tonight with a very sweet girl from school. A glimpse into a mother/teenage son conversation in the car today ....
Friday, June 12, 2020

Stuck

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(2012) After I took Bran to his double header an hour early in Loganville today, I was going to be "super fun mom" and take Dylan ...
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