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 30, 2021

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...

Yogurt

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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"...

Cruel

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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 crue...
Saturday, May 22, 2021

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...
Tuesday, May 18, 2021

Bonfire

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Seriously considering burning all the dirty laundry in a bonfire in the backyard rathering than doing it all today!  No one would notice a t...

Gerbil

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 (2013) Lily just asked me if she could have a JEWEL-BALL.  ????  Finally realized she was trying to say GERBIL!  I think the Jewel-Ball is ...
Thursday, May 13, 2021

Lipstick

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 (2013) So I delievered some news to Lily Claire last night that was followed by ten minutes of uproarious squealing, jumping, twirling, and...

Concert

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 I signed up for this site called "Bandsintown" that tracks when music groups that you like are going to be in town doing concerts...
Wednesday, May 5, 2021

Baconator

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 (2016) ONLY for her 16 year old son would a true Southern woman ever be caught dead ordering something at Wendys called a TRIPLE BACON-ATOR...
Tuesday, May 4, 2021

Weights

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 (2019) Lily was using some of Skeet’s handheld weights this evening. After about ten minutes of pumping the weights up and down, she inform...
Sunday, April 25, 2021

Naked and Afraid

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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...
Friday, April 23, 2021

Skeleton

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(2012) Life with Dylan:  This morning we were talking about Easter and I said, "Jesus died for us then rose from the grave three days l...
Wednesday, April 21, 2021

Favoritist

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 (2012) I gave Lily a new Berenstain Bears book this morning and she gasped real big and said, "Wow! This is my most favoritest book I ...
Monday, April 19, 2021

Ragamuffin

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 (2011) Whenever Lily Claire has been outside playing and she looks a mess, I tell her she looks like a little "rag-a-muffin."  To...

Weirdo

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(2016) Helping Bran with a paper for his British Lit class tonight that is about how the Victorian ideals of the time were portrayed in Dick...
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