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, March 30, 2022

Price tags

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 (2015) Murphy's Law: Found 24 heavy tea glasses at the Dollar Store today to use on Easter Sunday. Yay! Just finished scraping and scru...

Pan

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 (2016) Lily just saw this picture of the day she was born and asked, "Why was I in a pan?"  Hahahaa!

Grandparents

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 (2015) Today we were going over a reading assignment in class and I skipped one of the questions by accident. One of my students encouragin...

Lion

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 (2020) I had to go by the grocery store tonight and Lily went with me. I was complaining a little to her that I was tired of not being able...
Tuesday, March 29, 2022

Tires

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 (2013) Got home from the store to see my husband on his hands and knees in our new Indian neighbors' driveway surrounded by their four ...

PGA

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(2015)  After 24 years of living with Skeet Taylor, I've been "conditioned" to turn on PGA golf in order to take a Sunday afte...
Sunday, March 27, 2022

Blind

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 (2015) Guess I was cheering too loudly for Dyl at his ballgame because Lily turned to me and said, “Sshhhh, Mom! You’re making my ears go b...
Saturday, March 26, 2022

Crazy

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 True story. Some twenty-something girl behind me on the way home was riding all over my tail and honking at me wanting me to go faster. Whe...
Friday, March 25, 2022

The South

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  You know you're in the south when you pass a restaurant called Big D's BBQ Trough situated amongst a trailer park, a baptist churc...

Teenagers

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  During the summer months, a lot of teenagers are working at the stores and fast food restaurants (my son included), which can sometimes le...

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.

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 in...

Snowcones

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   I have come to the realization that without air conditioning, I would be a mean, lonely hermit with NO friends or maybe even be in JAIL. ...
Thursday, March 24, 2022

Retro

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 (2011) I guess I've been watching the Retro TV channel too much because tonight Lily Claire said she wanted to watch "Magnum PI....

Rubbish

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 (2015) So today Lily came running up to me and said, "Mom, you're RUBBISH!" WHAT?! "Lily!  That wasn't nice!" I...
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