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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Friday, April 29, 2022

Eyebrows

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 You might teach third graders if ...You can’t find the Scotch tape on your desk and two of your little girls pipe up and say, “Oh we have i...
Sunday, April 24, 2022

Broadway

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 (2014) PROUD PROUD parent moment ... Dylan has a part in the 5th grade school musical.  He is CAMPER ITCH-ALOT and apparently he has to ...

Baby Book

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 (2013) I pulled out Brandon's baby book of pictures to show him tonight and Lily rushed over and said, "Ooooo ... I want to look a...
Saturday, April 23, 2022

Skeleton

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 (2011) Life with Dylan:  This morning we were talking about Easter and I said, "Jesus died for us then rose from the grave three days ...

Sweetest

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 (2015) I have the sweetest husband in the world ... he's worked all day then helped with the Varsity team dinner then coached Dylan...
Thursday, April 21, 2022

Book

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 (2011) 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 ...
Wednesday, April 20, 2022

NeHi & Boiled Peanuts

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Nehi Peach and boiled peanuts.  ♥️♥️ Takes me back to our dating days when Skeet and I stopped along the roadside in the mountains to buy bo...
Tuesday, April 19, 2022

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...

Literature

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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 Dic...
Saturday, April 16, 2022

Best Friend

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 (2010) Lily Claire's teacher told me today that her little two year old classmates were on the floor at circle time and each child in t...

13

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 (2011)Brandon had a GREAT 13th birthday, though I think he fully expected to wake up on that day with a full mustache and a drivers license...

24/7

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(2016)  Story. Of. My. Life. #24/7 #teenagesons 😂
Thursday, April 14, 2022

Cow

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(2015) Bran was recounting to me a recent dinner he had at an Italian restaurant.  He said the waitress came and asked him if he wanted a Ca...

Basketball

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( 2015) I am the WORST basketball mom EVER.  I hate EVERYTHING about it. The uniforms are ugly, the balls thud and echo nonstop, the middle ...

Shoes

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  I noticed that Dylan's tennis shoes were full of holes and completely raggedy, so I threw them away, thinking, "Gosh, this poor k...
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