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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Tuesday, May 24, 2022

Brothers

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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 ...

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 cre...
Sunday, May 22, 2022

Checks

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 Life with Jen and Skeet … We just ordered checks with our new address on them.  My design has pictures of neon colored popsicles with googl...

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...
Saturday, May 21, 2022

Golf

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 (2020) 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 inv...
Friday, May 20, 2022

Praise

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 (2014) One of my sweet fourth grade boys said to me today, "Mrs. Taylor, the only better woman in my life other than you is my mother....
Thursday, May 19, 2022

OCD

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 (2018) Anyone who knows me well knows I have a BAD OCD problem with vacuuming all the time! I have three Roomba vacuums that run all the ti...
Wednesday, May 18, 2022

Bonfire

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 (2013) Seriously considering burning all the dirty laundry in a bonfire in the backyard rather than doing it all today!  No one would notic...

Gerbil

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 (2011) 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 ...
Tuesday, May 17, 2022

Grandma

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 (2011) One of my students accidentally called me "Grandma" today  ... I told them their A in my class was now a C minus!!!!  

Moved

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 Saw something soooo funny today ....  a church had apparently moved to a new location and all you could see from the road was their former ...

Gift Card

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 I am cracking up that almost everytime I "like" someone's post on FB now, it asks me if I want to give them a gift card!  ...

Grumpy

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 (2012) Lily Claire had to dress up as a fairy tale character for preschool today, which sounded super fun last night, but this morning, Lil...
Friday, May 13, 2022

Raisin Bran

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 (2011) How many nights in a row is it possible to have Raisin Bran for supper?  I'll be sure and let you know.  Such is my life during ...

Lipstick

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