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, August 30, 2022

Bunny

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 (2012) I love the imagination of 4 year olds ... I was laying with Lily Claire last night in her bed while she fell asleep and she said, ...

Cure

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 Tried and true cure for a stressful day ... make your hair a little blonder, paint your nails a little pinker, purchase a jumbo sized choco...
Sunday, August 28, 2022

Baby

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 (2011) Lily tripped and hurt her knee, then very adamantly informed me, "Mama, you have to cuddle Grammie's baby when she's hu...
Saturday, August 27, 2022

Mean

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 (2010) Lily Claire was playing with my cell phone (which was turned off) and I asked her who she was "talking" to.  She happily a...
Wednesday, August 24, 2022

Aristocats

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 (2013) Lily had a VERY exciting moment last night when she realized that our family is "exactly like" the Aristocats ... a mom, d...

Gutenberg

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 (2014) I know that Gutenburg's printing press gets the credit most of the time for the best invention of all time,  but I think the guy...

Roast

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 (2017) Tonight I was miffed when Dylan came home at supper time with a big bag of hamburgers after I'd made a roast. Halfway through di...

Mountain Man

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 (2014) Watching "Mountain Man" on the History Channel with Robert Skeet Taylor ... Completely fascinating,but I think the show sh...

Glug

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 (2014) Should I be concerned that the toilet downstairs was making a loud "glug, glug, glug" noise and when I went to check it ou...

Coke

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 Sorry friends who are not from the South, but I hate the words  "pop" and "soda" ... Down here we say, "Y'all ...
Sunday, August 21, 2022

Grief Counseling

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 Dylan gets a Moes burrito.  Dylan sets it on a plate.  Dylan goes to get a drink.  Buddy eats burrito.  We may need to call grief counselin...
Friday, August 19, 2022

Happiness and Rainbows

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 One of my favorites ... ❤️ A little girl in my class gave me a hug today in the hallway and said, "Oh Mrs. Taylor!  You smell just lik...

Google

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 (2020) Googling stuff we’ve never heard of to help Dyl with statistics homework. Jesus take the wheel. 😫😫😫
Thursday, August 18, 2022

Favorite

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 (2013) Bran was pressing me to say which of the kids was my favorite Of course, he wanted me to say it was HIM ... instead I said they were...

Nicer

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 (2018) Lily and I were heading to the grocery store today and got behind a driver who was going 2 miles an hour and not turning at the sign...
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