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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Thursday, September 29, 2022

Finery

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 (2013) Ladies ... ladies ... PLEASE restrain yourselves ... not everyone can have such beautiful Dollar Store jewels like us.  Maybe one da...
Thursday, September 22, 2022

Pretty

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 (2016)  So the lady doing my nails at the Nail Shop says to me, "You have beautiful skin! Don't need makeup!" While I'm s...
Wednesday, September 21, 2022

Real

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 (2014) Lily got to choose an item from the dollar store for filling her "teeth brushing" chart for two weeks, so she chose this G...
Tuesday, September 20, 2022

Glamorous

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 (2020) A glimpse into the glamorous life at the Taylor home. I was searching all day for a missing sock from the laundry ... And found it w...
Monday, September 19, 2022

Annoying

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 (2012) Skeet, Bran, Dylan, Lily and I were in the car this evening heading to a restaurant.  Here is the conversation between Lily and Dyla...

Bacteria

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 (2016) Lily just informed me that she would NEVER kiss anyone NOT in our family because if you go on a date, it's a complete stranger a...
Sunday, September 18, 2022

Exhausted

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(2016)  I hope my family appreciates the blood, sweat, and tears I put into slaving over a hot stove for their supper tonight!  They wanted ...
Friday, September 16, 2022

Sleeping Beauty

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 (2011) Dylan is laughing his head off because Lily Claire is playing with her princess dolls and keeps calling Sleeping Beauty "Sleepi...

Slime

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 (2018) Lily just proudly showed me some huge blob of slime she made and then I realized she was carrying it around on top of her children...
Thursday, September 15, 2022

Hives

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 (2020) When you’re itching and  think you have hives from all the stress you’ve been under and then you realize it was just a bunch of crum...
Tuesday, September 13, 2022

Remember

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 (2011) Life with a 13 year old son:  On my way home this evening, I called Bran to remind him to get his homework and chores done.  Typical...

Kitty Cat

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 (2011) Saturday, I made the mistake of shopping early for Lily's Halloween costume online and she ended up picking out a sweet kitty ca...

Wrong

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 If watching Hallmark channel and eating Little Debbies on the couch in my pajamas is wrong, then I don’t want to be right.😂😂😂
Monday, September 12, 2022

Grooming

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 I just got an offer from a pet website to send me a 128 page book about grooming my dog at home. What on earth?!!! All I do for Buddy is sl...
Saturday, September 10, 2022

Kite

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(2017) Life with Brandon Taylor ... I called him today to check in on him since his school is closed the next two days. Our conversation ......
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