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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Monday, October 24, 2022

Cure

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 (2011) There are some sad boys at my house tonight ... they lost the championship game 12-0.   What to do?  I'm baking them some cookie...

Doorbell

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 (2011) I am losing my mind!  Lily Claire has rung the doorbell about 1000 times now and keeps screaming "Trick or Treat!"  She...

Behave

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 (2011) Lily had to sit in time out for hitting her brother.  I told her not come back in our room until she could be nice and BEHAVE.  When...

Fortune

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 (2014) We went to our favorite Chinese restaurant tonight and when it came time to read the fortune cookies, we had a hilarious faux pas!  ...
Sunday, October 23, 2022

News Flash

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 (2014) News flash for the family ... Lilly Claire informed me that she has changed her name to "Fluffy Belle."  Just FYI!

Halloween

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 (2014) Sooooo much work ahead of me to make Bran into decent husband material one day ... case in point:  Tonight I walk into his room with...
Sunday, October 16, 2022

Old

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 (2018) Today I was sitting outside on a bench at recess and had my ankles crossed.  One of my students was talking to me and then looked do...
Saturday, October 15, 2022

Vacation

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 (2013) I think Lily has been misunderstanding all these weeks when I tell her that Skeet is out of town.  He's gone on business trips a...

Pajamas

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 (2016) Guess Lily was giving me a hint that I've been cleaning the house too long today in my raggy PJs with my hair a wreck when she s...
Wednesday, October 12, 2022

Purgatory

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 (2014) I'm pretty sure there is a level of Dante's purgatory called "Doing book reports with Middle School boys."  Shoot ...

Lullaby

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 (2011)Lily was singing real sweetly to her baby doll tonight ... "Rock A Bye Baby, the tree falls, bye Mr. Baby, when the tree falls....
Monday, October 10, 2022

Grits

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 (2011) I have succeeded in raising my kids as true Southerners!  I told Lily I was going to go order pizza for supper and she said, "N...

Five

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 (2015) I love five year olds.  I showed Lily an online picture of the baby panda cubs from the Atlanta zoo and she stood by the computer pe...

Evaporation

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 (2015) I am amazed at the apparent rapid rate of tater tot evaporation ... Anytime I send Brandon Taylor to Sonic to get some for me, half ...

Homework

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 (2018) Lily complaining while doing a page of math out of her math book tonight ... “What is WRONG with this McGrawHill person?! Does he ju...
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