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, January 31, 2023

Used

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 (2018) Are. You. Kidding. Me??????? I was buying a new plunger for our upstairs bathroom because our other one has disappeared (I don’t eve...
Wednesday, January 25, 2023

Texting

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 (2016) Ummm ... apparently "someone" who is not me (who is also six years old and lives in this house) has been texting from my p...

Opposites

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 (2019) Another installment of "Jen and Skeet Are Polar Opposites" ...  We were watching a survival show tonight called "Dude...
Tuesday, January 24, 2023

Pirate

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 (2012) Dylan and I were watching some cartoon that had a pirate in it and he said, "Mom are there really such things as pirates?"...

God

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 (2016) Lily just informed me that she knows what God looks like. Apparently, He's "big and sunny." 
Friday, January 20, 2023

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 sc...

Snowcone

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  (2018) I have come to the realization that without air conditioning, I would be a mean, lonely hermit with NO friends or maybe even be in ...
Tuesday, January 3, 2023

Boys

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 (2012) Today's episode of LIFE WITH BOYS:  As I am cleaning up the boys' messy bathroom this evening for the hundredth time, I find...
Monday, January 2, 2023

Resolution

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 (2023) While Lily is putting away her Christmas decorations in her room, I say: Why don’t you make a New Year’s resolution to be more organ...
Thursday, December 29, 2022

Eggs

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 (2018) Life with a 15 year old son .... Skeet and I leaping out of bed at 1 AM to the fire alarm screaming and the smell of smoke. Run down...
Saturday, November 12, 2022

Fluffy

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 (2012) The boys have been picking on their poor baby sister tonight ... she decided her new name is "Fluffy" but they keep "...
Tuesday, November 8, 2022

Vote

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 (2016) Voted!! Took 5 minutes! Lily loved watching me click the choices, but made me laugh when the vote for the Commissioner of Soil came ...
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...
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