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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Sunday, February 26, 2023

Perks

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 (2014) Bran thinks he has hit the BIG TIME being on his highschool baseball team.  Why?  Because he gets FREE sweet tea AND lemonade at pra...

Book

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 (2014) Bran wasn't sure if I could help him with his Language Arts homework last night because it was about some obscure, little known ...

Birthday

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 (2013) Lily just told me, "Mom, you can come to my birthday party because you're my best friend."  Sniff. Sniff.  Love that l...

Marker

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 (2012) I walked into the kitchen this evening to find that Lily had drawn a big flower right on the refridgerator with a purple marker!!!! ...
Thursday, February 23, 2023

Mother of the Year

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 (2012) I have to share my "Mother of the Year" story from this week. I have been crowned once again. 🙂  I noticed that Dylan...
Thursday, February 9, 2023

Rooster

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 (2023) You know you live in Georgia when … the man in front of you at the post office is mailing a rooster in a box full of holes that says...

Dreams

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 (2014) This morning Lily woke up and told me she had the "goodest" dream EVER!  She dreamed that she and a bunny and a kitten wer...

Twin

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 (2017) Conversation at our house this evening ... Lily:  Guess what?  We are learning about Jackie Robinson in Social Studies.  He's a ...
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 ...
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