Everything you’ve ever wanted to know about homecoming mums, one blog post at a time
Mum Stories
inspired by the book, Mumentous: Original Photos and Mostly-True Stories About Football, Glue Guns, Moms, and a Supersized High School Tradition That was Born Deep in the Heart of Texas by Amy J. Schultz
Team Mum Watch 2024: Bigger-than-life Texas homecoming mums are everywhere
Can you help me find all the Team Mums that are being built in 2024? Here are the Team Mums you've helped me find so far, plus what makes them special.
The Really Big Picture: Team Mums
This is backstory of Team Mums, aka REALLY big mums. These mums aren’t built to be worn. They’re about shared experiences.
How Big are Texas High School Homecoming Mums?
Mums are big. Senior mums are bigger. But the majority of homecoming mums in Texas today are probably not as large as you think.
The World’s Biggest Homecoming Mum
And the new Guinness World Record for the largest homecoming mum goes to…
What the made-up word “MUMENTOUS” means and other questions about writing a book
The most meaningful part of Mumentous was the moment I first wrote my own mom into the story. It was not something I expected or planned to do. She passed away a few years before I began working on Mumentous, so it was really nice to spend time with her again.
Read a chapter from the book, MUMENTOUS
This century-long evolution of what it means to “go” to homecoming (mums included) has been a long, slow burn stoked by Texas teenagers being teenagers living in the present.
Is MUMENTOUS about more than homecoming mums?
Women are society’s tradition-keepers, so whether we’re talking about mums or Christmas trees or packing up the kids to go to Grandma’s house every year, chances are there’s a matriarch making it all happen.
Why I wrote a book about homecoming mums
Yeah, so why did I write a book about the homecoming mum tradition in Texas?