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Sara Fraser is a South Carolina-based writer, and a first-hand survivor of the early years of motherhood. Her intimate knowledge of Southern mommyhood and all its trappings — the initial-embroidered onesies, extravagant toddler birthday parties, mini-van snobbery and new sport of competitive play dates — is first-hand and unmatched.
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Misadventures of a Modern Mommy

English - Parenting, Writing, Buddhism
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Misadventures of a Modern Mommy · 1h ago

Live like this

I’ve lived out my melancholy youth. I don’t give a fuck anymore what’s behind me, or what’s ahead of me. I’m healthy. Incurably healthy. No sorrows, no regrets. No past, no future. The present is enough for me. Day by … Continue reading →
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Misadventures of a Modern Mommy · 2d ago

Wasp love

‘Round about late March, a little paper wasp found her way to the wooden stairs of our apartment. She began building herself a home. For days, Cole was terrified of the wasp. But we walked around her, up the left … Continue reading →
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Misadventures of a Modern Mommy · 1W ago

A thousand conversations

“I wish you could have been there for the sun & the rain & the long, hard hills. For the sound of a thousand conversations scattered along the road. For the people laughing & crying & remembering at the end. … Continue reading →
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Misadventures of a Modern Mommy · 2W ago

The bullshit of innocence

I think about childhood a lot. I think about childhood a lot because becoming a parent meant, in many ways, that I was granted a front-row, second-person version of childhood. I get to do it again, this time without the … Continue reading →
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Misadventures of a Modern Mommy · 3W ago

Let’s just stop doing that

“When she was young and had her first child, she didn’t believe in striking children, although spanking kids with a switch pulled from a tree was standard punishment at the time. But one day when her son was four or … Continue reading →
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Misadventures of a Modern Mommy · 3W ago

Whoa, Nelly (I made my own laundry detergent)

Last summer, Matthew’s mother taught me how to can vegetables. In my one-step-closer-to-self-sufficiency effort —and also because with every day I grow older I grow more frugal — I decided to learn how to make my own laundry soap. And, … Continue reading →
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Misadventures of a Modern Mommy · 4W ago

Closing

Unless something catastrophic (and really, I’m remaining diligent about not countin’ my wee chicks before they hatch) happens in underwriting, I close on my new house on June 1. It’s stressful. I wonder about all the “fun” that I think … Continue reading →
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Misadventures of a Modern Mommy · 1M ago

May 1 General Strike — with kids

I’m taking May 1 off. For this: Granted, I’m using my paid time off to stand in solidarity with Occupy. I’m not the type to call-in sick when I’m not actually sick (it’s not really that I find it morally … Continue reading →
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Misadventures of a Modern Mommy · 1M ago

Radical Acceptance

“Let me think about the people who I care about the most… and how when they fail, or disappoint me, I still love them, I still give them chances, and I still see the best in them. Let me extend … Continue reading →
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Misadventures of a Modern Mommy · 1M ago

Face the Promised Land

A friend of mine from boarding school wrote this great blog post (you can read it here). She talks of the Easter service she went to, during which folks from the congregation walked to the front of the church with … Continue reading →
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