Being a parent is dirty and scary and beautiful and hard and miraculous and exhausting and thankless and joyful and frus — Jill Smokler, Confessions of a Scary Mommy: An Honest and Irreverent Look at Motherhood: The Good, The Bad, and the Scary
Being a parent is dirty and scary and beautiful and hard and miraculous and exhausting and thankless and joyful and frus — Jill Smokler, Confessions of a Scary Mommy: An Honest and Irreverent Look at Motherhood: The Good, The Bad, and the Scary
Being a parent is dirty and scary and beautiful and hard and miraculous and exhausting and thankless and joyful and frus — Jill Smokler, Confessions of a Scary Mommy: An Honest and Irreverent Look at Motherhood: The Good, The Bad, and the Scary
Being a parent is dirty and scary and beautiful and hard and miraculous and exhausting and thankless and joyful and frus — Jill Smokler, Confessions of a Scary Mommy: An Honest and Irreverent Look at Motherhood: The Good, The Bad, and the Scary
Being a parent is dirty and scary and beautiful and hard and miraculous and exhausting and thankless and joyful and frus — Jill Smokler, Confessions of a Scary Mommy: An Honest and Irreverent Look at Motherhood: The Good, The Bad, and the Scary
Being a parent is dirty and scary and beautiful and hard and miraculous and exhausting and thankless and joyful and frus — Jill Smokler, Confessions of a Scary Mommy: An Honest and Irreverent Look at Motherhood: The Good, The Bad, and the Scary
Being a parent is dirty and scary and beautiful and hard and miraculous and exhausting and thankless and joyful and frus — Jill Smokler, Confessions of a Scary Mommy: An Honest and Irreverent Look at Motherhood: The Good, The Bad, and the Scary
Being a parent is dirty and scary and beautiful and hard and miraculous and exhausting and thankless and joyful and frus — Jill Smokler, Confessions of a Scary Mommy: An Honest and Irreverent Look at Motherhood: The Good, The Bad, and the Scary
Being a parent is dirty and scary and beautiful and hard and miraculous and exhausting and thankless and joyful and frus — Jill Smokler, Confessions of a Scary Mommy: An Honest and Irreverent Look at Motherhood: The Good, The Bad, and the Scary
Being a parent is dirty and scary and beautiful and hard and miraculous and exhausting and thankless and joyful and frus — Jill Smokler, Confessions of a Scary Mommy: An Honest and Irreverent Look at Motherhood: The Good, The Bad, and the Scary
Being a parent is dirty and scary and beautiful and hard and miraculous and exhausting and thankless and joyful and frus — Jill Smokler, Confessions of a Scary Mommy: An Honest and Irreverent Look at Motherhood: The Good, The Bad, and the Scary
Being a parent is dirty and scary and beautiful and hard and miraculous and exhausting and thankless and joyful and frus — Jill Smokler, Confessions of a Scary Mommy: An Honest and Irreverent Look at Motherhood: The Good, The Bad, and the Scary
Being a parent is dirty and scary and beautiful and hard and miraculous and exhausting and thankless and joyful and frus — Jill Smokler, Confessions of a Scary Mommy: An Honest and Irreverent Look at Motherhood: The Good, The Bad, and the Scary
Being a parent is dirty and scary and beautiful and hard and miraculous and exhausting and thankless and joyful and frus — Jill Smokler, Confessions of a Scary Mommy: An Honest and Irreverent Look at Motherhood: The Good, The Bad, and the Scary
Being a parent is dirty and scary and beautiful and hard and miraculous and exhausting and thankless and joyful and frus — Jill Smokler, Confessions of a Scary Mommy: An Honest and Irreverent Look at Motherhood: The Good, The Bad, and the Scary
Being a parent is dirty and scary and beautiful and hard and miraculous and exhausting and thankless and joyful and frus — Jill Smokler, Confessions of a Scary Mommy: An Honest and Irreverent Look at Motherhood: The Good, The Bad, and the Scary
Being a parent is dirty and scary and beautiful and hard and miraculous and exhausting and thankless and joyful and frus — Jill Smokler, Confessions of a Scary Mommy: An Honest and Irreverent Look at Motherhood: The Good, The Bad, and the Scary
Being a parent is dirty and scary and beautiful and hard and miraculous and exhausting and thankless and joyful and frus — Jill Smokler, Confessions of a Scary Mommy: An Honest and Irreverent Look at Motherhood: The Good, The Bad, and the Scary
Being a parent is dirty and scary and beautiful and hard and miraculous and exhausting and thankless and joyful and frus — Jill Smokler, Confessions of a Scary Mommy: An Honest and Irreverent Look at Motherhood: The Good, The Bad, and the Scary
Being a parent is dirty and scary and beautiful and hard and miraculous and exhausting and thankless and joyful and frus — Jill Smokler, Confessions of a Scary Mommy: An Honest and Irreverent Look at Motherhood: The Good, The Bad, and the Scary
Being a parent is dirty and scary and beautiful and hard and miraculous and exhausting and thankless and joyful and frus — Jill Smokler, Confessions of a Scary Mommy: An Honest and Irreverent Look at Motherhood: The Good, The Bad, and the Scary
Being a parent is dirty and scary and beautiful and hard and miraculous and exhausting and thankless and joyful and frus — Jill Smokler, Confessions of a Scary Mommy: An Honest and Irreverent Look at Motherhood: The Good, The Bad, and the Scary
Being a parent is dirty and scary and beautiful and hard and miraculous and exhausting and thankless and joyful and frus — Jill Smokler, Confessions of a Scary Mommy: An Honest and Irreverent Look at Motherhood: The Good, The Bad, and the Scary
Being a parent is dirty and scary and beautiful and hard and miraculous and exhausting and thankless and joyful and frus — Jill Smokler, Confessions of a Scary Mommy: An Honest and Irreverent Look at Motherhood: The Good, The Bad, and the Scary
Being a parent is dirty and scary and beautiful and hard and miraculous and exhausting and thankless and joyful and frus — Jill Smokler, Confessions of a Scary Mommy: An Honest and Irreverent Look at Motherhood: The Good, The Bad, and the Scary
Being a parent is dirty and scary and beautiful and hard and miraculous and exhausting and thankless and joyful and frus — Jill Smokler, Confessions of a Scary Mommy: An Honest and Irreverent Look at Motherhood: The Good, The Bad, and the Scary
Being a parent is dirty and scary and beautiful and hard and miraculous and exhausting and thankless and joyful and frus — Jill Smokler, Confessions of a Scary Mommy: An Honest and Irreverent Look at Motherhood: The Good, The Bad, and the Scary
Being a parent is dirty and scary and beautiful and hard and miraculous and exhausting and thankless and joyful and frus — Jill Smokler, Confessions of a Scary Mommy: An Honest and Irreverent Look at Motherhood: The Good, The Bad, and the Scary
Being a parent is dirty and scary and beautiful and hard and miraculous and exhausting and thankless and joyful and frus — Jill Smokler, Confessions of a Scary Mommy: An Honest and Irreverent Look at Motherhood: The Good, The Bad, and the Scary
Being a parent is dirty and scary and beautiful and hard and miraculous and exhausting and thankless and joyful and frus — Jill Smokler, Confessions of a Scary Mommy: An Honest and Irreverent Look at Motherhood: The Good, The Bad, and the Scary
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Being a parent is dirty and scary and beautiful and hard and miraculous and exhausting and thankless and joyful and frustrating all at once. It’s everything. (Confessions of a Scary Mommy, Gallery Books 2012).

— Jill Smokler, Confessions of a Scary Mommy: An Honest and Irreverent Look at Motherhood: The Good, The Bad, and the Scary
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