“Confessions of a Scary Mommy” by Jill Smokler – The Truth Behind Motherhood

When those of us who aren’t parents are asked to imagine what motherhood is like, most of us think of emotionally-fulfilling moments between a mother and her baby. We may imagine the baby sleeping soundly in her arms, or perhaps laughing cutely and learning to speak his/her first words. However, as Jill Smokler would have you know in Confessions of a Scary Mommy , these stages of motherhood are very few and far in-between… most of the time is actually spent in a peculiar purgatory.