What it is is Beautiful: Honest Poems for Mothers of Small Children

These nineteen honest poems for mothers of small children will inspire you, or at least help you get through the day when no one’s had a nap and the kids are fighting in the backseat and you can’t even get a Caramel Macchiato because Starbucks ran out of syrup again.

Writing from the laundry-laden trenches, Sarah Dunning Park shares nineteen spot-on poems about mothering small children. Her poetry captures the jumble of emotions inherent in motherhood: delight, guilt, resentment, and gratitude. Perfect for the days when your little treasures give you sticky-fingered hugs one minute and then bite their siblings the next.