If motherhood came with a manual, I think mine must have fallen behind the dryer sometime in the early 90s. I raised three children who are now grown adults in their thirties, and I can tell you with complete honesty that no book or expert ever captured what parenting actually felt like. Parenting is unpredictable, messy, loud, sweet, and sometimes smells like something you hope is not permanent. It is a wild mix of joy and chaos, and every mother figures it out as she goes. Somewhere along...