We met with some new friends this past weekend and were talking about our families. “Wait, four boys? You have FOUR boys?” one asked.

Yes.

And look, still surviving it all.

As it is the week of Mother’s Day, I thought I would attempt to share with you a brief look at what it has been like raising four boys.

It was harder to sum it up than I expected it to be. There is so much to say, how do I fit it all in one column?

Here is my secret to raising boys: I didn’t know what I was doing, I missed the class on how to raise them, so I just kept learning as I went along.

When someone asks me how on earth I survived raising four boys, I can tell you that I honestly don’t know. I was too tired to take notes (although, I did blog a lot about our adventures when they were little). I was legit learning as I went. I failed a lot. It helped greatly that God gave me my amazing mom to help me when I became a new mom myself (thank you!). It also helped that God gave me this absolute adoration for being these boys’ mom.

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