I'm the wife of 1, the mom of 4. I sort of homeschool. I thought I had a pretty decent handle on life until I had kids. Now I generally wing it. But there's freedom in that.
I thought parenting was for the sake of the kids, but now I know it's actually God's way of refining ME. He's given us 4, so clearly I need a lot of refining.
Fifteen years ago, here was my plan: get married, have 2 kids (a boy and a girl...in that order), stay home until they start school, then, find a high-powered, high-paying job, doing what I really want to do and make a spectacular difference in the world. But then I realized helping to start the lives of 4 human beings is pretty spectacular too.
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