Sarah Rogers: Acknowleging Gender Disappointment while raising a PILE of boys!

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Sarah lives in the east of England and is a home educating mother
of 5 boys (aged 4-13, some neuro-spicy - their term) and a cat
and a dog (who require less educating). She has a fairly useless,
but fascinating, degree in Arabic, Art History and Archaeology,
is rated (on average) an “adequate” cook by her children and is
married to Tim, a pastor overseeing 8 churches in chocolate-box
rural English villages. She would love to pursue further study in
her rather niche area, but life is not making that possible right
now.

Even though Sarah and I have 9 boys between the two of us (and 10
children), this episode is not just for Boy Moms! At the heart of
our conversation, we share what we thought motherhood would look
like before we had kids, and then contrast our fantasies with
reality.

This episode is about acknowledging the grief of gender
disappointment AND learning to embrace the children you have.
Sarah is equally wise and hilarious (we laugh so much!).

We both reveal the tender parts of our hearts as we discuss the
difficulties and joys in embracing our unique motherhood
journey--and our crazy, delightful boys!

True confession: I've been trying to keep the episodes to 35
minutes but I got so excited to talk to Sarah that I forgot to
set the timer. Enjoy the 4-5 minutes of out-takes at the
end!! 


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