Ciara Was ‘So Grateful’ Spending Time with Her Four Kids and Russell Wilson While Touring: ‘Just Incredible’ (Exclusive)

The singer reflects with PEOPLE what life looks like now with four children

Ciara is grateful to have her family join her on tour!

At the Baby2Baby Event Initiative to Combat Maternal Mortality event on Tuesday, Sept. 10, the “Level Up” singer opens up to PEOPLE about her experience being joined by family on the road this summer.

The 38-year-old entertainer explains that she was on the Out of This World — The Missy Elliott Experience Tour with Missy Elliott, Busta Rhymes and Timbaland, and she “had the time of [her] life.” But she notes that she “luckily got to have a little bit of Russ [Wilson] on the road with us.”

Although football preseason was underway, she explains that the Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback briefly joined her and their kids —  Sienna Princess, 7, Win Harrison, 4, and Amora Princess, 9 months, and Future Zahir, 10, who she shares with ex-fiancé, rapper Future. “My kids traveled with me, and I couldn't have done it any other way.”

“They were like little precious babies of a tour having so much fun with Auntie, Missy, and Uncle Busta,” she says. “I mean, it's just the energy was just incredible.”

“So I can say the first summer with four that wasn't too bad,” she says now after welcoming Amora Princess in December 2023.

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She confesses to PEOPLE that when she “got off the road,” she was “thinking about all the things [she] had to check off for school” and that they “had a school shopping moment."

“It was the most amazing time with my babies,” she tells PEOPLE. “I was like, ‘This is what life is about.’ So, the little joys in life. I'm so grateful.”

She details how much gratitude she has for moments where she can “go from the crazy schedule” of a tour and “then to have these humbling moments where it's just [her] being a mom.”

“Every day is nonstop, but it's chaotic, but I wouldn't have it any other way,” she says. “So first summer [with] four is crazy, but we're doing all right. We're making it happen.”

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On Thursday, Aug. 22, the singer shared an Instagram carousel celebrating her family’s time on the road. She posted snaps of the "in-between" time spent with her four children, which "filled up her cup" during her travels.

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