Volume One · Cambodia
Real systems for raising multiple kids
Written by a dad still figuring it out. Four boys, one kitchen, and every system that survived contact with them.
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A Hundred Percent of Our Income Is Somebody Else’s Decision
Read the chapter →: A Hundred Percent of Our Income Is Somebody Else’s DecisionThat’s not a complaint. It’s a structural description, and it’s the single most important fact about how my family makes decisions. Living on missionary support means exactly that: all of it, with no second…
The Chronicle
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We Do Family Devotions Every Night. Not Every Night.
Both halves of that are true and I’ve stopped trying to reconcile them. Family devotions happen at our house before bed. That’s…
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His Ear Took Half a Day. Mine Took Three Months.
We flew to Korea together, Number 3 and I, both of us there for the same reason. He has chronic ear trouble…
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Korean Happened at Our Kitchen Table. English Had a Whole School.
Number 1 can read a Korean book. So can Number 2. Number 3 is nearly there — slow, sounding things out, but…
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I Had Ten Years to Learn Russian. I Never Had To.
I repeated kindergarten. Not because of anything anyone would put in a file — I was six, we had just landed in…
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I Paid $21,500 for a 2012 Minivan. It Was Running on Half a Car.
The needle would start climbing whenever we stopped moving. Sitting at a light in Battambang, four boys in the back, air conditioning…
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He Got Out of Bed to Check If Saturday Was Still On
Our boys go to bed at eight. I work in the room across the hall, so I hear everything that happens after…