Episode 1: Pilot

Quiver. What on earth is a quiver?? Isn't that a verb? Well, if you look a bit deeper in a dictionary, you'll find another definition - "A case for holding or carrying arrows". Sounds like a promising story line, right? I mean, who doesn't love a good basket-of-arrows adventure? Stick with me for a few minutes. Isn't that what pilot episodes are for anyways...a way to see if you might want to keep watching?

Let's pick up the story during the winter season of 2018-19 where my wife and I live with three young kids in a cozy, Kansas home.

One evening, we chatted about how convinced we were that three kids was our limit. Between an ever-changing work schedule (I work rotating shifts), one kid with more energy than his little body can contain, and another kid who is a teenager in a three-year old's body, we decided this was a great place to stop. To stop requires action. "An ounce of prevention...". As it turns out, we got our measurements mixed up and only used half an ounce of prevention.

[Cue the squiggly lines on-screen as we fast-forward in time to October 2019]

The scene is still that cozy home in Kansas, but the "quiver" is fuller...four little arrows now, to be exact.

Some kids are planned, some are not. Our fourth was not. It never sounds right to call a kid an accident, so I won't. But this one was not on the quiver purchase order. Unexpected or not, there is still love in our hearts for another little one. Chaos already existed with three, but four ups the ante. So we say, let the chaos begin! 

Ok, so that last exclamation point is probably fake news. We know having four young kids will not be easy, but we also know there will be moments where we can't help, but just laugh. If you're still interested, come along with us as we embark on this new, exciting, and somewhat terrifying, journey of raising four kids.