As I served up dinner, my husband Daniel, then 32, wrangled our children together at the dining table.
While Rylee, then 10, Harper, seven, and Zoey, five, took their seats, Daniel carried our youngest kids, Ember, two, and Xavier, one, and popped them into their high chairs.
It was August 2021, and being a family of seven, life was always busy!
Night time was especially chaotic, trying to feed and bath the kids before bed time.
On top of that, Xavier had just started walking, and loved pulling open drawers and touching everything, so we