It’s lunchtime on a recent spring break afternoon and Stephanie Packer is in her kitchen, preparing lunch with her four children.
"Do you want to help?" she asks the eager crowd of siblings gathered tightly around her at the stovetop.
"Yeah!" yells 5-year-0ld Savannah.
"I do!" says Jacob, 8.
Calmly managing four kids as each vies for the chance to help make chicken salad sandwiches can be trying. But for Packer, these are the moments she cherishes.