“The road trip we recently took to Minneapolis was the worst,” says McMillan. “It would have been a lot easier to hand them a DVD player when they were both screaming about sharing stickers in the back seat of the car.”

The family has also taken a more antiquated approach to communicating with the “outside world,” as they call it. When they first tried to set up their land line, it took weeks for the phone company to actually get in touch with them.

“The phone company would have to come over in person time and time again because they couldn’t reach us on our cell phones or email,” remembers McMillan. “We were a nuisance to everyone, but now they just laugh about it. When we finally plugged in the rotary phone and heard the dial tone it was like when you finally get a signal on your Wi-Fi, we were all so happy.”