Not too long ago, I followed some incredibly resourceful, timesaving ways of managing our home. The system was supremely efficient.

My grocery list was organized by aisle, so I didn’t redundantly traverse the same path twice. My laundry was tackled like one of those washing-machine commercials where the clothes fold themselves into neat towers. My family’s meals were homecooked with the groceries that I’d so competently purchased. And all those things were checked off my to-do between shuttling our kids to and from school, multiple playdates, Taekwondo and ballet lessons, and our family’s church commitments.

But my predictably organized world came to an abrupt halt when we moved to India, after ten years of living in a suburb of Portland.

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