Stacy and hubby Matt (Check him out on International Teacher Podcast!! ) with their 4 boys aged 6,9,9 and 11 have been in Saudi Arabia for 12 yrs. They are both school teachers and with only one kid at the time, they were faced with a decision to leave their expat life in Venezuela and either go to Hong Kong, or Saudi Arabia. They chose the Middle East for many reasons that fit into their growing family perfectly.

Enjoy our conversation while we discuss the benefits of life on camp including the benefits vs disadvantages of having younger and elementary school-aged kids vs middle/ high school-aged kids here in Saudi, the MAJOR challenges that come with having kids so far away in boarding school but also the challenges of depriving them of such an opportunity and keeping them here or returning stateside for public schools, having children with learning challenges and possible diagnosis that may require medication, how having a nanny as 2 full-time working parents has evolved as their children have grown older, her experience of giving birth to twins and her 2 c sections her in Saudi, her panic attack when she first moved here to Saudi while in IKEA, and last but not least her story of how they were STUCK in the maldives during COVID!!!

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