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When you've got five kids -- each with their own schoolwork, clubs and sports -- running a household is a challenge on a good day. When you're trying to coordinate that many schedules on a veritable patchwork quilt of hand-scrawled pages and sticky notes, it's practically a miracle.

Such is life for the hectic-but-happy Porter family of Fort Wayne, Indiana -- Melinda and Kent, and their children Jonny (16), Tommy (12), twins Cece and Billy (10), and Anna (8).

The Porters truly love hanging out with each other -- playing video games and watching movies together are the primary focus of their together time. The tough part is finding free time when all seven can be together -- and their current technology (and lack thereof) is not very conducive to creating free time.

For all five schoolkids, there's just the one tired, old computer, connected to an overworked printer that always seems to be running out of ink. With the desktop system occupied almost every waking minute, Kent, a frazzled traveling salesman, sometimes even resorts to sitting in his car with his work laptop to get things done. And as if Dad weren't busy enough already, he also runs a licensed hair salon out of his basement!

Between all the gaming, haircuts, and various sports and social clubs, the Porter home has grown into a warm and inviting social hub for the whole neighborhood. All it needs is a little boost from the Techno-Gurus to take it to the next level, and in turn, give the family more free time to actually enjoy it.

So if YOU were a Guru, what would you do?

Posted by Jim 2.0 | tagged: Porter, before, casting, video