Jasmine Garst

He went to his car to lay low, and he sent M a message on Facebook.

They're here.

M's 7-year-old, L, explains.

And so she didn't eat at all that day.

My bones hurt from the anxiety.

We locked ourselves in.

I was scared.

And that event sent the family into a sort of lockdown for the entire summer, hence the summer of nothing.

The family was stuck indoors in their small trailer home for three whole summer months with four children.

ages 1 to 12.

As Em and I talk, her youngest boy has climbed on top of the laundry machine and is throwing out about 100, give or take, plastic Easter eggs onto the floor.

The baby she's rocking is, unbeknownst to her, pointing a very large bottle of glue at me, like directly at my face.

And then her 7-year-old walks in

holding an upside down cat.

Oh my God, the cat.

She held a strand of her hair and in true M style, made a joke.

I didn't have these white hairs last time we met, did I?

It's not all jokes.

The eldest kid, Kay, says this summer was actually incredibly boring.

Nothing happened.