"We weren't quitting; we were pausing, we explained. The baby would be our primary focus for a while. Rather than spending evenings away, our family life would be centered at or around our home."
"They thrived outside a calendar of scheduled games and practices. We played sports at times that were convenient for our family. Rather than joining a basketball league, I shot hoops with the boys in our driveway and at our local gym."
"With the extra time they had after school, they practiced their ball handling for hours in the backyard, and I watched from a window as I cooked dinner or nursed the baby."
"You can't list 'whittling in the backyard' or 'climbing the monkey bars' on a college application or CV - but surely they had the rest of their lives to join that exhausting rat race."
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