Luca got a job at a regional distribution company as a scheduler and was good at it and moved up.

Every promotion came with more hours, and every set of hours came with a conversation about what we were building, and every one of those conversations ended with me doing more of something.

I left my full-time job when Nina was two, because the daycare cost more than I brought home after taxes, which is a sentence millions of women can recite from memory.

We ran the numbers on a legal pad at that same kitchen table.