Jump off the bed. Roll across the room. Crawl under the table. Run upstairs. Hide under the
armchair for 30 seconds. Stick your head in the fridge and smell the milk. Skip around the dining
room table three times. Then, the long, hard, do-or-die dash to the finish: Lie down on your
bed for 20 minutes. Without moving one muscle.
Her friends' kids have schedules to rival a CEO's. But her own two boys spend their weekends in a pajama-clad idyll of board games, sick jokes, impromptu backrubs, and pleasure in the moment.