I wasn't making enough resources to help supplement my husband's income. He is a pressman at a printing company. I stayed with it because of my love for the sport and my love for working with kids. This sport has been an internal passion of mine since childhood. I was there before I had kids, there with my kids in the program, and I'll be there after my kids are gone.
Some people find that strange.
I am one of those rare coaches in Canada who has a measure of job security. Because Rod is a Level 4 referee, we were going to many of the competitions as a family. I wasn't travelling without him, and we took the kids with us. He was refereeing, I was coaching, so we had to get other people to look after our kids. Sometimes my dad would travel with us or my step-mom or my sister would look after them, or people at the rink, or other relatives.