i feel like time is just like flown by olympic beach volleyball gold medalist april ross and alix klineman celebrating their first mother's day. for me, being a mom is just changed everything. ross is in there and it's good. whereas before, like volleyball was so central to my life and like everything revolved around that. now being a mom, it's like, that's number one. but then it also makes me like prioritize other things too. and i feel like my life is just so much more balanced than it used to be. balanced but hectic, especially now. the reigning gold medalist from tokyo are back to competing. training began only a few months ago. like trying to come back now is like a mad rush. it's really hard to be a mom and a play, and i was kind of like, okay, i think i might be done. and then april texted me and was like, do you want to play? and i was like, okay, well, if i'm going to play with anybody at this point, i had to take her to breakfast and like, sell her on it a little bit, a little breakfast and a lot of support from each other. we say, like before, we had to go to practice and now w