"Marco Leon" mleon(at)optonline.net wrote in message ...
Hi all. I've noticed a considerable decrease in flight hours since my son
was born a little over a year ago. My wife is also 5 months pregnant with
another so flying time may suffer further decline. I'm wondering...what are
some of your experiences during the life-changing event of a new family and
flying? Did you start flying more often after the kids hit a certain age?

Yeah. It got easier after our daughter was sleeping pretty solidly
through the night. About a year, even better after two years.
Frankly it was about 3 years before I really started to feel
normal again as far as energy level and such and we got back to
being able to complete projects around the house and so forth.

And yes, Jay, we took her along, but frankly 1) toting along
a child in diapers adds considerably to the logistics, even if
"mommy is the kitchen" and bottles/formula aren't a concern
2) working full time and parenting full time is *tiring* and
there were plenty of times when I had time to fly, but was just
too *tired* 3) IMO when a child is small (say less than 2 or
so) if one expects them to *like* flying, someone had better
make it their primary job to tend to the child in the plane.

Now the problem is less "tired", and more that it seems every
fall/winter is spent fighting non-stop family wide colds. I'm
hoping this, too, shall pass some day.

What did you do to find more time?

I don't have a good answer to this. It was hard. Still is.
Frankly with both of us working full time, I would have been
kinda ticked if my husband was taking off to fly early mornings
or late nights more than 1-2 a week or so. It seemed as though
there was plenty to do to prepare for the next day with both of
us "on it" every bit we could spare.

I'm not sure how it would have been different if I were a SAHM.
Easier to spare the husband in the morning and harder in the
evening, I'm guessing.

Good luck!
Sydney