It's true that having children makes it harder to manage life with horses. Suddenly you can't make it down to the barn every morning. Or you can, because you have to, but you've got the baby slung in a backpack or asleep in the car. Or you're carefully shutting the infant carrier into the tack room so the cats can't bother the baby, and you're mucking stalls as fast as possible, and you don't get around to grooming--the horse or yourself--at all. And you're tired. Exhausted. Exhilarated and frustrated, every day.