Code Blue -Am I ever going to launch a rocket ever again?????

Hello group,
HELP- BAR on life support
I have a daughter in College. Who plays field hockey.
I have a daughter in high school. Who plays field hockey, softball, choir, etc
A son in middle school. 3 baseball teams
I have a million house projects that need to be done.

I went from building and launching rockets to....
not building and just launching rockets to.....
thinking about launching rockets to ......
checking in on TRF to.....
Barely checking in on TRF.

How do I make time.
What are your methods for making rocket time?

Thanks- Feeling better all ready.

I need a Model rocket transfusion- Help

I can't help you with this much, there's nothing in my way but me About all you can do is maybe plan to attend a launch, come hell or high water. When your pressed like you are that becomes even more important. ME time is as important to your sanity as making sure THEIR time is not ignored. They should understand.

Take time off for you, consider it a small vacation and we all know how much things are better after a vacation

I retired! Still short of time (much longer honey-do list).

Mike

How big are those athletic fields where your kids play ball and do they have halftime breaks? :cyclops:

tmacklin said:

How big are those athletic fields where your kids play ball and do they have halftime breaks? :cyclops:

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Before or after the game might be a better idea, (I've done this) the coaches might get a bit peeved if you steal all the kids away with a halftime show! This has come to be my situation too, with two kids involved in athletics that span the entire year.

It might seem a bit counterintuitive, but I find that reserving time for working on my hobbies (within reason) makes me much more productive when I'm doing everything else. For me anyway "all work and no play make Jack a dull boy" is certainly true.

One day at a time dude. I'm dealing with house, car, kid activities, work, carpooling because the car is kinda gaffy (electrical/cooling issues).

Take a few hours for yourself. 2 or 3 hours won't kill anybody, and it's good for your sanity.

Just like anything else you budget time for it. 4 to 6 hours once a month to get out and launch a few rockets is not to much to ask of yourself/for yourself. That said I know how family time can bump your rocket schedule off of the calendar sometimes. I try very hard to get out every month to launch but in reality I am launching about 9 months out of the year. If you budget the time it is easier to convince yourself to get out and just do it.

Four kids, three of them less than 2 years old. Scheduling time to eat and sleep is a chore, let alone fly or build.

This past summer I did manage to get a bunch of work in though. It helps to have a workshop setup so you can do things in short 15/20 minutes bursts and just let it sit in the meantime. Getting out to launches took a bunch of work and cooperation from my wife, who's amazing.

DizWolf said:

Four kids, three of them less than 2 years old. Scheduling time to eat and sleep is a chore, let alone fly or build.

This past summer I did manage to get a bunch of work in though. It helps to have a workshop setup so you can do things in short 15/20 minutes bursts and just let it sit in the meantime. Getting out to launches took a bunch of work and cooperation from my wife, who's amazing.

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That is tough. Mine is 14 and getting less and less interested.

How could somebody get less interested in rockets?
:rofl:
That doesn't seem possible!

Sometimes you just have to say, "This is something I need in order to be happy. And if I can't make myself happy, then I won't have what I need to be able to make other people happy." As long as you keep it within reason, no one should begrudge you a bit of scheduled time for your hobby that makes you happy.

I have some friends with young families and small kids (I'm married, but don't have kids), and we formed a small backpacking club. The main point of it was to have at least one scheduled meeting a month where we could talk about backpacking, plan trips, and generally BS with each other. It's been great, and just having it as a planned, scheduled thing on the calendar helps to make sure it will happen. We've also managed to get a lot of short backpacking trips in over the years, mostly just overnighters, but a couple longer ones as well. Having the club helps us to keep the idea in front of us that we should be planning trips and provides a time for it. Without that structure, we would never go.

I'm not saying you should form a club, but you may want to designate a structured time to do the things you want. Get your build time and launches on the calendar.

cwbullet said:

That is tough. Mine is 14 and getting less and less interested.

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Our 8 year old loved it at first. Made it easy to justify launches. Now he only wants to go to get flattened pennies at the rest stop, and run around with other peoples kids on the farm.

Thanks for the advice.
Alot of great ideas.
Organizing is my weakness.
I am going to create same time every week rocket time and see how that goes.
Cornyl

Sounds like you already have it figured out but like the other guys said, organize and set a little time aside each week for YOURSELF to do your hobby that you love. : )