This past week I once again experienced the "single parent" life by taking care of my 11 month old son while my wife was away with our daughter. Some people would be daunted by the task of baby wrangling but this was not my first time. Furthermore I personally believe that my son, our second is much more forgiving and easygoing than his sister.

The key point I gather during prior experiences is that babies like schedules. They like to eat, sleep, and poop at the same time every day. If you avoid this schedule or meander away from it then you may enter uncharted territory. It may surprise some first time parents but babies are easy, especially compared to a 3 year old. I have no idea how my wife kept sane during the 9.5 hour flight back from Europe. Needless to say the child was bouncing off the walls this morning after a 14 hour recovery sleep.

At any rate we both were able to spend some quality time with the kids and I think we were able to bond more with them one on one. While it's great to take the big family trips together sometimes it's equally as rewarding to spend some time with one kid away from the distraction of the others. As life becomes increasingly busy I'm sure that this will become harder to achieve, but the experience is none the less rewarding.