Yup I hear ya.
For the longest time I got out very little for hunting season. Hubby would pack up his gear and go but there I was stuck either with the kid or workin or both. The first 15 years I hunted I bet I only got in about a month or so in all that time.
Now the only thing I really have to worry bout is dog sitters cause most of the hunting we do the dogs stay home. They participate for the trackin/recovering process, except for deer where we hunt down south and the dogs stay home with a sitter.
It's great. I've hunted more in the last five years than I did in the entire 15 years before that.
I still gotta do the 'woman's work' before I can really get out but at least now I don't have to worry bout the kids. Even better two of the kids go with us sometimes. My daughter is on her own now but she still hunts with us, and now our niece who lives with us hunts also.
We're headed south for the deer hunt in a couple of weeks and none of the kids are going so I got built-in sitters for the dogs this time.