Honest opinions please!
I have had horses all my life on and off since a small child. My last one I sold when pg 4 years ago.
My circumstances at the moment: Work full time, 2 pre-school kids in full time nursery. We leave the house each day at 7:45 am and return at 6:30 pm, then it's bath time bed time chaos, eat dinner, do the minimum house work to keep us ticking over (dishwasher, washing), fall into bed and start again the next day. This is the same schedule for DH too, by the way - we work at the same place and he easily does at least 50/50 around the house and with the kids.
Could I possibly have a horse given this schedule? It feels really frustrating that I can't. We live in a village. There's a field available to rent across the lane. There's a livery yard 1.5 miles from our house. I even know of a horse available for summer loan.
But... I am under no illusions about the time required to keep a horse. I can't afford full livery any more. I worry about the responsibility, and cannot see how I could tend to a horse at all on weekdays.
DH would love me to have a horse again, and would be really supportive. He even suggested it when we were on holiday and I rode a friend's horse several times (and hung around the stables like a 10 year old!
). But I can't see how it would work as at the moment our priorities are 1. family, 2. work, 3. everything else.
Not possible, is it? Tell me what you think, please.