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I think most of the good advice has already been given so this is mainly repetition.
I didn't ride for the first few months after our daughter was born. Right through the first year it was very disrupted. I remember dns-ing quite a few events I'd entered after we had had a bad night, so it was mainly informal / solo rides.
But daughter is 4 now so things have settled down a bit. So I can ride, but certainly less than I used to before she was born.
I usually do early mornings, 5am starts, both at weekends and through the week. This works as I do evening pickups from nursery and my wife does morning drop offs and, at weekends, neither wife nor daughter are early risers.
I make sure my wife gets her time. She plays tennis and I try to work it so she can play twice a week - once at the weekend and one evening - which is what she wants.
We have regular discussions about what we want to do and what is /isn't working for us, how we can accommodate each other's needs.
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I'd basically like some advice/stories about how to cope when you're riding/cycling stuff interferes with family time. I'm not even doing longer rides (although they are on my dream list some day) and still struggle to get out on the bike for an hour.
TBH, youngest one is 12 weeks, oldest one is 2 years 7 months so I think I'm struggling with some me-problems. I've always had plenty of hobbies and cycling/running is the only thing I've got left now. The oldest one just started becoming more and more independent so got some hobby time back but that's all gone now again.
Don't get me wrong, I love them to death. But I can't see myself bugger of for more than two weeks to do something like the tcr. It feels like I'll be out having "fun" while my other half is left to deal with two demon children. Let alone all the training/preparation.
I feel like the response is to wait till they'll be older but some personal experience from riders here would help place things in perspective.