In a previous life (as a Franklin day planner dude), I'd say "Values conflict! Check your prioritized values list, and you will know what to do." The interesting thing is that this approach is actually consistent with GTD.

The book talks about the view from 10,000 ft. vs. the view from the runway. GTD is very much about the runway (and therefore not so much about the view from 10,000 ft.). The prioritized values list is a 10,000 ft. thing, and I think it speaks to your situation.

You already know that kids, work and school trump music. Thus the actions that you know you must commit to are kids, work and school. Therefore, the GTD thing to do is to put music on the "Somday/maybe" list.

However, that is only part of the story. During your weekly review, plot, scheme, brainstorm, or whatever to see if there is a way to get a music NA.

You say you are studying again. Does this mean that you are going to school? If so, someone else is watching the kids while you are at school, yes? Maybe you could arrange to use a practice room in the music department's building before or after your class?

Thanks yucca
I'm studying externally, from home/online. Yes there is some time where the kids are at kindy but it is only about 10 hours a week and its my time to do everything including study. So thanks for trying to give me some ideas but I think it just has to stay on the saomeday list for now. The kids won't be small forever, although somedays feel like forever.
Cheers
Marina

As a novice w/ GTD, one thing that is helping me so far (even with things I know I can't implement right now), is to have a little brainstorming session about what "next action" might get me closer to being able to accomplish that goal. Even if that is still something I can't act on, I usually feel a little better about it and file it away until the next review. Often, by the next review, I can either come up with some new ideas or my goal seems a little more in reach than it did the last time I filed it away (or both!).

I don't think GTD (despite the name) is about getting everything done RIGHT NOW, it is about getting all your THINKING done which will then lead to getting things done. But if you don't use it to get all this thinking done ahead of time, you won't be ahead of the game and prepared to get those things done when the opportunity comes, because you might not even know what that opportunity is. I have found a lot more things possible than I thought when I was able to break them into tiny steps/next actions, and you feel better about things when you are at least making SOME progress on them in some way. It still might take as long as you originally thought, but tiny steps toward your goal may make you feel better than doing nothing and hoping it will all come together some point down the road.

I think that GTD could help you in two ways:

1. If you have a very clear next actions list, you won't waste any of your precious kid down-time (whatever that is that happens to free your attention up) thinking of what you can do. Likely you'll already be a little drained from keeping up with them (I have a toddler of my own) and your brain will have a little bit of resistance to thinking up something new to keep you busy. It might trick you by thinking, "I have to keep the noise down, so there's nothing really productive that I can accomplish right now--maybe it's best just to rest a little."
On the other hand, if you have a good na list, you'll see that your projects have lots of little steps that can still be accomplished during those times.
In fact, you'll probably want to have two contexts: @home-quite, @home-loud, to differentiate those two different environments.

2. Be diligent about keeping your Someday/maybe list. Having kids will definitely mean that somethings get postponed, but too often our little micro-dreams (those little things that make up our larger life plans) fade from our memory under the tide of day-to-day living and activities. My wife was pretty excited when we found a printmaking art exchange online last May. I saw the bookmark in the browser list the other day and asked her if she was still intending to make that one of her goals, and even though she hadn't completely forgotten about it, she hadn't thought about it in months. The someday/maybe list can help rekindle those little bursts of excitement we have as we think about the possibilities that lie ahead.