My (now) wife and I decided to start a family. After that decision, we were pleasantly surprised that things moved along quicker than expected, but meant we had to accelerate a lot of things. We're both engineers, so we approached it like engineers: take big problems, break into smaller problems, prioritize, delegate, and execute.

Slack helped us keep focused and organized without a lot of effort on our part.

Also we had a lot of luck, pretty much everything went according to plan.