Losing Time

I remember watching "Everyone Loves Raymond" (back when a new episode was aired weekly) and thinking how weird the episode was that centered around Frank "sniffing" the kids' heads and saying something to the effect of "I'm sucking in the youth."  Weird, it was weird....right? 

Nope. It wasn't weird, I just didn't understand.

Maisie is now 2 and Logan will be 4 next week...4!  When did I get here?  I have a 4 year old.  We are talking about kindergarten and private v/s public school.  I thought there would be more time before this happened. 

More Time.  That is quite a notion if you really think about it. I just need more time to finish my homework. If I'd just had more time to study. I wish I'd had more time to play/hang out/chat.  There need to be more hours in the day.  I've uttered these phrases and others like them a million times and every time I've said them it's related to work...school work, house work, working on a friendships and work work.  Rarely have I ever said them and really meant them.

What is a more realistic thought/statement/notion is that I'm losing time.  I'm losing valuable growing moments with my kids while I'm worrying about catching up on laundry or