My wife and I have 4 kids 8 and under, and that paragraph is really making me think about my life - it resonates with my day-to-day experience and I wonder if it isn't time to scale way back on the various things I'm (perhaps ineffectively) trying to accomplish in my current life phase.

Encouragingly, life phases always transition into something else at some point...so there is an end in sight. And it is so very worth it to not toss "spending time with my kids" out in place of a "hobby" like writing a blog.