School Starts tomorrow

UGH!
So we just got the kids to bed... 8:30pm.... We had to start getting them showers and ready for bed at 7pm then start devotions at 7:30pm then the last light off was 8:30pm.....

Have you ever thought that after a long day of work... say 7am to 5pm...
         -  You get up at 5am
         -  You get the kids off by 6:30am or in our case drop them off by 7am....
         -  Then you get home by hopefully 5pm
         -  You make dinner - Do homework - Get the kids showered / get ready for bed / devotions 8:30 lights                                        
             out ... then you get yourself ready for bed and then
         -  Get up and do it again........

After this day you have basically spent all your time with your Kids (whom you should be investing your life / time / love / nurturing into) getting them out of bed / ready for school / pick them up / get homework done / get them ready fed / ready for bed in all but a matter of 5 hours....  Where have our priorities gone or maybe where has the chance to rearrange our priorities gone.  We take kids away everyday in our country because of neglect and lack of focus on them... and then we look at the responsible parent and the day they are dealt (as I just showed) and realize that we are almost forced to neglect our time with our children.  I sometimes cry myself to sleep or cry thinking about how someone else get to spend more time with my kids then I do, and how someone else basically gets more of an opportunity to invest ethics and morality into my kids before or if I ever get the chance.  Sometimes I feel that the gods of this world dictate to us how much time we get to spend with our children and that our "NEW" role in our children's lives is one of "Get the kid ready for me (god of the world) let me do what is necessary and more important because I know how to do this better, then you get them and do more work with them put them to bed and let me do it again tomorrow, because remember I know better!", oh and "I can parent better than you can, and I can teach them so much more than you can ever teach them!, oh yes and "You need to work more hours to make more money because if you don't I'll just take them away from you because you are not doing near as much as I (god of the world) can do for them!".....

Ok ok the last part might be a bit over the top and dramatic but I am beginning to wonder that Satan has more of a hold on our family structure than we tend to realize.  You are the best thing for your family... Not the rules and regulations that are set before you.  But we are pulled so far away from them by the knowledge that if we don't do what these rules and regulations require of us then we will loose those most precious to us because "We don't care enough"....   My heart breaks because of this... I love my children and want to instill as much as I can into their lives, but it is so difficult in the world we live in with our FIVE hours we get with them during the day!  I pray that as we become more and more wiser / smarter / and more efficient as a country that we would realize and make every effort to make a majority of our day to instilling life into our Children, but not through other's time but OUR's.

Not sure if my rambling makes sense...   but my prayer will be prayed until we get this time............!