Lee has an excellent post about being the Daddy and having “mommy envy.” Thanks to Genuine for the heads up.

Reflecting on my situation, I guess I have it better than some. I live close to work in a fairly small town. It changes from time to time, but right now my wife has to be at work before I do so I get the kids up and dressed, try and get them to eat something semi-healthy (what we need is Skittles cereal) and take them to school or day care. In the afternoon about half the time I pick them up. My wife and I each juggle the soccer practices and other meetings and things.

So this morning I was thinking that what could have been a ten or fifteen minute drive to work turned into an hour of driving back and forth (forgot something) and smiling and giving status updates to teachers and sitters and double checking that I left the kids in the right place with the right lunch and I was being pretty hard on myself and thinking “will it ever end?” Now after reading some other comments on this, perhaps I should relax a bit and not be in a hurry for it to end.

They do grow up, fast.