The days are just packed.  My intend last night when it's all said and done was to enjoy an hour or two of Danganronpa or Senran Kagura Shinovi Versus.  Didn't happen.  Here's why.

I briefly left work around 4 in the afternoon to pick up my kid from after school care.  So she stayed with my at the office intil 5, and we when to Gamestop so I could purchase a $20 PSN card.  After we came back home, the three of us went out for calzones (inside out pizzas) at a local pizza place.  The food and company was great, but the cool part was meeting some of my wife's new coworkers who were MARVEL and Doctor Who fans.

When we returned home, I played a game my kid had made up that had something to do with LEGO Friends, rhyming words, and scavenger hunting all put together.  If any of you have read Calvin n Hobbes and have followed Calvin's antics of "Calvinball," you should have some idea of what we were doing.  Then, there was bath and bedtime.  I had opted to stay with my daughter for a while because the previous night she had a nightmare that she was never going to see mom and dad again.  So I stayed with her, and she eventually fell asleep.

Okay, now it was "me" time.  The plan was to get some dishes done, apply some blue tape to walls that needed to be painted soon, and then I was going to sit down in front of the 55" LED TV to game for an hour or two before bed.  But the last thing I remembered was waking up to my cellphone alarm at 6 the next morning with my contact lens still on while not recalling how did I get from my daughter's room to my bed.  So no gameplay for me.

Now, this is not my typical weekday night.  But it's hard to get sufficent gameplay in these days.  Let me be clear that I have a lot to be thankful for.  But it's hard to engage in a hobby you've already invest so much resources in but yet your limiting factor is time.  And I'm thankful that for the most part, my priorities are straight.  I just wish I has gotten some decent gameplay in before the day was through.  Obviously, it ended sooner than I would have liked.  :)

Not dissin' your child (obviously), but thank god I don't have children myself.

You sound like a good parent.  One thing I've found is as they age eventually "me time with video games" becomes "us time with video games" and that's actually been a happy turn of events.  

It started with lego type games and others I likely don't remember to recently with NMS.  Its been a neat journey and quality bonding.  

Dude you should be careful falling asleep with your contacts on. My niece done that and managed to scratch her eye in her sleep due to the contact. She had to go have eye surgery.

I don't have children just yet but I am married. Obviously. I can't game as much as I used to and I'm sure that time will dwindle even more if a child does come.

I'm glad you have your priorities straight though. Family is much more important and as parents, it is our responsibility to care for our kids, often at the expense of our own hobbies!

I don't know what kind of advice I can really give other than maybe sharing your hobby with your daughter. You can spend a lot of quality time together that way. Of course, there needs to be a balance as well.

I do have those "you-can-sleep-with" contacts that I NEVER intentionally sleep in.  Last night was that rare instance.  But thanks for the warning.

I try, but it's tough.  But thanks.  My daughter has had her fair taste in video games at the young age of 5.  The three of us have played Turtles Re-Shelled together.  We've done a little LEGO Dimensions togehter, but her lack of reading skills sort of hinders the progress.  She understands the basics of the Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth 1 battle system so she has leveled up my characters for me.  She's dabbled with the first Super Mario Bros.  And she's watched me play some, but I need to be careful with what she sees.