Do you own your life?

I'm a mom of 4. What time isn't taken up by sleeping, working, etc is taken up by them. They dictate when I get to sleep and for how long, what chores I have to do that day, when we are having dinner and a lot of times what we are eating. The only time I have me time is when I take me time to find someone with enough time to take them off of my hands. lol That was a mouthful.

You may be right, that's why we should try to find something we enjoy in most of our "necessary activities". This approach will make us think that we own our lives, as you say, since we are doing what we like, and what it needs to be done. It's not such a quantitative matter, but more a qualitative one...Depending on your needs and on the status of meeting them, the "time for yourself" could mean more or less, but it sure gains more than a little bit with this approach...