Who has time for friends at this stage in life?

I’m in the thick of it with kids at different stages (a high school senior and one just entering middle school,) working full-time, and somehow marriage that right now just involves watching something on tv before bed at 10 and then rinse and repeat the following day.

Our weekends are spent getting the kids to some sort of practice or helping our oldest get ready to apply to college, in between piles of laundry and maybe getting a walk in with the dogs.

I just feel like at this age, our life is really not our own and I find my own friendships fading away.

Who has time for friends right now and what is your secret? Or is this just expected? Anyone else wondering when they became the parents on 90210 or Dawsons Creek where they were always there for their kids and their kids friends but didn’t manage to have a life of their own?