Where's MY Life Balance?!

As a life coach I sometimes wonder if I'm expected to be the perfect example of "having it all." When I get off my path I wonder what I would tell a client who is going down the same detour. Well, let me tell you - that isn't easy. It's probably akin to a chiropractor doing her own adjustment....or a dentist pulling his own tooth...OUCH!

So, here I am. My 21-year-old twin daughters living back at home. Life Balance? Did I ever talk to you about life balance? Well, feed it back to me will ya!? Oh yes, having my girls back home is a walk down memory lane alright. Their loving conversations go something like this:

"No Kim, those are YOUR dirty dishes!"
"Right Lauren, like I ate 2 plates of eggs for breakfast this morning."
"They're not both from eggs dumbo, that's your grilled cheese!"

Standing there dumb-founded and speechless I think, I can help a CEO of a major corporation develop the strategy to launch the next super-technology of the decade, but I can't get my kids to clean out the sink. What's that all about?

Life is fabulous though. Because for all the headaches and loss of household peace, I've gotten the opportunity to connect with my girls in a much different way. Kids change once they leave home - mine changed for the better. (Oh, ya - it used to be worse.) They now know why they need to turn off the lights and close the refrigerator door. They now do their laundry and consider it a privilege because they don't have to drop their paycheck in the mouth of a quarter-eating machine. But most of all, they now have enough real-life experience to understand Mom and what Mom does for a living. Get this: my kids are proud of me! How cool is that? And, are you ready for this one? They seem to respect my opinion....yup, little ol' me knows what I'm talking about....most of the time anyway.

So, is it worth it? Some days I wonder, but not for long. We talk, we cry, we laugh about the same things - yes, it's worth it. And somewhere in the clutter of a messy kitchen and 3 additional four-legged friends, I find time to regain my total peace and life balance. I just have to look a little deeper.