When Work and Life Are Unbalanced

If there could ever be such a thing as work/life balance I'm quite off balance lately. As you may have noticed, my weekly email didn't go out on Thursday. That's because my balance scale shifted to family. I am spending time with Megan, my youngest daughter who is in town for her baby shower. I tried, but writing the email just wasn’t going to happen. (For photos of the shower, see below.)
Work/life balance seems to be the buzz word these days, but seriously—can we really achieve it? As my dear friend and speaker Bruce Wilkinson says, "Whoever said they had work life balance must have been drunk or high." 
I wonder if any parent of a newborn ever thought about taking a break from the intense parenting stage to go to work more often because they are spending too much time on family? Or would an Executive who needs to meet a tight deadline to land a high paying client say, “I can't spend time on this because it would put me out of balance”? Of course not.
I would like to propose another term for work/life balance. I prefer the term work/life seasons. This is truly how life is. There are seasons when the kids are small and evenings and weekends are filled with activities, seasons when work requires our evenings and weekends and there are seasons when we’re sandwiched between aging parents and growing children. Life happens and we suddenly have to adjust our priorities. 
In reality, we only have one life, not two. Forget balance and just enjoy the season, being present in the moment. 
Click here for photos of our current season. Note the Jr. photographer (that's our 8 year old Granddaughter Aubreigh)
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Be Well,
Angela Decoteau 
(pronounced Deck uh toe)

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