I Am CEO of All I Survey. Sigh.

I am the founder and CEO of two thriving small companies. I work hard to make these companies as successful as they are and will continue to be.  I work from my beautifully appointed office that is located in my home and I regularly put in 12-14 hours days. In fact, I am super woman!

During the course of my day I leave my desk multiple times to do laundry, cook meals, load the dishwasher, pull weeds in the front courtyard  (you get the idea) and then double back to my desk to work on client projects and website builds. The only reason I mention this is that my husband has been home this week on vacation and was frankly startled by how much I move around during the day. My question to him was….”Well, how do you think it is that you come home to a clean house, fresh laundry and a home cooked meal each day?” Apparently some men don’t really notice the obvious as further conversation revealed.

Recently at a family gathering in our home I realized that the “women folk” were gathered in the kitchen discussing just what type of underwear we purchase for our husbands. The debate centered around Fruit of the Loom and my personal favorite, Stafford. Riveting stuff, this.

When mulling over the recent conversation with my dearly beloved, that incident popped into my head and I caught myself wondering just why in the world we, as women and wives are:

1. Ordering or purchasing our mates underclothing.
2. Washing, folding, and putting away said underclothing. (My best guess is that we can’t bear to see it languishing alone and unwashed in a corner somewhere.)
3. Ensuring that white socks and dress socks are strictly segregated. Preferably in their own drawers.
4. Determining which of the white socks go from “OK, you can wear these in public” to “Wear while mowing the lawn only” socks.
5. Convincing our mates that see through underwear MIGHT be sexy, but only if it was originally purchased as such.
6. Enforcing the “No socks in bed – EVER!” rule.
7. Sitting quietly with said mate as he mourns the loss of his oldest T-shirt that he has carried around with him from his college days. OK, now I am just having fun with this. This one hasn’t actually happened in our home. Yet.
8. Explaining slowly and patiently that elastic does not recover from catastrophic stress.

When and how did we acquire such power??

So when people ask me just what it is that I do, I can look them square in the eye and with tremendous pride and only the hint of a sob in my voice, I can proclaim that I am CEO of all I survey.

My question to my sister entrepreneurs is, how do you handle being the CEO of all you survey?