Ugh. My cleaning lady didn’t show up today. Neither did my nanny. Or my trainer, or my chef, or my assistant. Oh wait, I forgot I live in REAL reality and don’t have any of those! Way back before I had my children (three years ago), I remember a co-worker asking me if I was ready to be a mom. I told her I was ready for motherhood, but dreading being a “real” wife….a housewife. No matter how many spinoffs Bravo TV creates, the connotation of a housewife still isn’t glamorous! Trust me, I watch all those trainwreck shows and keep wondering when the “real housewives” are going to appear. Can you imagine?
I’ve had the good fortune of being surrounded by strong, level-headed women who are married and juggling married life with either careers or motherhood, or both. It’s a lot to handle, especially in the real world where there isn’t an entourage to support you and make it appear that you really can do it all. Where is the camera documenting me being woken up at 2:30 am by a fussy one year old who doesn’t want to go back to sleep, but also can’t decide if he wants to lay on the couch with me or play on the floor in the dark so he keeps climbing up and down the couch while I silently scream in my head. The camera still isn’t there when I wake up with a stiff neck from “sleeping” on the couch with my fussy and indecisive son partially resting on my head and my three year old waking up and asking for water and telling me she’s hungry for dinner… at 6:15 in the morning! And the camera still isn’t around as I navigate through the morning routine and still manage to drop my daughter off at school looking presentable and with her lunchbox in hand. Hmm, think anyone would want to watch that show?
Back to the cleaning lady topic. No matter how often I clean my house, it’s still cluttered with toys scattered everywhere, paperwork that needs to be sorted and filed and bathrooms that just never seem clean enough, no matter how many different cleaning solutions and supplies I purchase. I would love for someone to come over and show me how to clean the showers and tubs and let me in on the magic power of getting my kitchen floor cleaned. I also need a lesson in grocery shopping. No matter how much food I buy and money I spend, I still open the fridge and cupboards every night and can’t find anything to make for dinner! Where’s that chef when you need him? Think any of those “real housewives” find themselves in these same or similar situations? Maybe. But of course the cameras don’t show up for that. There, I said it.
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