Real Housewives of FC

I'm assuming most of you haven't been up at 2 a.m. perusing the latest television shows. So I thought I'd fill you in on the quality TV I saw last night... or rather, this morning. The show is called The Real Housewives of OC. I was intrigued by life in Orange County, let's just say it aint Fort Collins - or FC. The 4 women they followed were very CA. One was married and celebrated father's day by giving her husband a "very affordable bracelet less than $2,000", two were divorced - one dealing with a son who just got out of juvey and the other has a daughter who wants nothing to do with her father. Then there is the trophy-wife-to-be. For father's day this 24 year old had to call friends in the grocery store to ask how to shop and later informed her fiance that she would have had the picnic set-up on the beach but then would have had to carry it all herself... probably in a Louis Vuitton picnic basket.

I started to think about the show and thought, what is the Real Housewife of FC like? She stays up late helping her kids with school projects, gets called the meanest mom ever, helps her son blow his nose even though he doesn't want to. She grocery shops when she can squeeze it in, makes lunches & the healthiest dinner she can and doesn't beat herself up if it isn't organic. She doesn't update her wardrobe nearly as often as her kids and makes time for the gym at the crack of dawn, or not. She volunteers endless hours at church and school (or to new babies). She makes time to hang out with friends, dates her husband when she can and even tries to smooch him when he gets home.

Here is to living in a really great place. Where we can lean on each other as Real Housewives of FC. I am blessed with such great girl friends... real women who I have not once heard say she couldn't carry it herself... and thankfully none of us have had to get kids out of juvey. If that day should come, I've got your back.

Thanks for the sisterhood.