MomTime TV

It’s 9AM the day after a busy and productive weekend and I’m on my 3rd  
load of wash, I’ve taken my daughter to summer school, taken out the  
trash, battled with the print scanner, shopped for pens (the kids are  
home and they walk off with them), driven across town to pick up a  
scanner, and for the first time ever saw part of an episode of Jon &  
Kate + 8!

I’ve been fascinated by the idea of Jon & Kate + 8, but aside from  
seeing a cool billboard for their show when I was in NYC, never paid  
too much attention.  With 5 kids of my own at home and 2 bonus kids in  
their own homes, the idea of hyperventilating over someone else’s 8  
kids wasn’t exactly what I was looking for.

But since the media started a frenzy over their lives and everyone,  
even us moms, have things to say about this, I’ll take my turn.

What is the point of the big Hollywood production!  The kids are the  
only ones acting real and they spent the whole show trying to make  
them act like they wanted them to act.  I got to see the whole  
craziness & zaniness of a multiple photo shoot of all 10 of them.   
They shot photos for a magazine cover and to accompany the story about  
the family in the magazine.

We saw a very boring interview with Jon & Kate narrating the day and  
complaining about how hard it was!  Surrounded by an entourage of  
every possible category of worker to keep them happy and make things  
easy...nobody was happy.  The unhappy couple smiled for the cameras,  
but looked perturbed for everything else.  Don’t know about you, but  
if my family had this much help and attention, we would be smiling and  
laughing about it all for months!

Everyone was immaculately dressed with different outfits for different  
photos.  And someone was actually thinking about how to set them all  
up properly for the photo of a lifetime.  Not the two rows our  
families would do!  Based on what I saw, I’m pretty sure that the kids  
were dressed by experts other than their mom who was probably being  
primped and decorated by her own handler!

Neither parent seemed too interested in the kids...or each other for  
that matter.  Okay, tell me the point of this show that is supposed to  
reflect the real life of real people with 8 kids, when nothing they  
stage is real life?  You could put actors in these roles and get the  
same thing.  I found it more interesting to watch the entourage behind  
the scenes setting up everything that was going on.

Maybe real life is too really boring for us to watch.  But after  
seeing this show, I just felt like the point was pointless.  And I  
came out empty handed and empty headed, feeling sorry for the loss of  
a family, the loss of a childhood for those kids, and the wealth and  
perfection that carries it’s own ho-hum brand of boredom.

Wherever they’re going with their lives and family, whoever’s doing  
what to who, who’s the good guy, who’s the bad guy...you gotta go back  
to the beginning, back to your dream and your values and yourself and  
back to the basics of life...to have a life.  Good luck with that!

And now, on to load 4 (of laundry) of course!

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