The A&E show Hoarders freaks me out. It’s good motivation. It just wants me to simplify my life and not get caught up in things. I think on a deeper level it shows not to hold onto the past, instead we need to heal it. If you want to sing, give it a go. It you want to be a Tacoma car accident lawyer go to law school. Holding onto the past too much destroys the future.

Every single time I watch it I end up cleaning my entire house from top to bottom, even if it’s not dirty. I’ll obsess about whether keeping a sweater in my closet is worth it if I only wear it a couple times a year. Thank goodness that they don’t run the show about OCD right after that or I’d be a complete mess. I had no idea how the hoarding problem was affecting families. One guy was even going to go to jail for three months because he had all this scrap metal in his yard. He was saving the metal kind of like a retirement fund for his grandkids and it was heartbreaking when he got next to nothing for all his years of hard work.

I was babysitting and the kids were watching icarly. It got me thinking, what would my childhood have been like if there had been such TV characters? I grew up with Facts of Life, Shera and Punky Brewster. With Icarly there was more of what I was/wanted to be/should have had for role models. Pretty women who were still smart and yet extremely sarcastic, the total package. I’m glad that this generation has such role models, but I wish that I would have had them too.

Last night on Jon & Kate plus 8, Kate took the little girls out for a tea party. When the children were recounting the story one of the girls kept adding embellishments, like they were all wearing funny hats.

This made me laugh because I always wanted to go to a “real tea party” when I was a kid. To me that was what adults did. When I finally became an adult I realized that there really was no such thing in my sphere. I also realized that I would probably never live in a dollhouse, although some of the manufactured homes remind me of my dollhouse with it’s blue siding. However, when I was a kid, the grown ups would’ve worn funny hats to the party too. This is one of my favorite events that the parents have orchestrated on reality television and it’s so simple, really anyone could do it. If I was a mom of all those kids I probably would’ve brought my own plastic cups and saucers.