We’re only on Week 4 of Desperate Housewives here. I couldn’t imagine that the programme would live up to all the hype from the US, but I watch out of sheer horror at the way it reflects how my life sometimes is, and how it will be most of the time if we have more children. My husband watches too and I like to think that he has a little bit more sympathy for my life after each episode. I’m quite sure he’ll never ask me now if I remember how it feels to work a 60 hour week. Of course I’m talking about Lynette, the mother of four children, three of whom are truly naughty boys.

As I am the harrassed mother of two properly naughty boys and I aspire to have two more children, it’s no surprise to find that:

Congratulations! You are Lynette Scavo, the
ex-career woman who traded the boardroom for
boredom, mixed with moments of sheer panic as
the mother of four unmanageable kids.

Which Desperate Housewife are you?
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I don’t generally like these quiz things, but AIN’T THAT THE TRUTH?

When we watch Lynette in action, I can see the cogs turning in husband’s brain as he thinks “this will put wifey off having any more babies”. Ha! I’m Type A, remember. It’ll take more than that to deter me.

It turns out that my husband and most of his male colleagues watch the show – something to do with the “fit bird”. Could be any one of them really. EXCEPT LYNETTE. But if it gives my husband any idea of how crap some days as a mother of small children can be then I really JUST DON’T CARE who he looks at.

Besides, if I’m honest, I really only watch it because of the plumber.