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20 Ways You May Be The Original American Housewife

Do you see the humor and similarities of Katie Otto and yourself?

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Have you picked up on the latest hot show, "American Housewife"? I was a bit of a skeptic when I watched it for the first time but then she was considered the "fat" mom and I was hooked.

Let's be honest, Katie (played by Katy Mixon) is far from fat. She is average sized and stunning actually. It is refreshing to see sitcoms and comedies with realistic families both look and plot wise. I am of course up to date on every episode, especially since I noticed similarities to myself and my time as a mother; minus the episode where Katie is having creepy fantasies about the teenage boy:

1.My husband and I can lie in bed asleep and the children come repeatedly and wake ONLY me up for help or questions. As a result, I am angry at him and he never even knows.

2. I can 100 percent relate to the episode where Greg is sick and Katie is tired. It's like you are exhausted or quite likely sick, but then your husband has the man-flu. This means he is confined to the bed, whining, expecting you to take care of everything and everyone, including himself.

3. This conversation from episode 2 sums it up!

Oliver: You don't know what happens in business, you don't even have a job! Woah, wait, why did we pull over?

Katie: What did you just say?

Oliver: I love you?

Katie: Did you just say I don't have a job? For your information being a stay at home mom IS MY JOB but apparently today I'm really crappy at it!

4. So when I go on play dates or field trips I constantly see, “Westport mommies” with their “flat stomachs, tight, high asses, thighs that don’t touch and those stupid green drinks.”

5. "Even though you aren't supposed to have favorites, I have my Anna-Kat and have even said it out loud to my husband. "

6. "I love when she needed a nap and dozed off in the car rider line, but had to unzip her pants first!" #momlife

7. This may seem harsh but I think a lot of us have that child that is not so intelligent and now, after watching the American Housewife we just look at them and see Taylor!

8. You may not admit it, but I think when you live in a community of housewives, you do look at others like "I may be fat but I am not that fat."

9. We notice unfavorable traits developing in our kids, like materialism or selfishness, like Oliver, and over react that they will become little psychopaths no matter how hard we try to change the course.

10. Much like Katie when she was wearing her pizza stained shirt backwards, I have been in Kroger our out somewhere and had someone asked me if I meant to wear mine inside out. (Duh, hiding chocolate finger print stains)

11. Walking through the grocery store is sampling NOT stealing.

12. We have had to steal from our kids a few times to teach them how it feels to be stolen from.

13. When my kids lie, steal, or cheat, I punish them like they are inmates, so they understand what could happen if they act like criminals. We have done trash pick up and kid jail which means confined to their rooms with no entertainment or human contact besides getting their meals and going potty.

14. My mother in law is constantly taking the spot light from our kids. I have had to flip just like Katie on her mom.

15. I can totally relate to this! Greg goes, "Oh why don't we go to a movie," or something to that extent, and shes like "oh! that sounds.....totally exhausting."

16. Sometimes my husband is a sissy like Greg until I knock some sense into him.

17. I have spied on my kids through their phones before.

18. One episode, Katie curled up with a blanket and bowl of ice cream after the kids are in bed (also rocking the mom bun) and I laughed because it was completely like me!

19. I have always tapped my fingers together like Anna Kat when I am nervous or anxious so when I saw Katie, Greg, Oliver, and Taylor doing it, that cracked me up.

20. I am the odd mom out. No PTA for me, not an art parent, jock parent, techie or rich mom. It's like cliques are every where even as adults.

As long as this show may air, I will forever relate.

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