Many a good comedy is made taking someone out of their normal environment and putting them in a new, quite different environment.  I can tell you it's much more fun to watch it in person.

My sister's family has been here before but never in real winter. Our welcome gifts to her and her Hubby were high-efficiency snow brushes for their cars.  With extenders. With scrapers.  The good ones.  They were not impressed.  But I noticed Cara ran back into the house to get hers yesterday.  I think they now understand what a loving gift it really was.

Nephew W traveled with me to run errands in a mini blizzard with his eyes wide open.  What really got him were the elementary school children playing outside at recess in their snow pants and boots.   It had NEVER occurred to him, or Cara for that matter, that elementary school children were not locked in their classrooms for snowy recess, but are actually pushed out the school door after bundling up.

Poor Hubby M and Son A.  They got a crash course in little girls the very first morning.  Son A was ambushed in the hall with B's crushing bear hug.  Poor guy, he's barely agile in the morning and now he has to dodge perky girls in the hallway.  Hubby M was the first one little H saw in the morning.  Because he looks like an adult with a brain, she asked him to help her find clean pa*ties while she darted n*ked around Son A in the hallway.  Hubby M's a helpful guy, but out of his league in the land of little girls and their Dora unmentionables. Until now, I was the only girl in the house. I keep myself covered in Michigan layers and out of the hallway.  And I know where my stuff is.

But we are learning to adjust, and laugh, and share and help.  Good lessons even for a comedy.

Some things are the same, but some are NOT.

Ways we are like the "Sisterwives" on TLC...

-we are both wives
-we live in the same house
-we share household duties
-we spend more time with each other than we spend with our husbands
-each couple has their own bedroom


Ways we are different than "Sisterwives" on TLC...

-we are NOT LDS members (we are Christians)
-we are NOT married to the same man
-our children are cousins ,NOT "piliglets"
-we do NOT each get our own kitchen
-we do NOT have the same last name

So as you can see we don't fit into the classic definition of a "sisterwife", but we feel like it is pretty close.... we are sisters and wives..living in the same house..doing the stay-at-home mom thing together.  Keeping the laundry going no matter whose it is. Making sure that each kid gets to where they need to be and picked up again, no matter which last name they have.  Planning meals, letting dogs out and in, just trying to get our lists of "to-dos" knocked down  each day. 

I think we have the most appealing part of the "Sisterwives" thing going...the relationship and teamwork.  But we don't have to worry about that whole sharing a husband thing (Yuck!!).  This is an interesting experiment.

Cara