Move over Donald Trump

I have an idea for a tv show.

Let me backtrack first.

I went to Lehigh.  Great engineering school.  Great business program.

So I majored in French.

In a graduating class of about 1200, 2 people stood up when they announced the graduates who had earned a BA in French:  one other girl (who, by coincidence, lived on my freshman hall, had a severe lisp, and a really bad case of crabs in the second week of school) and I.  I was in really great company.

But that’s a whole different blog entry.

Anyway, majoring in French at Lehigh was kind of like going to Hawaii for a skiing vacation.  But I had no idea what I wanted to do, and languages have always come fairly easily to me, and that’s what I picked as my major.

I realized I wanted to teach about halfway through my senior year.  So I enrolled in the graduate program at Lehigh, and got my masters in elementary ed two years later.  I got decent grades.  But that education left me totally unprepared for the realities of the classroom and the (unreasonable) demands that would be placed upon me by crazy parents and a spineless administration.  Yeah, I said it.

Okay, so back to my tv show.

A few months ago I wrote an entry entitled the PAT’s (http://nyam.wpengine.com/?p=109).

In order to apply for this tv show, you would first need to successfully complete the PAT’s.

Then, you would be eligible for my show, the Mommy Apprentice.

I’ll take 16 applicants who will then be divided into 2 teams.  At the end of every day, one contestant will be eliminated, if he or she has not already been killed by my children.

A typical challenge would go as follows:

Prepare a  healthy, well-balanced, and economical meal for 2 adults and 7 children ranging in ages from 11 months to 15 years.  You may only prepare one meal, and all 7 children must have at least 8 ounces of milk as their beverage.  Dinner must be ready to eat by 6 pm.  At least 4 children must be in the kitchen the entire time you are preparing the meal, and one must be constantly touching your body.

Once you have decided on your meal and are 10 minutes into its preparation, you will discover that one of the key ingredients is either missing or that it has passed its expiration date by at least 7 days.  Oh yeah, and you only have about a half inch of milk left in the jug in the refrigerator.  In addition, your 15-year-old will tell you at 5:45 that he is now required to be at band practice at 6:00 instead of 6:30.

Ready, set, go.

Stay tuned for the final challenge.  You won’t want to miss it 😉

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