The Wonders of Cotton: Knitting your own Friends

Wow! Have you ever thought of moving to a subdivision thinking that you would have close knit friends and neighbors? Well, I know that I do not ever want to live in a subdivision after watching Desperate Housewives. Affairs, arson, hit and run accidents. Yes, it keeps you well entertained but sure makes you rethink who your true friends are. I absolutely love watching it, though. It keeps me on the edge of my chair and guessing every episode what will happen next.

I remember when I first watched the show. I only watched it because my husband thought Eva Longoria was hot. But by the end of the first episode there was so much happening that I was already hooked. Yes, it has pretty girls on it, some good looking guys too, but there is a whole lot more than that. IT has sex, lies, affairs, and a lot of scandal. I love to watch and see what might happen on the next episode.

Terri Hatcher starts out as this needy housewife who cannot seem to live without one guy or another in her life. The further the show gets the more independent she gets. Eva Longoria, the hot model housewife, is married to a sexy Mexican. Then later in the show she has children. We all know what happens after you have kids. Yes, that’s right. She got fat. Lucky for her, her husband was blind. She later decides that she wants her old body back and works hard to get it. I personally liked her better when she looked like a normal mother who had two children back to back. I had three so I know what a real mother's body looks like, especially when you are still chasing the children around.

I really love how the whole show is portrayed around the suicide of one of the housewives. She committed suicide in the first episode and it really takes awhile to figure out why. I do not believe in suicide but as soon as you find out why she did it, it makes you really think about how far you would go to protect your family. Especially your children. My children are my life and I would fight until the death for each and every one of them.

Each episode that I watch that someone experiences a loss; I am amazed at the different ways they react. There was the death of a mother-in-law in which her daughter-in-law reacted quite similar to how I would react, relief for myself and yet sympathy for my husband. There was one episode where Bree experiences the loss of her husband. She actually makes him wait for her to make the bed while he is having a heart attack, a put together housewife that sometimes puts her perfection above all else. I cannot imagine the guilt that a real person would feel for doing something like that.

All these reasons and so much more are the reasons why I love watching Desperate Housewives. I love it so much, in fact, that I ordered it off of Netflix so I could watch it from beginning to the newest episodes. It is awesome and I highly recommend you watch it if you have never seen it.