I admit it: I love TV.

I love TV so much that I've stopped adding season passes to my TiVo-- there's no time to watch new shows! But the recently ended writer's strike has left a gap in my viewing schedule, and the commercials for The Secret Life Of A Soccer Mom on TLC were too intriguing to ignore.

The premise is simple: take a SAHM who gave up an outside career in order to take care of her family, and throw her right back into it. Is it all that she remembers? Will she sink or swim? And will she choose to go back to that career?

As an added twist, their unsuspecting husbands have no clue their wives are off trying a career on for size. They think mom's off at a spa, and struggle with the caretaking duties while she is away.

In the first episode, mom Adrian blossomed as a fashion designer and accepted a full-time job at a design house at the end of the show. In the next episode, Katie proved her mettle as a gourmet chef but turned down the subsequent job offer at a chic restaurant; she wasn't ready to leave her preschool-aged sons.

The show is bittersweet; these moms clearly long for their former careers and their husbands rejoice in their accomplishments. But real-life decisions are nuanced and delicate, and the show reflects that.

Of course, Adrian's decision to go back to work triggered ?a predictable backlash from the judgy judgers, who used TLC's message boards to spew anonymous venom:

The posts said the premise of the show is "sick" and Adrian is "selfish." One mom wrote, "Let's show the other side of the story ... how the kids' world is going to be turned upside down by having to go to day care." Another woman goes even further: "Unless you're about to starve there is no reason for you to be at work. If you didn't want to raise your children, you should not have had them. It's child abandonment."

So since 70 percent of women with children under 18 work outside the home...that's A LOT of abandoned children running around! Speaking of which, I should see what my little 3-year-old munchkin is up to...it just occurred to me that I haven't seen or fed her in a couple of days. What can I say, I'm a working mom! I hope she didn't wander down the highway again...

Anyhoo...would you ever consider appearing on a show like this? What career would you want to try on for size? What are some of your favorite reality shows? And do you find the term "soccer mom" as annoying as I do?