Guest post written by Sidney Owens

My mom and I love to watch those trashy reality shows so she got me some direct tv packages for Christmas I think in part because she was sick of me piling into her living room once a week to watch our Housewives. I’m pretty partial to the Housewives of Atlanta but my mom really likes the ladies of Beverly Hills but I think it’s in part because she thinks they’re classier or something equally ridiculous.Now we just watch together over the phone which always makes my husband roll his eyes but I love that we’ve got something like this that we can connect over at the end of the day. My mom and I haven’t always seen eye to eye on everything so the fact that we like the same TV show means that things have never been better between us and I’m really grateful for that. I love being close to my mom again even if it took a funny show like Housewives to pull us in that direction!