S3 • E12 Dec 21, 2006
Rachelle Errington and Trish Connelly have been good friends for twenty years, but their lifestyles these days couldn't be more different, and it's straining their relationship. Rachelle is a busy, devoted mom who's always running late. She has five kids, ranging in age from two to 18, and they are the one and only priority in her life. Trish is a successful fashion photographer who is single, has no kids, and no responsibility to anyone other than herself. Trish wants Rachelle to reclaim quality time for herself, and to carve out more time for the two of them to spend together as friends. She constantly criticizes Rachelle for being late and believes that she could institute a more professional way of mothering, one that's based on scheduling, prioritizing, and putting the kids to work. As Trish begins her 48-hour stint as a Crash Test Mommy, she thinks the kids are in for a rude awakening. But it could be Trish who's in for the shock. Can she begin to understand the pressures and the joys of motherhood, or will she insist that there's only one right way to parent (hers) and destroy a lifelong friendship in the process?
