My two new favorite TV series of this Spring season are Whiskey Cavalier (ABC) and The Enemy Within (NBC). Though they are totally different in style and tone, both feature a male FBI agent and a female CIA operative working together to track down leads, solve crimes, and catch the bad guys.
Spending all this time in the Situation Room got me thinking about how mom life is a lot like spy life. Besides the obvious, which is that we have to sometimes actually spy on our kids to monitor their cell phone and social media usage, here are a few not -so-obvious ways that being a mom is like being in the CIA:
1. You have multiple identities.
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