Before you’re browbeaten by the leaden weight of a holiday week spent with extended family, far too much sugar, and not nearly enough booze, I need to remind you to set your TiVos and DVRs.  You need to get this on tape.  ABC News will air “Caught,” a special two-hour edition of “20/20” on Friday Dec.29, at 9pm, ET. While the episode’s focus is a year in review of the digital video phenomenon—covering everything from YouTube to TMZ to scandalous sex tapes—they’ve also found room for moi.  There’s a lot of talk about privacy issues when there’s mention of surveillance cameras and video cell phones, so they came to me (and filmed me in my home and at the NICU with our babies!) wanting to know why someone, such as myself, would choose to put so much of themselves out there, for the general public. Why be so TMI in a world of blogs, where future employers and anyone with an Internet connection can google you?  Why the hell would someone choose to put so much of herself out there, sharing details usually reserved for the diaries we keep locked and stowed away in the darkest parts of our lives?  I’ll tell you, and the rest of the nation, when the episode airs this Friday.

And yes, it was strange being filmed only a week after giving birth, but the interview had been scheduled for Monday, and since I’d gone into labor on the Thursday prior, there was no way I could be alert enough to answer questions, even just about myself.  They were accomodating enough to fly to Austin later in the week, only now they asked, very politely and in a way that didn’t feel invasive at all, if they could film me with our children.  At first, I felt strange about it.  Like I was invading their privacy, little Lucas and Abigail, but Philip convinced me, insisting, "It might help someone else feel less alone, struggling with a premature child."  So that was that.  I haven’t seen the episode, or any of the footage, and will be watching it with the rest of you on Friday as we nurse our hangovers, or children, as the case may be.  Hope you’re having a warm delicious holiday filled with food coma, wrapping paper, and recycled holiday TV.