After reading my friend Minita's blog, I was inspired to detail the top ten super powers a mom possesses. Here goes:
10. The amazing hug: A mom can cure anything from a bump on the head to a common cold or stomach flu with a simple, warm hug.
9. The 12-armed creature: A mom seems to have 100 different things that she needs to carry in from a trip to the store, and can somehow manage to get it all inside with just one trip!
8. The awesome toy fixer: Mom's all know how to repair a broken toy, because when we buy it, or when a friend or family member gives it to our children, we spend hours reading and memorizing the owner's manuals. We can do anything from changing the batteries to using super glue to fix a broken something they've stepped on.
7. We can cure hunger: Children have bottomless pits for stomachs, and us moms know how to get in the kitchen and whip up a quick cure for their grumbling little tummies! We have become masters of the ten minute meals.
6. Super noses: Mom's can smell strange things and sniff around just the right spots to find that dirty diaper we swore we threw out with the trash, or that left-over casserole in the back of the fridge like no other!
5. Cleaning machines: A mom can somehow keep the kids, the kitchen and the bathroom all clean and ready for company and the uninvited drop-in guests. And, they can pick up the toys on the living room floor in 0.4 seconds or less. But, when you visit them, they will always start out an invite in with the phrase, "Please excuse the mess..." Which leads me to super power #4.
4. Unending humility: A mom knows deep down that her job as a mom is the toughest one she will ever have, and it requires no degree, no experience, and no expertise, yet when you compliment them, they will all act like it's nothing. They are the most humble, yet deserving, creatures on this earth!
3. Kid magnet: All kids will somehow know that you are a mom, and seek you out if they can't find their own mom and have a boo-boo, or are in need of a hug. You become a kid magnet the day you enter into motherhood.
2. The ability to look great all the time: A mom may be run-down, worn out, sleep deprived, have on NO make-up, messy hair, and be sick with the flu, but she still radiates and looks fabulous, somehow. THAT is an amazing feat!
1. And, the number ONE super power a mom has is... (drum roll)... The ability to function on little to no sleep. A mom can cook, clean the house, do laundry, work a job, take care of kids, correct homework, give baths, pick up toys, drive the kids around, grocery shop, run errands, fix broken household appliances, do simple auto repairs, make all the beds in the house, reorganize the pantry, attend kid's school functions and plays, chaperon a school dance, make cookies for a bake sale, keep up with her friends and family, send correspondences, make important phone calls, take the kids to the doctor's office, fight on the phone with collection agencies, and still somehow, she gets out of bed the next day to do it all over again with a smile on her face, just to hear 4 simple words: "I love you, mom."
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