If Momley is a superhero...

Hans, as everyone knows, is obsessed with superheroes. For the most part, I enjoy his conversations about them. However, lately, I have been encouraging him to create his own superheroes. I was hoping for originality in his imagination. Most of the time I get "crossover" superheroes - like Ninjago meets DC/Marvel Universe. So, I keep challenging Hans to imagine better! One day, he turned it around and asked me to imagine myself as a superhero and come up with 2 powers. Unfortunately, I could come up with only one super power - healing hands! It is a little lame, however that appealed to my personality. Maybe I was just stretching the "helping hands" bit!

A few days later, Hans stopped bugging me about my other super power. As they say "life gets in the way" and it did. I was constantly on Hans' case for other things like piano practice, school homework, art work, etc. Sometimes the child tests my patience and I do raise my voice, and the standard response is "OK OK I will do it! Stop screaming!".

So, in Hans' usual style, he let me know what my other super power is! He told me that it is screaming; he is pretty sure any bad guy will run away rather than face my screaming! Do I sound that bad?!

Super powers or not, I think Momley is a superhero. Who else serves as an alarm for 3 boys (an adult, a teenager and a kid) and gets them ready for the day?! On that note, Hans has recently objected to my screaming his name from the kitchen to wake him up! He wants me to go up the stairs, in the middle of making breakfast and packing lunches, to gently whisper his name to wake him up! What alarm does that?! But Momley does!

So if Momley is a superhero, then most moms and dads are. We may not be able to define our super powers, but we sure can use them!