Not Me! Monday

Welcome to Not Me! Monday!This blog carnival was created by Mckmama at My Charming Kids!Go check out her blog and see what everyone else has NOT been doing this week!

I did NOT have to go to the doctor again this week because my wrists were hurting so badly. I did NOT have to get some old lady SUPER stylist carpel tunnel braces for both of my wrist. I do NOT have to sleep in them every night. They do NOT make my wrists feel 400 times better. I did not tell my friend Mandy that I may have invest in some sexy lingerie to offset how SUPER unsexy the braces are.

I did NOT have an awesome time out with my friends Friday night!! I so did NOT need a Girl's Night Out, and we did NOT stay up until after 1 am just chit-chatting {and maybe gossiping a little}!

I was NOT excited when Henry's t-ball practice was cancelled Saturday because it was raining. I love sitting at the ball field watching 4, 5, and 6 years olds 'learn' how to play t-ball. So I would never be excited that practice was cancelled.

I did NOT stay home from church yesterday, because my oldest child did NOT wake up running a 102 temperature. We did NOT stay in the house all day, and we are NOT going to have to stay in the house all day today too. I am NOT getting cabin fever just from two days of being inside.

I do NOT have a ton of stuff to do around the house to make up for feeling so lousy last week. I am NOT going to be doing laundry and cleaning for HOURS today.

Have a SUPER week, and don't forget to go check out Not Me! Monday.

Saturday at the Park

Nap Time

Snow Cones

Close Up

Every mom...

...IS A SUPERMOM!

A few weeks ago, I {finally} let my husband check out my blog. I really respect his opinion, so I had been sort of {but not really} hiding my blog from him. I just hadn’t shared my blog with him, mainly because I thought he might think it was silly or a waste of time {So, this is why the dishes aren’t done!}.

When I finally showed it to him, I anxiously waited for his response.

All he said was “You think you are a supermom?”.

Now, I don’t think he meant for it to sound rude {at least I hope he didn’t, though he does really know me and all my faults and flaws}. But it did make me think.

Is it a little pretentious of me to call myself a SUPERMOM? I don’t mean for it to come off that way, but I guess some people could take it that way….

The thing is, I don’t think I am the one and only SUPERMOM. Actually I think there are a ton of SUPERMOMS out there. There are probably more than I could ever imagine, and blogging has helped me discover a bunch of really fantastic SUPERMOMS who are also wives, sister, and friends.

The day after I showed Jason my blog, I got a parenting magazine in the mail.

The front cover said:
“it’s a bird, it’s
a plane, it’s…you!!
why every
mom is a
superhero”

I thought “WOW! This is just what I need!” An article that tells me why every mom {including me} is a SUPERMOM! And guess what the title of the article is….”I AM SUPERMOM”

That’s right.

Paula Spencer {the SUPERMOM who wrote the article} apparently thinks very much like me, because she thinks that mothering is what gives us these wonderful superpowers that make all us mothers: SUPERMOMS.

The article talks about the five heroic traits you didn’t know you had-until you had a child.

SUPER COURAGE
SUPER FEROCITY
SUPER STRENGTH
SUPER PRESENCE OF MIND
SUPERSTRONG STOMACH

This was great reminder that I am not at all being pretentious when I call myself a SUPERMOM, because we are all SUPERMOMS!!

Go check out the whole article on the Parenting website!