Definition of a super hero

Being a mom puts a whole new perspecitve on sooooo many things. Before I was a mom, I remember feeling overwhelmed. That would happen on days when I got in a nap and read a book for a while. Now, I laugh at myself. Naps are things for kids. They're the time I can get the floor mopped.

Lately, when I have a day I get all the housework done, I feel like I've accomplished the impossible. If, in one day, I vacuum, do the laundry, change the beds, mop the floor, take out the garbage, polish the counter, clean the bathrooms, and brush the dogs, I feel like I have earned some sort of award.

I've had days at work where I helped save a life. I've had days where I've been part of the birth process. I have had some pretty amazing adventures and travels.

But a day where I get a bunch of housework done makes me realize that when I was growing up, it was just expected that my mother would do all the housework, make dinner, take care of us kids, and work.

I'm not trying to down-play saving a life. But usually when you're saving a life, people let you focus on that. Kids never let you focus on anything. Turn your back to vacuum a room and they will find a way to endanger their own lives.

Mothers are multitaskers. Period. And my mother did it without the community we have now through the internet. She was trying to keep my brother and me from somehow destroying ourselves while keeping the house together and fighting on the frontlines of the gender equality war. I don't think she saw it that way.

My mother just saw that she was taking care of what needed to be done. But isn't that what makes a super hero? A dose of humility?

I think people sometimes wonder how I can depend so much on my mom when I'm an adult woman. Frankly, I'm just trying to get a little advice. She knows how to do it all. How do I do it? And then, there are some days when I just need her to come save me. I'm going down for the third time. If anyone can save me, it's my mom. After all, she's a super hero.