Super Powers

It seems that every few months we get an illness in the house.  I guess it's from the fact that we leave the house and touch things.  I guess we have to keep doing this, although lately I am against it.  This time it was a short but nasty stomach bug.  Every time an illness enters the house we have the same conversation, it goes something like this...

Me: I'm tired.
My husband: Aren't you always tired?
Me: Yes, but now I think I'm ill too.
My husband: Hmm, but can you take care of the little one who is also ill?
Me: Can you help?
My husband: Yes, until there is a mess, I don't have mutant powers to clean up sick messes without also becoming sick.  You are Wonder-Cleaning Woman.
Me: Not the super power I would have chosen if I could have chosen a super power.

Luckily this time there were only two little ones making messes at any given time so it was easier to keep things clean than if three or four had been making the messes.  It also helped a lot that my husband, who was also ill, helped watch the smallest all day so that I could make sure the rest got where they needed to go.  While I was cleaning the house at midnight I thought about some super-powers I would rather have...

1. Elasta-girl, you know you all want this one.  So that when I'm sitting on the couch with a crying child I can still reach the ice pack in the freezer, the band-aides, or my caffeine.

2. Time freezing power.  Imagine how clean I could make the house if they would just stop for a minute or thirty.

3. Teleportation, not necessarily of myself, although that would be cool too, but of stuff.  Imagine you are somewhere and your child says those words "I forgot my..." Poof!! There it is, yeah Mommy!  I'm thinking that would rock.

4. Mind reading.  Limited of course, there are many people that I interact with and I just don't want to know what they are thinking.  My children on the other hand, I want to know what they are thinking before they do something ridiculous.  That way maybe I can do a better job of stopping messes before they occur.

5.  Super-human strength.  I'm thinking of those times when I really only want to make one trip in from the car but I have two sleeping children and four gallons of milk to bring in.  If I had super-human strength I could just make one trip and get in bed so much sooner.

Happy super-power dreaming.  Which one do you want?