SUPERWOMAN? Sadly, not I.

A friend sent me this as a fun email today and it made me stop and think for a second. Although I certainly do not do all this AND can, thankfully, say that I have a husband who is more-than helpful in many of these areas, I have somewhat been feeling lately that I've been letting the whole clan down on the supermom job. I'm mad at myself for having so many needs in my own health, exercise, and nutrition department that take away from my ability to work (the money-making kind), spend time with Daisy, and/or get things done around the house. It's like a 3-legged stool that's always off balance.

This email, however, reminds me that it's largely unrealistic. None of us are supermommies. Ok, maybe some people get closer to the goal than others but, for most of us, we do what we can do. We strive for a balance of happy kid(s), good marriage, nice house, and some time to focus on ourselves. Some days we fail miserably and that just has to be ok. Continually setting ourselves the target of reaching the moon every day is just not realistic. I'll settle for making it upstairs to bed at night.

Enjoy...

THE NEXT SURVIVOR SERIES

Six married men will be dropped on an island with one car and 3 kids each for six weeks.

Each kid will play two sports and either take music or dance classes. There is no fast food. Each man must take care of his 3 kids; keep his assigned house clean, correct all homework, and complete science projects, cook, do laundry,and pay a list of 'pretend' bills with not enough money. In addition, each man will have to budget in moneyfor groceries each week.

Each man must remember the birthdays of all their friends and relatives,and send cards out on time--no emailing. Each man must alsotake each child to a doctor's appointment,a dentist appointment and a haircut appointment. He must makeone unscheduled and inconvenient visit per childto the Urgent Care.

He must also make cookies or cupcakes for a social function. Each man will be responsible for decorating his own assigned house, planting flowers outside and keeping it presentable at all times. The men will only have access to television when the kids are asleep and all chores are done.

The men must shave their legs, wear makeup daily, adorn himself with jewelry, wear uncomfortable yet stylish shoes, keep fingernails polished and eyebrows groomed. During one of the six weeks,the men will have to endure severe abdominal cramps, back aches,and have extreme, unexplained mood swings but never once complain or slow down from other duties.

They must attend weekly school meetings, church, and find timeat least once to spend the afternoonat the park or a similar setting.

They will need toread a book to the kids each night and in the morning, feed them, dress them, brush their teeth and comb their hair by 7:00 am.

A test will be given at the end of the six weeks, and each father will be required to know all of the following information:

each child's birthday,height, weight,shoe size, clothes size and doctor's name.Also the child's weight at birth, length, time of birth, and length of labor, each child's favorite color, middle name,f avorite snack, favorite song, favorite drink, favorite toy, biggest fear and what they want to be when they grow up.

The kids vote them off the island based on performance.The last man wins only if... he still has enough energy to be intimate with his spouse at a moment's notice.

If the last man does win, he can play the game over and over and over again for the next 18-25 years eventually earning the right To be called Mother!