First Person Friday: Im my own superhero.

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Subtitle: May we, for today, pretend the above photo is kickASS, high rez & one can entirely read what it says on the tank? Thx.

Id make the excuse this is a scattered random post because my parents are here visiting—but it’s mainly because it’s how my mind is working right now.

First: The Great Tattoo Reveal went pretty ok last weekend.

Out of respect (because, while I jest, that’s truly how I roll) I wore a long sundress for the initial parental encounter.

I figured there was no need to be all Nike tempo track shorts in their face about it right off the bat since we had 13 days together (& I knew I couldnt keep up the long dress thing for more than a day or so).

Pretty quickly though, more out of excitement to share than anything else, I hiked up my dress a little & showed ‘Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are?’

And then I hiked up the dress a lot (if youve seen my leg in real life you know how much alotalot I mean) & showed them Ren Man’s fave: Horton.

And really they didnt have too much to say.

I adore that they didnt feel the need to pretend to like!it!lots!really! & appreciate the fact that they didn’t say they were ‘disappointed’ either.

I tried to put myself in their shoes and, in all honesty, I can’t say what I would feel if the Tornado ever decided to get body art.

As much as I love ink on myself—-when I look at her beautiful body the very thought of her altering it in the slightest makes me a little sad (Hello pot. It’s the kettle calling! You’re black.).

In short: their reaction was perfect & perfectly unexpected.

In a sense I felt as though they truly recognized me as an adult.  They acknowledged I was capable of making decisions they might not make themselves but that *that fact* didnt make the decisions wrong.

Onward.

What one real thought do I have for you today?

A story.

One which I know doesn’t hold much weight now (as Im MizFit enough to realize at this point she’s merely parroting what she’s heard) but one which I pray is indicative of whom the Tornado will grow to be.

This weekend the Tornado ran around the park with a towel tucked into the back of her shirt.

She climbed, swung, jumped, ran, skipped, rolled, & cheered (herself on).

One of the fathers approached her, touched the towel and asked if it were her cape.

After she nodded he inquired if she were Super Girl.

She said no.

He asked if she were Superman.

She shook her head.

He ran thru a litany of superheroes (some of whom Id never heard) & the Tornado stubbornly informed him each time that was not whom she was.

When he finally asked her:  What superhero are you then?

She exclaimed “Im my own superhero!!!” & ran off to play.

As members of my tribe say: I KVELLED.

And then I prayed.

I prayed that this seemingly insignificant exchange might be the spark which ignites the flame of her truly believing she is her own superhero.

The start of the realization that everything she needs already exists within her &  merely awaits her discovery.

Even on my worst days I believe I am my own superhero if only by virtue of the fact that I find it within myself to keep on keepin’ on.

And on my best day? I KNOW Im my own damn superhero because I know I can move mountains.

I know there’s nothing I cant do if I try (you know, due to my superhero status) and Im not afraid to try.

And you?

Please to indulge me.  Please to compliment yourself.

How have you acted as your own superhero lately?

What have you done which even *you* almost weren’t certain you could?

Or, if you dare say you’ve NOT been your own superhero as of late, how will you make time & effort this weekend to don a virtual cape ?

Please to hit us all up in the comments.

and yeah. I SO WISH I had a cape to give away. please to imagine.

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Comments

  1. Sporting my “geeky” side today: I used to have a t-shirt that said “Not All Heroes Wears Tights and a Cape”… and then there was a picture of a pocket protector…

    I know…geekville, right! (I don’t wear it anymore…)

    The point, though – a superhero is many things – not just the guy (or gal) who makes a flamboyant rescue.

    Sometimes (always?) the superhero act is doing the “right thing”… and no two people’s “right thing’s” have to be the same. If it comes from the heart, and we’re listening to that – then there’s a whole bunch of superhero in everyone of us when do this.

    Rock on, Miz – you and your whole superhero family!

  2. This weekend I will be my own superhero and go to the POOL with my boys and not wear a teeshirt over my bathing suit.

  3. Aww what a fab kid you have and what a great job you are both doing as parents!!

    I think I am my own superhero because of all the new exercise I’m doing these days. I’m mainly doing it on my own when it would be very easy to give up and not bother but I know I won’t. I know how much stronger and fitter its making me and I’m proud of myself for getting this far but aim to keep on going!

  4. What a cools story (and great high resolution picture :)).

    In a thought I may only ever share with the blogworld I am my own superhero because I get up and go to my job every day in for my family and hope someday to be able to work my passion.

  5. Great post. “I am my own superhero”. What a great gift to give to your child. Awesome.

    I so want that Tshirt. I’m getting that Tshirt.

  6. I love kids and I wish I could have seen the look on the man’s face AFTER she said that.

    Did he laugh?

    I think too often we adults laugh at what emerges from childrens mouthes when we should be learning! 🙂

  8. Glad the reveal went ok. So cute that your dirty yelled that! She seems like such a cool little lady! You’ve done a great job 🙂 Hmm….the only super hero like activity I’ve done is get all of my chores done before the weekend haha. Does that count? Can I be Cleaning/Laundry/Ironing Woman?

  9. I saw your tweet this week about your mom not being able to look away from your leg (you paralleled it to a car wreck).

    That made me laugh.

    Glad it all went well.

    I need to be more of a superhero in my own life.

  10. alas my superhero decided to be awake last night from 11-230.

    I’m now praying her superhero power is the ability to be fraught with joy on little sleep!

    and Tammy? Still happening.
    My poor mom keeps sneaking lingering glances at the Seussian Monstrosity 😉

  12. I know you are being more lightheard here yet I do know for myself if I learned to look inward for strength and not outward for VALIDATION at a younger age I wouldn’t be where I am now.

    STUCK.

    Good life lesson for us old people 😉 too.

  13. It’s amazing the depth of knowledge and wisdom that kids can come up with. It often makes me wonder what happens as we age that we totally forget and throw away these nuggets of information and start to live our lives in the ‘norm’. Great post!

  14. That story is one you will have to tell your daughter for years to come.

    My superhero feat for the day was getting out of bed. 🙂 While I normally do not struggle with this, the extra long day yesterday, and extra late night last night, caused 5:30 to seem incredibly early today.

    Great post, as always.

  19. @ Irene how did you get that shirt? Miz?

    I needed this reminder as my first 5K is this weekend!!!

    Go Superhero Lisa!

  20. I think, we are all our own super hero whenever we do something we thought we couldnt do. regardless of how small and trivial it may seem.

    and yes, you must share where you got that shirt from! i want one… stompingmyfeet…

    have a great weekend MizFit!

  21. I will be my own superhero this weekend by attempting a goal I HOPE I can complete.

    I’ll be back Monday to let you know if I did it.

    Thanks for all you do, Miz.

  22. This weekend I have another family event with food – my brother-in-law’s 50th birthday. So much food. I will once again work hard to make good choices.

    About your tattoos, how do you reconcile that with your religion? Do you think your parents have problems from a religious aspect?

  23. love love love this post. i think that, in the end, we need to be happy with who we are. and that IS a superheroic effort. Happy weekend Miz 🙂

  24. GREAT QUESTION Amy.

    About your tattoos, how do you reconcile that with your religion? Do you think your parents have problems from a religious aspect?

    Ive read the old testament and talked to my rabbi and have reconciled it FOR ME.

    I did ask my parents (mom) once if that was her conflict with it (as I think then id never ever reveal them in her presence out of respect) and her answer was no.

    For her its the generational thing.

    the old school notion of tattoos being more a pirate 🙂 sailor and construction worker ‘thing’

    just not something ‘nice girls’ do.

    (& since Im not orthodox/married a JewByChoice there were no plans to be buried in an orthodox cemetery anyway)

  25. We need the Tornado to do a guest post!

    We’ve had Ren Man so isn’t it her turn? 🙂

    Have a good weekend.

    Where is the tank from?

  26. I’ve been having trouble with being my own superhero, because I feel like nothing I do turns out right. But I’m just going to keep plugging away and hope things work out.


  27. For me, Tricia, SO MUCH of the superheronessment is in the constant attempt.

    the picking myself back up and reversing and re-approaching and giving whatever it is ONE!MORE!TRY!

    Perhaps our superpower could be resiliency?

  28. I fixed my brothers resume with a stroke (ok several) of my keyboard! I scoured job postings for a jobs that would fit him and used my super power (nagging) to get him to the apply! He got a job! (He’s an autoworker who took the buyout and then couldn’t find a job for 2 years). *shines manicure on lapel*

    On a serious note – a tattoo on a Jew…I think it’s important to take it back, but I can see how there would be issues. On a less serious note – I would have a hard time looking at you just because the lack of symmetry. I’d have to get out the markers…

  29. ok first, HOW CUTE ARE YOU UP THERE???? I love it!
    I’m glad you had a pretty ok reaction to the art; my parents would not have been quite so gracious (their inner monologue comes out whether or not they want it to at the time). I love the art however, and have some myself which was always met with some crazy reaction. LOL

    I have to think about the superhero thing. I guess with each fitness event I try and actually finish, that is when i feel like a superhero, like i can finish anything. it’s given me the confidence in other areas of my life to give more of myself without fear of failure.

    my son? he’s his own superhero in the form of a toddler fireman. loves to “save people”, loves to wear his hat and uniform 24/7 and instead of whining about “can’t do it!” he now proclaims “I KNEW i could do it!”

    I’d like to think I had something to do with it and I pray real hard that he keeps and nourishes this inner confidence and fire he has about him *pun wasn’t intended but works totally*. Happy Friday Miz!

    Hope you get a nap!

  30. That post is one of my most favorites ever. Beautiful story about parental unit acceptance of adult children. Beautiful story of tornado letting that man know what she already knows inside.

    I first started to believe that I was my own superhero the day I finally realized that I didn’t need to do things to meet my parents approval any longer. Of course, I was already in my late 40s I think. But still, better late than never.

    Beautiful, motivating post, and writing too.

  31. Oh, I all teared up then – I LOVE Tornado!

    Hmmmm, I already feel a superhero achieving what I have so far, but will feel even more superheroish when I attempt some of the more scary things on my goals list. OK, OK, you MADE me, I shall get the ball rolling on one this afternoon.

    Did I tell you how much I LOVE Tornado?

  32. I love this topic. And that it keeps coming up. I want my kidlets to see themselves in a positive light as they head into their teens. Keeping a couple of “superpowers” in mind should go a long way to helping them get through the awkward years.

    MizFit – if you haven’t heard it, find “Mighty Little Man” by Steve Burns (Yes, the Blue’s Clues Steve). When my younger son was the tornado’s age, he used to run around the house with his arms over his head, doing victory laps when the song would crop up in the playlist. DD wasn’t walking yet, but would wave her arms around and “sing” when he’d pass her.

    Way to go, Marianne! Not sure super-nagging is the way to go for labeling powers, though. How’s about supermentor, with the ability to encourage others to leap tall buildings?

  33. I love this post! Glad the reveals with your parents went OK too.

    I definitely need to consider a superhero act. Well, besides surviving 3 kids until school starts next week – that is definitely an act of super powers on some days.

    You always write something that inspires me to think! Now, just to move it, move it!!!

  34. Unfortunately, I HAVEN’T been much of a superhero of any kind lately! Marathon training is getting the best of me, and I’ve forgotten what I am **really** capable of doing. I haven’t completed the mileage of any of my long runs (or even really come close) since I began training.

    Tomorrow, I’ve vowed to do the best that I can do. This includes waking up early enough to beat the heat so that I am physically able to do the best that I can do. Sometimes, we are our own worst villain!

  35. That was a great story – about TT telling a guy that she’s her own superhero! Love it…I hope she continues to believe it too 🙂

  36. Can I just say how much I am loving these Friday posts?

    Glad to hear the tattoo reveal went well, and I so love the Tornado superhero story.

    Good timing, because I’m feeling in need of inspiration of late. Seem to be slipping too much into “what do other people think of me” mode. And superheroes so don’t give a crap what other people think!

  38. For some reason, I have been ConfidenceGirl this week and managed to pull out a couple of blog posts that I am really proud of.

    LOVE the tank and the Tornado!! And I love what Kim said earlier: “if I learned to look inward for strength and not outward for VALIDATION at a younger age I wouldn’t be where I am now.” True dat.

  39. My daughter leaves for college this weekend (it goes fast, Miz. Enjoy it) I’d love to get her a tanktop like that as a reminder.

    We all need reminding every now and then.

  40. I fall and pick myself back up … again and again but when I can’t …
    I’ve learned to let other SuperHeroes help me up so they feel SuperHero-ish too.
    I used to not let anyone help and that’s not good either.

    why do we forget what we know?
    the world is too noisy sometimes with the “You can’ts” & “You shouldn’ts” & “That’s impossible’s” …

  41. DAMN you are all filled with some early morning wizdom today.

    (Well, its early am here anyway)

    I love it.

  42. I love both stories!

    I’m so glad that your parents’ reaction was not negative. I love that they can accept your decisions and see you as an adult even though your decisions may not be right for them. I think this is something to remember as we are raising our own kids! And it’s not that easy to do… I’ll make sure to remember this story often!

    I’m so proud of the little Tornado!!! You are doing an awesome job! My own superhero??? I can honestly say I’m getting better at that one… Love your tank top!

  45. I am my own superhero–I can make lunches, and send my son off to preschool, and survive waiting for my daughter to come home without marching across the continents, swooping her up, and marching home with her. I can let myself have a slightly messy house.

  46. I want one of those tanks and I want to find the Tornado one of those tees which says My mom’s tattoos are cooler than your mom’s!
    😉

  50. I have a bracelet I’ve worn daily for about 10 years…it says “Infinite Potential”. It is my daily reminder that I can do whatever I set my mind to because I HAVE infinite potential!

    My superhero moment this week? I beat my personal best time on one of my weekly bike rides! Two weeks ago I rode this particular loop and met my previous personal best 1 hour 9 minutes. This week, with the help of a riding partner, I rode the same loop in 1 hour 1 minute and 42 seconds! Yay me! I really DID feel like I was flying 🙂

    katschi…that was a hard lesson for me to learn, the power of letting others help, but it is an excellent lesson. Thanks for the reminder.

  52. I am indeed a superhero. J teases me whenever we do home renos and yard work…I’m always the one covered in dust and paint and loving every moment of it…
    It is then that I reveal my secret identity -Uberfrau!

    Hee hee.

    I love how your parent reacted to the tattoo. I know I was a little concerned to show my parents my belly piercing (they’re quite reserved)…after all my fuss and worry the only comment they had for me was a sarcastic “wel there’s a useful thing to have!”. As long as I liked it they didn’t dare…Dad still grins and shakes his head when I’m in a bathing suit and he sees it …:)

  53. How have you acted as your own superhero lately?

    I am taking today OFF! No work so that I can relax. I wrote today’s post for all the “fun” I’m going to try and have that doesn’t involve work. I needed a break.

    What have you done which even *you* almost weren’t certain you could?

    I became a pastor. I had just finished my first year teaching high school spanish and began to look into ministry as a career that I had been fighting since I was 16 since I thought I couldn’t do it.

    Or, if you dare say you’ve NOT been your own superhero as of late, how will you make time & effort this weekend to don a virtual cape ?

    Before today I wasn’t. So today I’m OFF and I’m going to get my runs in all 3 days this weekend because that is something I do for ME!

  54. This is the best story I’ve ever heard, I love it! The Tornado seems to have a great head on her wee-one shoulders!!! That speaks volumes. I’d be kvelling, too!

  56. Why is it that most of us seem to have all that wisdom as children, and it returns to us later in life, but in between…. not so much! (Hmmm, hormones? Ya think??)

    My superhuman abilities came to the forefront yesterday in house-cleaning, laundry mode. I had the daunting task of making my bedroom look like a hotel room/movie star’s dressing room, whilst doing a month’s worth of laundry for hubby’s buddy who is getting divorced and living in his holiday trailer!
    (A friend is getting married tomorrow and using my bedroom as a “staging area” for herself and her 6 attendants….)

  57. Such a sweetheart! I think the Tornado just became all of our idols…

    I’m my own superhero because I’m actively working to where I want to be: writing, saving up to move to Spain, cooking up a healthy storm, spending time with people I really love. I’m my own superhero because I’m trying and I think succeeding to show one of my best friends (who is very depressed right now) that SHE is her own superhero, and that it’s okay to need help sometimes. Even superheros have friends and sidekicks to assist them in their duties, after all.

  58. MAN I LOVE YOU GUYS.

    Deb? try paper towel tucked into the back of your shirt. TOTALLY WORKS in an “around the domicile superhero’ing’ pinch.

  60. I’m still dwelling on the finishing school and getting a job part of the summer. That makes me my own superhero for now!

    Miz, if you really want a cape, I would be more than happy to sew one for you. I’m hoping to make some new ones for my nephew for Christmas this year (he’s 4) and think one with a big W (for his own name) would be perfect!

  61. What makes me feel like a superhero lately is finishing a particularly challenging workout – I am so proud of myself, it’s funny, considering other people do this all the time!

    I am so intrigued that your parents don’t read this blog nor (I’m guessing) the other places that you write…do you not want them to (keeping some things private) or are they just not interested (which I can’t imagine would be the case)? As a parent, I would be all over (and proud as all getout) of my kid if they were being such a fantastic role model as you are!

  62. Okay first of all I want to say, “You are the coolest person!” I love your attitude about your parents and your tattoo (and I thought the comment about the pot calling the kettle black with your daughter was so funny) as well as your pride in your daughter. Your daughter is truly blessed to have you as a mom!

    My way of being a superhero was enduring an MRI on both knees last Friday with a minimal amount of anxiety. I abhor closed spaces, and I dealt with a few seconds of anxiety at the beginning of the MRI, but then I breathed, prayed, and told myself that there was no way I would tolerate the 40 minutes for both knees if I freaked out. And I managed to survive the whole thing with minimal stress. So that is my great achievement. (Funny how something little like that is so big for me–when I have endured far worse things and when I have situations at my job that many would consider more stressful!)

  63. Thanks, your post made me teary.

    I’ve struggled with self-confidence all my life, from crying curled up in a bookshelf in Kindergarten to slinking away in tears at some random stranger’s thoughtless comment as an adult. I’m working on it, getting better.

    Today I am being my own superhero by going to the dermatologist for a mole check, as much as I DO NOT want to do this. I have to take care of ME.

  65. I don’t know if this falls into the superhero category but for me it’s working out and never complaining about it.

  67. OH, how I LOVED this post today! Great story about the Tornado (your prayer is mine, for mine and yours and all our young ones). And I got to learn a new Yiddish word! And all of the comments! I sure needed that this week. Sometimes the time we are most super-heroic is when we keep going, even though we feel the *least* super-heroic. (I find that’s true for myself, anyway…or maybe that’s just the endorphins from the run I did NOT want to do this morning kicking in. Kudos to my super-hero husband for lending me his phone so I could listen to pirate music to be more inspired during my run today.)

    Oh, and I couldn’t help but ask, speaking of being-one’s-own-superhero, have you seen the movie Mystery Men? (Somehow, I think I know the answer to that.) ID TOTALLY FORGOTTEN THAT MOVIE! Need to rewatch that one…

    THANKS FOR THIS TOO:

    Lastly, I found a web page with instructions for making one’s own superhero cape out of an old t-shirt (using only the power of recycling and scissors-just no running with the scissors, okay, Mighty Bumbling Band?). Here’s the link:
    http://www.inhabitots.com/2008/10/22/the-six-minute-superhero-cape/

    (And no, I will not be making a cape from my recently purchased “Unapologetically Myself” t-shirt for a long, long time.)

  68. I love the idea of donning a virtual cape and wearing it through my weekend.

    I need to do that more often.

  71. I so want one of those shirts.

    I hope the Tornado never lets go of that strength. And with a mother as fearless and loving as you, I don’t doubt she will hold on to that.

  72. Beautifully written. I especially like what you said about the Tornado and how you hope she sees her own potential.

    I had to be a mom and a dad to my son from age two on. I never thought I could do that and yet – I did it. I never remarried because I had been a step-child as a kid and it never felt right. Not that I was Supermom, but I was DevotedMom and at the end of the day, that was all I had to be.

  73. I found the tank top:

    were you hiding it from us? 🙂

    Not hiding so much as this wasnt about that…if that makes any sense?

  74. Tell me, Miz, where *did* you get your strength and confidence from? Was it yours from childhood? Instilled by parents? Or did you find it somewhere else?

  75. I loved it when my children were younger and my son would head to the shops in his complete Superman outfit and my daughter in fairy outfit with wings. Both of them would ‘fly’ into the shops! I always found it so gorgeous and there were times I wished I could do it to. 🙂 Perhaps I can …

  76. I just am speechless in a way! First, I just want to say that I love your parents reaction & your comments to it! My parents, god bless their souls, were pretty liberal so I do think they would have got a real kick out of your tattoos if they were on me!

    As for Tornado, I JUST DON’T KNOW HOW BETTER TO PUT INTO WORDS MY FEELINGS BUT TO CAPITALIZE THEM! I ACTUALLY TEARED UP & CRIED NOT ONLY FOR HOW WONDERFUL THAT WAS BUT FOR YOU MAKING HER FEEL THAT WAY. THAT YOU ARE TEACHING HER TO LOVE HERSELF EARLY! How important is that.. VERY!

    I wish I had learned some of this when I was young. I really did not grow up with self-esteem so what you are doing is so great!

    That little Tornado is AMAZING! I think I am going to tell your story to everyone I meet! I went to see if you had t-shirts with that saying for kids on them but I see just adults. I think I would have bought them for my grandkids!!!!

    Carla, I can’t say enough how amazing you are & you really are a role model to me!

    As for being my own superhero, I can’t say beyond pushing myself in some new moves at the gym. “Real life”, not so much….

    How will I do “superhero”. I am visiting with a friend who’s mom has cancer. I am going to listen for her. I have way too much experience with this in my family BUT sometimes you just have to listen & be there for a friend & that is what I am going to do… try to be a good listener & shoulder for her.

    emailing you privately but so many people have emailed me about tees for kids today. (um DUH 🙂 I laugh that the Tornado will wear my tank as a tank dress. it’s how we roll here) Ill have a few up next week.

  77. Miz, the reason that I was ‘my own superhero’ and have done way more and different than I ever would have is because I had a mother who told me ‘You can do WHATEVER you want to do’ in this world, and she actually believed that when she told it to me. I don’t ever remember consciously telling myself that when I started a new venture, but I think it is there, very deeply ingrained into the core of me.

    And you, Miz, are doing that for your daughter.

  78. I love so much about this post! I am my own superhero today because I not only beat, but smashed my best mile time ever this morning. And the second best time? Yeah, I was 13.

    I’m glad your parents reacted well to the tattoo. I thought someday my parents would treat me like an adult, but I realized if they don’t at 30, they never will. Ok, ok, they are better than they could be, but sheesh, the nagging about the littlest things. Though, I guess that’s a compliment. If they’re nagging about the tiny things, they are happy with the good things, and I’m living a good life in their eyes. Right?

  79. I’m feeling all superhero-ish lately for embracing the job loss as an opportunity and rolling with it. Scared? Yes. Still doing it anyway? Yes. Loving every minute of it? Abso-freaking-lutely! 🙂

    Have a fantastic weekend!

  80. Love the story about the tattoo reveal. My husband and I both have tats and I remember his parents’ first sight of his (after nearly TWENTY years of having it!). They were indifferent. My parents don’t love mine either but oh well. They don’t say anything and that’s just fine with me. I always wonder how I would feel if my girls decided to get one. I don’t even want to pierce their ears for fear of “altering” them … *sigh*

    Love the yiddish BTW. I am a gentile raised by a Jewish dad (my stepdad officially but real dad by heart). Yiddish has been part of my vocabulary since I was five. My Dad’s nickname and my Grandma’s (his Mom) for me was (and still is at times) Mish (short for Mishmosh lol).

    Ok, I don’t feel like a superhero most days but I did feel like a SuperMama this summer. My 6yo started first grade yesterday and on the eve of the first day, I realized I made it through the *entire summer* with all three kids, all day long, on my own. I didn’t know how I would do to be honest but we had a great time! I don’t know if I am becoming a more competent multi-tasker or the kids are just getting easier but regardless, we made it through … 🙂

  82. GREAT POST.

    Comment number 76: I want to get a shirt for me and my daughter.

    Where did you get yours? Are you selling them?
    Can you tell I’m confused? 🙂

  83. Not only are you an amazing mother, but you are an amazing role model to your daughter and women as well!

    Thank you for sharing this beautiful story with us. It truly made my morning. Even if it did leave me a little teary-eyed.

    I love your confidence, Miz and hope one day to find the same confidence in myself. I wouldn’t call myself my own Superhero yet, but I am definitely in Superhero training right now. 🙂

  84. I got a belly button ring about 8 years ago when my friend Suzanne and I were training for a triathlon. My parents don’t know as far as I know, even though we’ve gone on several family beach vacation since. I don’t flaunt it, but I love it. It makes me feel like a bit of a rebel even though it’s not all that extreme. So, I can relate and appreciate your tat reveal story. My parents would probably have the same reaction.

    I haven’t had any superhero moments lately. I need to work on that. I have plenty of wind (aka support) beneath my cape right now, so that’s keeping me afloat. Thank goodness for the super-power of friendship.

  86. Out of the mouth of babes, as they say!

    I truly believe that you have to believe in yourself first, and being your own super hero IS all about that!

  88. Damn, Woman you’re fast. I just created those this morning and ordered that same red & white for the Tornado.

    even though I know the WHITE will last about 3 seconds 🙂

    let’s call it brown and red—shall we?

  89. Best part is just reading all the comments. We are really a bunch of pretty awesome people, aren’t we?

    The true gift is the realization that EVERY SINGLE PERSON is valuable, unique, and worthy of the title “Superhero.”

    You know where the best place to see it is? Hang out at the finish line of a triathlon at the very end, when all of the people are coming across who are inexperienced, slow, or who just had a bad day. Watch their tired faces light up when they realize they’re about to finish this monumental thing. Listen to the cheers and the applause from the crowd in recognition of this person’s phenomenal accomplishment.

    The superheroes aren’t the ones who finish first; they’re the ones who finish last.

  91. Love your site and enjoy the emails I get from you on up-dated posts! So far I’ve been a bit of a lurker but need to comment on this post!
    I love that idea-we all need to be proud of who we are!
    you are strong and powerful-that I admire!!

    PS-love the tee

  92. I’m my own superhero when I speak up for myself! A lot of times I just want to say “yes” to everything, but then I may end up taking on too much and feeling overwhelmed. It’s important to speak up sometimes and say “you know, I can’t give my 100% on this project right now — but maybe in a couple weeks?” Oftentimes, people are willing to compromise!

  93. This reminds me of a Jerry Jeff Walker song called “The Cape.” The chorus:

    ‘Cause he’s one of those who knows his life
    Is just a leap of faith.
    Gotta’ spread your arms and hold your breath
    And always trust your cape.

    I CANT BELIEVE IVE NEVER HEAD THIS SONG! (tho in a way I can…just think I “should have” since Ive been in TX for 8 yrs :))

  94. That’s a keeper story of your little one’s childhood. remember it when she becomes and F5 during the teenage years! She is what she learned from her parents! It’s all getting in there!
    Good parenting job!

    As far as being my own superhero-I am Superweightloss woman! I have overcome tall sundaes and wide cheeseburgers and can run faster than a speeding pizza delivery car!

    yeah! I will continue to be Superweightloss woman to battle the evil Dr. Extrapoundage!

    Thanks!

  95. Whoa–93 comments later…I’m getting back to reading my fave bloggers and glad you’re still at it, Miz! I intend to become my own superhero and pull myself up from a weight loss plateau that became a gain-back, and get myself back on track now that the kids will be in school. I vow that next summer, I won’t let all my hard work go to waste (or waist would be more like it) just because our schedules change and we’re on “summer time.”

  96. That is the sweetest story I have ever heard! I love her answer. It says a lot about what you have taughter her!

    I haven’t always followed your blog, how many tattoos do you actually have? Can you direct me to some posts where you talk about them more? Just curious 🙂

    Hope you’re having a great weekend. Off to save the world 😉

    hmmm. I dont think Ive ever posted about any others! I fear boring all my readers to death 🙂 perhaps I shall next week on Navel Gazing Friday

  98. the Tornado makes my heart smile!

    this wknd in particular i told my boy something that was on my heart but hard to articulate and ended up being pleasantly surprised by his response…

    but really every day i go to work in a school in the worst district in our nation in a not so great area trying to make an impact… i feel pretty great about that too 🙂

  99. I think if I had asked that question and gotten that response, I would have cried right then and there, that’s wonderful. I walked 3.5 miles today instead of 3.

  100. Still searching for my cape, but slowly coming to the realization that it is okay to close a chapter of life and welcome a new chapter. And realizing that even as I get ready to start a new chapter, the previous ones are still part of my life story, so I’m not throwing away any lessons learned or character built, merely taking them with me to help me in future experiences.

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