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Although my mom passed decades ago, I still spend each Mother’s Day thinking about her, and all the wonderful things and lessons about living good, respectable lives, that she poured into her children as we grew up. She had the most amazing sense of wisdom and humor (a lot of it I did not realize until I had children.)

Along with her great sense of humor, she also had the most amazing superpowers. My mom had the most awesome human anatomy. She would constantly warn us that she ‘had eyes in the back and sides of her head.’ That was a warning to us to let us know she saw everything we did. I would often ask her if I could comb her hair because I wanted to see those eyes. I would comb her hair, and I never saw the eyes, but she reassured me there were there. I did however become a believer that she did, when one day I had misbehaved and she told me to clean the entire kitchen by myself, (a job that was shared with my two sisters) as punishment. I turned away from her and rolled my eyes. Immediately I felt her pain on my backside. “Don’t you ever roll your eyes at me. I saw that!” she yelled. How? I wondered, my back was turned to her. It was years later she told me her secret. We had several large mirrors in our house. That particular day, she was looking in one of the mirrors as I walked off and she saw me roll my eyes.

My mom also had other great superpowers. She taught me the ‘power of prayer.’ She warned me “you better pray you don’t get a failing grade on that book report because I told you three times to re-do it!”

She taught me the power of her parental rights. She’d say, “I brought you in this world and I will take you out!”
Then, there was her ‘power of time travel.’ “Let me find out you acted up in school and I’m gonna knock you into next week.” Or she would showcase the ‘power of anticipation’ by saying ” I told you about acting up in school, just wait till I get you home!”
She also had the ‘power of possibly predicting my future.’ She’d tell me “by the time you get off this punishment, you’ll be old enough to collect Social Security.”

She also had great ways of telling us the ‘power of her proverbs’ by saying “the cow will need its tail again when fly time comes” or “you will never miss the water till the well runs dry.”

Oh, how well has life illustrated so many of the things my mom’s superpowers and all the things she said. And guess what…..a lot of what my mom taught me, I passed on to my children, including my mom’s great sense of humor.