Holy Super Santa, Batman!

I find myself wanting to be someone else from time to time. Someone with more talent. Someone with more organization skills. Someone with the super human ability to see the positive and be happy no matter the circumstance. Most of the time I feel like a simple, plain wife & mom named Mariah. Then I watch Mr. E and see that he is whoever he wants to be at any given time. It doesn't matter if no one wants to play Batman right now. He does it any way. He doesn't care if everyone else is playing Legos; he'll play Santa because that's what he wants to do.

Our house has affectionately been turned into the North Pole. My name is now Elfie (my elf name) and I get to help Santa. Of course Eli is Santa. The toys go in his 'sack' and then under the tree, back into the sack and then we start over. The reindeer are called and we go riding in our sled. By the way, as Santa [Eli] has informed me, Blitzen didn't want to be a reindeer anymore so now he's in the forest just being a deer. On another side note, while in our spare bedroom Eli [Santa] went to hide the sack of toys in the closet--and what did he behold? The little potty I so gleefully hid. Upon his discovery, Eli exclaims, 'see, I told you a fairy didn't come take my little potty! It's right there.' Luckily this Santa business is so much fun that he was able to move on and remove that from his memory. Phew!

Anwyay, this life in Eli's imagination is quite fun. I can be whoever I want to be--or at least whoever Eli wants me to be. I think I'm going to start living like this at large. I can be someone who has talent if I feel like it. It doesn't matter that a lot of situations would prove I'm an unorganized person, I will be an organized person. And it doesn't matter if everyone else's house is perfectly immaculate all the time--I'll be a little untidy because that's how I am.

I want to be more like my little man and be whoever the moment calls for. Sometimes we need a little Batman in our life. And we certainly all want a Santa. I think I'll work on being who I am because that's what I want & expanding my skills so that I can be whatever's needed at the moment. I've mastered the art of Elfie; I think it's now time to be a better dish fairy, a Polyanna or super fly lady. Life is too short to miss one opportunity. Now if I could just find my super suit; I'm not just Mariah.