What is it about being a mom that gives you superhuman powers & the ability to take care of everyone & everything else but when it comes to yourself it's a no go?  How often do we tuck our little ones or our significant other into bed with a box of tissues, medicine and a cool drink only to trudge through another day of housework, mom-work & obligations while being miserably sick ourselves. We admonish those who feel all better and want to get out of bed to play but can't seem to put ourselves to rest without a serious trip to guilty town. We know, don't we, since we tell everyone else, that if you will only rest for a day or two you will get better much more quickly & be able to resume normal activities, but why does this not apply to us? I'll tell you, because when we are sick our dear husbands still have to go to work & our precious children still have to go to school, do homework, be fed & run around town to thier multiple activites. Why hasn't someone invented a back up wife? No matter the cost it would be well worth it, then again I guess nannies have been around for a while. Maybe if I start my own Nanny Service I might be able to stay in bed when I'm sick, but I guess we all know that's not going to happen. No matter how miserable you are or how many boxes of tissue or bottles of cold medicine you go through, the kids still need to be fed, the laundry still needs to be done & the spilled milk still needs to be mopped up. Here's to motherhood, the most exhausting yet rewarding thing a woman will ever do, or keep doing since it never ends! But we wouldn't have it any other way would we?