Introduction - A Family of Super Heros

Allow me to introduce myself and my family. I am Wonder Woman, my husband is Superman/Clark Kent, and we have two children whose superhero identities are undetermined at the moment.

A little about me, Wonder Woman. To be perfectly honest, I cannot remember anything about her characteristics in the shows. I just remember she was my childhood hero, I loved her cool outfit, and she kicked butt. My super powers are love, being level-headed, creativity, planning, common-sense, passion and compassion, counselor, taking charge, and running the world (at least my world) even when I do not want this responsibility. I do not believe my powers come from me, I believe they are gifts from God given to me for a purpose. I know that part of my ultimate purpose is to be the wife and mother that God wants me to be. The rest of my purpose is something that has been coming in stages or, rather, in seasons in my life. I've been many things to/for many people and now I am searching for the rest of my ultimate purpose. Maybe for me that is to remain ever-changing to meet the needs of the world around me. If so, I think that would be another super power.

Now meet my husband of thirteen years, Superman/Clark Kent. I always wanted Wonder Woman and Superman to be married so this works out perfectly! As Clark Kent, my husband is a mild mannered guy, pretty passive, easy-going. He's not stuffy like Clark Kent, although he's trying to get that way as he get older. He is usually fun-loving, funny, he takes life as it comes. Doesn't get worked up about, well, anything really, to him, "everything will be okay". Superman comes into the picture in two forms. The first is when he is caring for his parents, especially his mother. Superman has had an enormous amount of responsibility taking care of his mother in her deteriorating health condition since he was young. Throughout high school he had to watch over her while his father traveled for work and this continues to this day. Superman worries about his mother a lot but his powers are limited in helping her since the ultimate decisions for her care come from his father. Here his strength of caring can become a weakness as it wears on his mind. How do you turn off worrying about your mother who's health is slowly slipping? It is not possible.

Superman also makes appearances as an adrenaline rush. When important things need to get done, Superman flies onto the scene at the last minute to make everything okay. He is great at this style of entrance and, for the most part, things always work out in the end. I know it sounds like I'm talking about the comicbook/movie character but I am actually talking about my husband. Did you see in my introduction of myself that Wonder Woman is a planner? Have you noticed in Superman movies that there is damage that is done before Superman arrives to save the day? Well, in real life that damage has to be cleaned up. Wonder Woman does not enjoy cleaning and would rather avoid the situations all together. Meanwhile Clark Kent thinks everything will be okay and Superman will fly in to fix things when it's necessary. Do you see why my life is such an adventure? :)

So, Superman has one weakness, right? Kryptonite. Well, I'm going to give Wonder Woman the same weakness, however it's not the presence of it that causes us problems, it's the absence of it. "It" is money. Now, before you go get all religious on me about how "the love of money is the root of all evil", I'm not saying it would solve all of our problems. I'm also not saying that I can't live without it. I'm just saying having it would help but that is a story for another time.