Maxi – Mum

It’s really not easy being a superhero and a single mother of three kids (Charlie, whose 3; Kevin whose 6 and Sophie whose 7) especially when you have to hide your secret identity from everyone.

I’m usually up at 5am, tidying the house and getting some washing up and ironing done, including my super costume, before I have to wake up my kids and make sure they’ve brushed their teeth and are dressed and that Kevin and Sophie have everything they need for school and then I’ve got their packed lunches to make, Kevin likes ham but Sophie prefers cheese spread, and chocolate cereal for Charlie, then I have to drop them off at school before taking Charlie to the nursery.

I often feel guilty as I drive away from the nursery, worrying about whether I should be spending more time with my kids rather than fighting crime or saving the world but then my super beeper goes and I hear the frantic voice of Police Commissioner Ethel telling me she needs help.

The other day, it was a gigantic mutant toddler that had swallowed a bottle of top secret growth formula and was rampaging through the city sticking things in its mouth like aeroplanes and busses.

I managed to get to the scene in time to save a plane load of screaming people but I was so tired that I actually fell asleep in mid-air and fell out of the sky.

I might have become pancake lady instead of Maxi-Mum if it hadn’t been for a passing, handsome superhero who caught me as I was plummeting to my doom.

He quite liked me at first; he started flirting with me but then I told him that I had three kids and he was off faster than a speeding bullet.

He sorted out the giant baby though which was nice of him and that meant I could get home and try and get some sleep but then it wasn’t long before I had to pick up Charlie from the nursery and the kids from school and I turned up wearing my super costume which I’d forgotten to change out of.

I just told my kids the truth, “I’m a superhero”, I said.

They didn’t believe me. “You have to be cool to be a superhero”, said Kevin.

But they all agreed that I really was a super mum.