grandma's chuckles - "You Have to be Brave to be a Super Hero!"

Eleven years ago when my oldest sweet grandson was four years old he was really into Super Heroes! He LOVED the VeggieTales movie,  The League of Incredible Vegetables  and he LOVED his Super Cape! He "flew" around my house singing, "♫♥♪ I am Super and I am here ♫♥♪ to save the day! ♫♥♪" He told me while he was a child he just pretended to be a Super Hero, but when he grew up he would be a Super Hero for real! Did I mention he had a "super" imagination?

One day while he was being "Super" he came over to me and said, "I'm Super and you can be Super Grandma!" I said, "Okay! My 'super power' will be Super Kisses and Hugs!" He let out a HUGE sigh and said, "Okay, but you HAVE to have a super power for when you fight bad guys, too." I said, "I don't know if I can fight bad guys." to which he replied, "You have to be brave to be a Super Hero."  

At this point I had a very strong feeling of where this conversation was heading, but went ahead and asked him when I had to be brave. He said, "You have to be brave when you are afraid of something, but it is okay because I will be there with you and I will help you!" I was pretty sure what he would say next, but went ahead and asked him; "What do I have to be brave for?" He said, "When you fight giant, robot spiders!!!"

You may not know this, but he did . . . I'm tremendously afraid of spiders - I don't even like to see pictures of them! So of course I said, "Fight giant, robot spiders???? I do not think I can do that!!!!!" To which he said, "You can do it because I will be there with you and I will help you be brave!" 

Of course I did the only thing I could do . . . I sighed a HUGE sigh and said, "Okay. I'll be brave." What else was I to say? And yes, we went and fought giant, robot spiders! He told me we were successful in our fight with these horrible creatures . . . and he said we were "brave"!!!! 

The things you have to do when you are a grandma!