Have you ever played Lego Star Wars?  The video game?  We love it so much at our house that sometimes the children act it out during their times of imaginative play.  Of course, they act out many video games– Super Smash Brothers, Cloning Clyde, Caster.  Sugar is always the princess character, Engineer the hero, and Spider is some lame-ish sidekick, like R2-D2. And somedays like yesterday, they pretend that they are in a video game and the main characters are themselves.

Now before I go on (I promise I am headed somewhere here) it needs to be noted that Lego Star Wars the video game has all kind of characters you can choose to play.  The main characters, of course are those you need to complete the game’s requirements, but if you have a lot of gold, you can buy characters.  Fun but useless characters like jawas or cantina performers.  Yesterday while the children were acting out their own game, the following conversation ensued:

Eng: Okay, we’ve got Sugar character, Engineer character and Spider character.
Sug: What about Mommy?
Eng: No, you have to buy her.
Me: (understanding what this implies) You have to buy me?
Eng: Yes.
Sug: Okay, let’s buy her.
Eng: No, I only want players that are going to WIN.

Do you know what this means?  He thinks his mama’s a loser.  Or maybe he just thinks I can’t win, like I don’t finish what I start.  Like I stink at cleaning the house.  Like I am bad a video games?  Like I am lame in so many countless throw-another-jawa-on-the-fire ways.  (Maybe I am reading too much into this?)  I am so not having any of that.

Oh, it’s on Little Man.  Bring it.  Bring it on. You are about to see just what this Mama can do.