Secret Muscles

"Your Mom" jokes have taken on a new meaning for me this week. Nobody messes with my Mama, and she has the arm wrestling skills to prove it. Let me explain.
The Robbins family got together last Sunday for Will's baby blessing, a cute little bugger, and Finn and Emma's birthdays, one of those buggers is cuter than the other :) So naturally, we like to have a good time and we enjoy each other's company. We enjoy eating together, laughing together, talking, playing games together, and as of last Sunday, arm wrestling each other.
"Arm wrestling? Did I hear that right?" Yes indeed, folks your ears do not deceive you. Not only did we arm wrestle each other but MY MOM whooped us all. What the, secret muscles?
Let me set up the scenario for you. Michelle is the buff one of the family. She is going to be the next instructor at the gym. She lifts two mediums on biceps in our weight class. She beat me in no time flat and then said, "Oh come on, try this time!" Oh ........okay,....um ...next time I'll try.
Kari and I only lift a medium and a small on biceps in our weight class. I was secretly convinced that I was stronger even though we lift the same amount. That conviction changed last Sunday. Kari-the "fragile flower" put me and my medium and small on biceps to shame. sniff sniff-its true, I am the weakest link.
My Mom does maybe a medium on a good day, and thats only if she makes it to the gym! :) So where did these secret muscles come from? Here are a few of our theories:
Michelle is convinced that Mom "cheated". Oh please, Missy, you're just upset cuz those two mediums on biceps aren't doing jack squat! (Although, it did however, do enough to beat me)
Kari thinks Mom has the "mental edge" of being our mother and therefore can cream us all into the ground with her arm wrestling skills.
I, personally, believe it has to do with Mom's secret identity as a superhero. If you think about it, it makes sense. She can clean things like no one else can, she can find things that no one else can find, she can color like no one else can color (I was jealous of her coloring skills as a child, her people always had makeup on), she can cook like no one else can cook, and when she eats Lobster she can....well we'll keep that one on the downlow, and now she can arm wrestle like no one else can arm wrestle! I gotta give her props. She probably learned it from my Grandma Sara (who beat my cousin Jake in an arm wrestling contest, but that is a whole 'nother blog). So take your one medium weight on biceps Mom, you deserve it. I'll never underestimate your secret muscles again.