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This is sponsored content from BlogHer and ABC’s No Ordinary Family.

My wish? To have the laundry done, folded and put away on the same exact day. Every two days or so, I start three loads of laundry before lunch, each one is almost dried before school is out – sort of, but this is where I get messed up… three loads are never dry by the time the kids get home from school. And there lies the problem. It’s difficult to be attentive to the delicate dryer cycle, making sure I pull everything out and hang it up when it’s “not quite dry” so that there will be no ironing required. By then, instead, the four boys are home from school and I am busy making snacks, answering homework questions and dealing with dinner and play dates. Super speed power would also filter down to the morning hours, enabling me to have the lunches packed faster, and the breakfast dishes cleaned up sooner, so that I could pay bills at lightning speed too.

Speed in the laundry room would be my wish if I were given super speed like Stephanie Powell from ABC’s No ordinary Family, a new fall show. After 16 years of marriage, Jim (Michael Chiklis, The Shield Fantastic Four) feels disconnected from his workaholic wife, Stephanie (Julie Benz, Dexter), and two teenage children, Daphne (Kay Panabaker, Summerland) and JJ (Jimmy Bennett, Star Trek). To encourage family bonding time, Jim decides the family will join Stephanie on her business trip to South America. When their plane crashes into the Amazon River, they barely enjoy a moment to celebrate their survival before returning to the grind of everyday life. Each member of the family starts to show signs of new, unique and distinct super powers. (Check out their Facebook Page for behind-the-scenes updates.

Check out the trailer from the show:

But would these speedy chores make a super powered family? A family is made up of more than fresh laundry that is neatly folded, shirts hanging wrinkle-free, with enough time to spare to make the afternoon snack. Kids won’t notice if there are clean socks in their drawer as soon as they get home from school – but they do notice if you’re not there to hear the little snippets from their day – when they are ready to spill the news. If I were downstairs attending to the laundry, rather than them, they’d have to search me out; and maybe that would be too much effort, and they just wouldn’t. And what would I miss?

But some things just can’t be rushed. Mothering can’t be rushed. It takes time, in my house anyway, for the boys to relinquish their stories from the day. To sit with them long enough during a board game to build a connection, closeness. Otherwise, we will live in what the ABC trailer for the show, No Ordinary Family, says, “We were all living under the same roof, but in different worlds.” Speed? Yes, there isn’t a super mom out there that couldn’t benefit from that super power. Yet, some things, and the most important things, just can’t be rushed.

Because if we want to “always be a family, no matter what happens,” some things just cannot be rushed.

I’d love to hear how you think your life would change if you were to suddenly acquire super powers. You can read what other BlogHer’s are saying on Link to the BlogHer.com review/giveaway round-up page: BlogHer.com’s special offers page.

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