this morning i was interviewed for a local magazine that is running an article on "supermums" in its next issue. i am one of the three mums they are profiling as "supermum".
people often assume that quantity equals excellence when it comes to children. and while my kids are gorgeous little specimens, albeit of the non vegetable eating kind, when i am referred to as a supermum, i feel like i am a fraud.
i don't think i am a supermum, because i know so many mothers out there who i feel are better mothers than i am. they have not forgotten one of their children in the car and walked away 20 paces before being reminded by one of their other children that someone is missing.
they have not said, and i quote "oh just go away!" when one of the angels is being tiresome.
i am not a supermum. i am a normal mum trying to do a great job, but aren't we all? i have a larger than normal number of children, but that does not make me a supermum. it made me active ovary infertile girl, but not supermum.
amazingly, wonderfully, powerfully, my kids, at this impressionable age think i am the best. i don't know how or why, but my gratitude for their forgiveness, compassion and love abounds. my mistakes are massive, my errors in judgement huge, but they still think i am ideal.
grownups cant do it for me, my kids are the only ones who can make me feel like supermum.
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8 Replies to “what makes a supermum??”
I have always thought that you are a Supermom.. Enjoy 🙂
Love your Older sis xoxo
I think you and your mother are tied for first place.
Love to all…..Dad
I don’t know about supermums (partly because they’d be called supermoms here 🙂 ), but I do know about superfriends.
And on that, my dear? You rate high on the phrase.
xoxo
I remember cross-stitching a wee item for you which said, in part, “…. and they shall rise up and call me blessed.” And they do!! And I am with them 🙂
Much love, M xox
You are definitely a SuperMom in my world… and a SuperWife, SuperFriend, SuperL…..
My mom used to tell me when someone paid me a compliment and I was having a hard time taking it to just say “thank you, that’s me!”
Don your cape my friend…any mother of four is a supermom(smile) and any mother of four with three of them being triples is a double super mom
Love ya,lyns
…and you looked SuperHot when you came home from Lan Kwai Fung last night!
Thinking of the old TV show theme – ‘It’s a bird – it’s a plane . . . it’s Supermum!!!!!’