I don't want to be a SuperMom anymore, just Me their Mom

Writing I hope to express the point I want to and leave evidence that one of my most important goals of life is to be the best mother that I can be. I want to individually know them, understand, care, and watch over each of them and their personal needs. Having said that, I proceed.

I believe I and perhaps many women like me, have had the secret hope and have longed to be a Super MOM, yes do everything and everything good. Do more: give breakfast with homemade bread; make the Family Home Evening every monday and hopefully with a fresh from oven brownie; have a clean and glowing home; cooking more healthy and organic if possible; have our home eatable garden, and so on... We are in an over demand schedule, we run more than what our forces and means allow us (D & C). The matter is that falling into this self expectation of wanting to do more, we are cough into this vain trap, as a result we have less. Yes less of what is the most important and it is really transcendent, positive and has an everlasting impact on the soul of our children.
Then I understand that I need to reset my soul. In all conscience choose differently, choose a more excellent way, as the great Teacher says. And so I humbly internalize in my mind and heart than to do less is to do more, is choosing more.
As the great productivity leaders have tough us (Stephen Covey, FranklynCovey Leadership) among others), the ones who have lived and live with excellence, don't try to do everything, multiple projects at the same time, but they focus on doing what they are the best at, that is often what it motivates and excites them the most, at what they are passionate about, what fills them with life. Curious is to say so, because while I write these lines, ideas and images come to me of what is my own contribution to my children, mine is enthusiasm for life, for discovery, for learning and knowing, to be an explorer guide for them. But that's me. And you? What is who no one else can better give to your children than you? Good news , we can do this in different aspects of life. Physical, spiritual, intellectual, social-emotional. Instead of so many things to do, and do. Focus on our particular legacy. Best thing we have, the better, and all energy we devote to what it matters most. And the house, the chores, the food? We go forward according to our strength and means provided. But focused on what it matters the most is covered first.
I guess that is the satisfaction of who's life is based on what is important. I do not say that I am there, but yes I'm hungry to experience that.

I know that I am doing it well. And also that I can doit better, better for my kids, better for my husband, and above all also better for me. That kind of life one day at a time, focused on what is important and focused on what only myself can give them, it frees me, and I release the strenuous backpack or the Super Mom or SuperWoman costume. Instead I come out to light, the beauty and radiance of my own individuality, my own talents and their unique mother. That way I know I can delegate everything, or leave it for when I or someone can doit, but I don't delegate or procrastinate what only me can give at its best.
And doing so above all really love them, listen to them, seek to understand them, seek to hold them.

And remember my friend and I say this to myself too: Sleep enough, take good care of you, rests on brakes during the day, have time to smile, to sit back and relax. If my children see a happy Mom,I believe is the best thing I can do to ensure their happiness.
This is part of the life I want and I go for it.

I remember what I believe President Monson said, What do your children want for dinner tonight? They want you.

Changing the only thing I can change, myself.

With love,
Paola Núñez Soto