Not Super Mom - Just Mom

I recently realized it's ok to NOT be Super Mom, at least it's ok to Just Be Mom some of the time.
There was a time in the not so distant past that I would have stayed up until 2am baking homemade cookies for my son's school party because I had to! Now that I'm Just Mom, I know it's ok to grab a bag of chewy chocolate chip cookies from the grocery store and send those instead (the kids like 'em just as well, if not more!). The guilt of being a working mom and trying to compensate for my own lousey childhood has matured, along with me, into an understanding that being involved, stable and aware is more important than being Martha Stewart.
I once came home feeling like a horrible mother because a stay at home mom I knew had been talking about how she liked to have a plate of warm cookies ready for her kids when they got home from school. Every chance I got, if I had taken a day off or was staying home with a sick kid, I would have that warm plate of cookies ready and waiting when my children walked through the door. Turns out, it didn't matter to them that much. Turns out too that stay at home mom had an affair that ended her marriage to the father of her children. So, they still get warm cookies but have to live in two homes. I think my kids would pick stable homelife over warm cookies any day of the week!
So, while I still tell my kids I'm Super Mom (and really, they never need to know otherwise) I know in my heart that I'm Just Mom and that's ok. Keeping my eye on the prize means keeping my family in my heart and as long as they get cookies it doesn't matter if I made them or not!