If You Give a Mom a Muffin
If You Give a Mom a Muffin,
She'll want a strong cup of coffee to go with it.
She'll pour herself some.
Her three year old will spill the coffee.
She'll wipe it up.
Wiping the floor, she'll find dirty socks.
She'll remember she has to do laundry.
When she puts the laundry in the washer,
She'll trip over boots and bumps into the box of Goodwill items.
Bumping into the Goodwill items will remind her she has to get these
boxes in the car, over to Goodwill and out of her basement.
When she puts the boxes in the car, she finds a bag of groceries she
forgot to bring into the house and this will remind her she has to cook dinner.
She'll get out the chicken breasts defrosting in the fridge.
She'll look for her cookbook (101 things to do with chicken).
The cookbook is sitting under a pile of mail.
She will see a movie she's meant to mail and the preschool bill, which is due tomorrow.
She will look for her checkbook.
The checkbook is in her purse that is being dumped out by her one year old.
She smells something funny.
She'll change the one year old's diaper.
As she changes the blow out, she realizes she needs more plastic bags and butt paste.
While she slathers on the paste, she realizes she brought the hand sanitizer down to the kitchen.
While she is throwing away the diaper and searching for the hand sanitizer, the phone will ring.
Her three year old will answer and hang up.
She'll remember she wants to phone a friend, not for coffee, but a very strong drink.
Thinking of drinking will remind her that she was going to have a cup of something,
in order to stay awake for the rest of the day.
And chances are, if she finds her cup of coffee, (which she has to reheat by now),
her kids will have eaten the muffin that went with it.
4 comments:
I love the poem. J, in particular, loves those books. Very appropriate.
Happy Mother's Day to you.
Happy Mother's Day Chris!! You are amazing!!
Chris....the video and poem ROCK! So true!
LOVED the poem! I also love ANita Renfroe. We saw her do that at the last Women of Faith conference we went to. It was hilarious!!!! and SOOO true.
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