If You Give A Mom A Muffin

If you give a mom a muffin,

She’ll want a cup of coffee to go with it.

She’ll pour herself some.

The coffee will get spilled by her two year old.

She’ll wipe it up.

Wiping the floor, she will find some dirty socks.

She’ll remember she has to do some laundry.

On the way to put the laundry in the washer,

She’ll trip over a garbage bag and bump her foot on the refrigerator.

Bumping into the refrigerator will remind her that she has to plan dinner
for tonight.

She will get out a pound of hamburger.

She will look for her cook book (101 Things To Make With A Pound Of
Hamburger).

The cookbook is sitting under a pile of mail.

She will see the phone bill which is due tomorrow.

She will look for her checkbook.

The checkbook is in her purse that is being dumped out by her two
year old.

She’ll smell something funny.

She’ll change the baby sitting next to her two year old.

While she is changing the baby the phone will ring.

Her two year old will answer it and then ‘accidentally’ hang up.

She’ll remember that she wants to phone some friends to come for a play date
and have some coffee on Friday morning.

Thinking of coffee will remind her that she was going to have a cup.

So, finally she will pour herself some.

And chances are…

If she has a cup of coffee…….

One of her kids will have just eaten the muffin that went with it!

by Kathy Fictorie
based on “If you Give a Mouse a Cookie” by Laura Numeroff