If You Give a Mom a Muffin

My kids LOVE the book If You Give a Mouse a Cookie (by Laura Joffe Numeroff)

And have you seen the similar books, If You Give a Pig a Pancake, If You Give a Cat a Cupcake, If You Give a Moose a Muffin, If You Take a Mouse to School, If You Give a Pig a Party, and If You Take A Mouse to the Movies? So cute and favorites of my students when I was teaching first grade.

So the the other day I was cruising blogs while nursing the babe and found this CUTE poem:

If You Give A Mom A Muffin
by Kathy Fictorie

If you give a mom a muffin,
She’ll want a 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 bump into the freezer.
Bumping into the freezer will remind her she has to plan for supper.
She will get out a pound of hamburger.
She’ll look for her cookbook (“101 Things To Do 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 check book is in her purse that is being dumped out by her two-year-old.
She’ll smell something funny.
She’ll change the two year old’s diaper.
While she is changing the diaper, the phone will ring.
Her five-year-old will answer and hang up.
She’ll remember she wants to phone a friend for coffee.
Thinking of coffee will remind her that she was going to have a cup.
And chances are…
If she has a cup of coffee,
Her kids will have eaten the muffin that went with it.

I thought it was so funny, and described me perfectly (except that I’m not a coffee drinker). Some days I feel like all I do is run around doing little things here and there but that I never actually accomplish anything.  I’m sure many of you can relate. And last night at dinner when my husband asked, “so what did you do today?” It took me a second to realize he was just trying to find out about my day and not accusing me of doing nothing!

Anyway, this poem got me thinking about a fun gift idea  so I created a quick card in Photoshop. Then I grabbed one of the packages of muffins I recently bought (yay coupons!), tied a bow to it, and now I have a quick gift for one of my mommy friends. Actually, I think I’ll make up several of these!

If you’d like to make some of these quick gifts too, here is the flattened (JPEG) file. I created it as a 4×6 card, so it’s easy to send to the photo lab or print at home.

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