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If you are familiar with the story If You Give A Mouse A Cookie, you
might appreciate this version.

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.
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 cook book (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.

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