Flanagan Clan

My cousin, Amy, recently wrote a blog post about CAADD (Child Activated Attention Deficit Disorder), and gave the signs of manifestation. I have to admit that I suffer very strongly from this ailment. On most days I feel like I’m running around like a chicken with it’s head chopped off, going from one thing to the next without actually fully finishing any one task. Here’s a little poem I found last year around Mother’s Day, which really sums up my day. And people say being a housewife is a piece of cake…

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 three 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.
When she puts the laundry in the washer,
She’ll trip over some snow boots and bump into the freezer.
Bumping into the freezer will remind her she has to plan dinner for tonight.

She will get out a pound of hamburger.
She will look for her cookbook (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 two year old.
While she is changing the two year old the phone will ring.
Her four year old will answer it and hang up.

She remembers that she wants to phone a friend to come for coffee on Friday.
Thinking of coffee will remind her that she was going to have a cup.
She will pour herself some.

And chances are……
If she has a cup of coffee……
Her kids will have eaten the muffin that went with it

Author: Kathy Fictorie